I don't think we should celebrate Columbus day. WHy? You can't discover a land where people are already staying there, then come and move all your people on that land and call it America. Thats got to be illegal.
2006-06-15 08:09:53 · 11 answers · asked by dqchild 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I agree w/ you 100%. Christopher Columbus stole the land from the Native Americans and brought many diseases.
I don't think we should celebrate Columbus day and that we should write the politicians in Washington about it.
2006-06-15 08:17:21 · answer #1 · answered by sandiegogal2002@yahoo.com 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I often wonder why Americans celebrate Columbus Day, not only because it celebrates a man who instigated genocide but also because Columbus didn't even land in what we now call the United States. He landed in the Caribbean Islands.
Many native people go into mourning on Columbus Day, Independence Day and Canada Day and with good reason. What happened to them was sick and wrong and should never, ever be forgotten.
2006-06-15 08:17:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally disagree with you, he was the one who basically let the world know about this place, even though he didn't know it was new, if somebody has the cure for cancer but doesn't tell anybody about it, then there really isn't a cure for cancer because nobody knows about it, that was a tough journey back then to travel the Atlantic ocean to a new continent, give the guy some credit! jeez schools are teaching kids all of this crap these days, leif ericson was here before then but never let the rest of the world know,,,,,,
and before that people all over the world were taking over countries, why is America so different,,,, only the strong survive, thats how societies have been formed for thousands of years, if the native americans couldn't defend themselves because Europe had better technology thats life and history, it happens and happened all the time
2006-06-15 08:15:44 · answer #3 · answered by AFwife 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's European ehtnocentrism, Europeans wrote the history books, that's why. And the name America itself isn't all so devious. The name comes from an Italian Explorer named Amerigo Vespucci, from historical accounts he was a very distinguished and honoroable man.
2006-06-15 08:16:42 · answer #4 · answered by mrpolk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know right? I have also thought the same thing. Humans are so fickle. People were already living where he supposedly 'discovered' and we give him credit for that. How empty is that?
2006-06-15 08:15:41 · answer #5 · answered by Aryeebebe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason we give George W. Bush the credit for liberating Iraq.
2006-06-15 08:14:21 · answer #6 · answered by Jerry T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a certain race of people ( wont say who) who have a history of taking things from other races and taking credit for things other races have done.
2006-06-15 08:13:52 · answer #7 · answered by mamacita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For quite some time they were regarded more as animals that we had the 'Manifest Destiny' from God to conquer and subjugate.
2006-06-15 08:12:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
I totally agree with you.
2006-06-15 08:11:29 · answer #9 · answered by lynn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
totally agree!! that's what we native americans been saying for years!!!
2006-06-15 08:14:34 · answer #10 · answered by browneyedmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋