{"id":4642,"date":"2023-09-19T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2023-09-19T16:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:29:50","slug":"student-shares-why-its-important-to-remember-hispanic-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/19\/student-shares-why-its-important-to-remember-hispanic-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Student shares why it&#8217;s important to remember Hispanic Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Over the next few weeks, people with Hispanic and Latino heritage will celebrate their respective independence days during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hispanic Heritage Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hispanic Heritage Month is a time of celebration for Hispanic and Latino Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Growing up, especially in high school for a lack of a better term, it was always very overlooked,&#8221; said student Ricardo Valencia. &#8220;As I get older really it means more and more to me because I see that more people care about it and that brings happiness and joy for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valencia&#8217;s parents are Hispanic but he was born in California. His parents made it a point to help Valencia remember his heritage through different cultural acts like Day of the Dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Fact: The observation started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover a 30-day period.<\/p><cite>hispanicheritagemonth.gov<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Spanish being my first language,&#8221; Valencia explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m always involved in the culture. My mom makes sure that I participate in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Valencia family believes that Hispanic Heritage Month is not a celebration of them but of others around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Both my parents being Mexican-born and me being American-born, there&#8217;s a little bit of a disconnect there in in the terms of what a Hispanic Heritage Month means to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valencia believes it&#8217;s important for non-Hispanic people to learn about Hispanic culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The second most spoken language is Spanish and I believe the Mexican population and Hispanic in general is growing in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hispanic Heritage Month will last through Sunday, Oct 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Over the next few weeks, people with Hispanic and Latino heritage will celebrate their respective independence days during Hispanic Heritage Month.<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic Heritage Month is a time of celebration for Hispanic and Latino Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growing up, especially in high school for a lack of a better term, it was always very&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/09\/19\/student-shares-why-its-important-to-remember-hispanic-heritage-month\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1146],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}