Why are we celebrating him for something he didn't do? It sure isn't because he discovered America. . . . After all, what was one of the first things he found here? PEOPLE!!!! THAT'S WHAT!!! How could he have discovered someplace where the Native Americans had been living for thousands of years before he even exsited?? All were doing is just giving him a pat on the back for trying. . . . someone on this site had the nerve to say that Kwanzaa was a stupid made-up holiday. Let me say this now. . . .
KWANZAA HAS NOTHING ON COLUMBUS DAY!!!
All right i'm done now. . .
By the Way if you have a smart remark for this question, don't bother to answer. . . .Think-Q very much.
2006-06-29 19:42:23 · 14 answers · asked by sportyspice_rogue 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
No, I don't think it is pointless. It's a part of history. History set the pathway for the future. In the event that Christopher Columbus didn't set sail for the New World, how many people would of still believed that the Earth was flat? What would of happened if Ferdinand Magellan didn't sail? We wouldn't have the Strait of Magellan. What would of happened if the first Pilgrims didn't land on Plymouth Rock?.... If you take a closer look at history, and the farther you go back you will see how it began... A person who took that first "step" into believing that nothing is impossible.
2006-06-29 20:03:56 · answer #1 · answered by luckythe4leggdspider 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Columbus Day = celebration of the 'Europeanization' of America. What's to celebrate? Depends on who you talk to. Don't know, but Italian-Americans are sure fond of it and it does fall at just the right time in early October when one could use a little R&R long-weekend. Not intedning any "smart remarks" just stating the way it stands in modern USA. If they took away Columbus Day then I think they'd have to plug some new holiday in that time-slot.
2006-06-29 19:51:21 · answer #2 · answered by Signilda 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i do think it's pointless, n i think ur absolutely right, it does cheat the Native Americans out of their right to claim being here first. i live in alabama, n saying that Columbus 'discovered' america would be like me going over to Georgia and saying 'i found it' when there r already millions of ppl there. i think, personally, that saying Columbus 'discovered' America,(which he didn't even do even if u take the Native Americans out of the picture, he never discovered America, he landed on San Salvador and Hispanola), is dehumanizing to the cultures that were already present for hundreds of thousands of years, well established cultures that had their own history, their own langauges, and their own religions, many of them in many ways much more civilized than the Europeans.
and for my friend who said Columbus was the first guy to dare think the world was round, he/she is mistaken. the first modern globe was made in 1492, a few months prior to Columbus' departure. they already knew the world wasn't flat.
2006-06-29 23:42:37 · answer #3 · answered by kelleygaither2000 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Navajo tribe doesn't observe Columbus Day. We work 8 to 5.
2006-06-30 05:06:46 · answer #4 · answered by germaine_87313 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
another dummy that couldnt discover his way 2 india, thats who, and the in person-friendly words reason he did it really is cuz he didnt opt to commute by the middle east he pronounced"i'd particularly sail off the sting of the frickin international than manage those *******" and yeah i imagine columbus day is stupid, ppl were already right here so he got here across jack shlt, oooh some one took a vacation on a deliver lets celebrate it doesnt say contained in the bible the international is round it says fairly the different even as it refers back to the 4 corners of the earth, flat international has corners round a million doesnt
2016-10-13 23:46:27 · answer #5 · answered by filonuk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that COLUMBUS DAY is one of the stupidest holidays the the USA has!! Columbus was a thief rapist & a murder. He & his men stole land from the Native Americans raped there women & murder the men who interfeared. What is there to celerbrate?
2006-06-30 02:04:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Americans want to celebrate pointless holidays and they want to take day off from work.
2006-06-29 19:46:45 · answer #7 · answered by dewdropinn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without Columbus, u would not be here asking this question, yahoo would not be here, bush and his bashers on yahoo, Clinton and AL gore, Kerry etc would not be here running for a job, osama would have no twin towers to destroy and all illegal Mexicans would have no place to go illegally, so many ifs. if Columbus did not come here USA would be like Mexico and nobody wants to come here, not even Mexicans as there is no need for cheap labour.
2006-06-29 19:54:39 · answer #8 · answered by gentileworld 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
... and not only that, he thought he was in India, for crying out loud, and called the Native Americans "Indians". For some strange reason, nobody thought to correct that mistake, so we still talk about "Red Indians". How dumb is that?
2006-06-29 22:31:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, why should the whole country celebrate the birthday of some city in Ohio???
2006-06-29 19:45:41 · answer #10 · answered by Mark W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋