celebrating Columbus Day?
He did nothing for this country, not even step foot on it. He was a monster in the body of man. He raped, enslaved and slaughtered many of the natives of the Carribean.
Why celebrate?
2006-07-14
08:13:51
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Noone discovered America. It was always here. As for the response about not remembering your history teacher talking about that, of course you would not remember. 99% of History taught in this country is from the Euro perspective. Lots of misinformation in our school systems.
2006-07-14
08:19:36 ·
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Dan B, you sound like a blubbering idiot. Although I suppose we are all guilty of that at one time or another.
As for your claims about Columbus, I've yet to see any proof that he directly or indirectly assisted in the formation of what is current day United States of America. It is amazing how ONE sided people's view of history is. Others have claimed that my view point is one sided but I can assure you I have done years of independent research(reading) and I have drawn MY OWN conclusion that NOTHING of Columbus is to be celebrated. No day off from work or sales in any store can change my opinion on that. So he sailed the effin ocean blue in 1492, big effin woop. Thats all anyone gets from being schooled on the man. And he proved to others that the world is not flat. However all the OTHER things he did (what I mentioned) are rarely if ever talked about. It is a vicious cycle of misinformation.
2006-07-14
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I am in total agreement with you.
Columbus was the George Bush of his day. He destroyed every country he touched.
He, his posse and all the diseases they brought to the west killed off the native peoples of my ancestral country.
And those who survive disease were slaughtered.
Indigenous peoples had never seen the type of genocide Europeans introduced to the so-called 'new world'.
They were evil then as much as they are evil now!
2006-07-14 08:21:00
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answered by Anonymous
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Columbus day is not "celebrated" it is remembered. The day is a memorial reminder of his life and exploits. Certainly no one celebrates the death of Martin Luther King Jr. on his holiday.......its a memorial day for that person.
As to why Columbus day exists at all. Well I think it has something to do with human nature. Humans are explorers. That's what we like to do. If you told someone that the moon had never been charted, you could expect a team would be sent up to draw a map or something. I would not be surprised to see a Niel Armstrong Day after he dies.
Sure Columbus did a bunch of bad stuff, but so did Cortez and we don't have a day for him. Trust me, we are not praising the sinners. We are remembering the larger than life people that did huge meaningful things that paved the way for the world we currently live in.
2006-07-14 08:21:52
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answered by Anonymous
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There are numerous historic reasons for this:
Columbus Day falls officially on October 12 and is celebrated on the 2nd Monday in October. The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the USA was held by the Tammany Society, also known as the Colombian Order, in New York on October 12, 1792, marking the 300th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Bahamas.
Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of Italian-American heritage. Columbus Day was first celebrated by Italians in San Francisco in 1869, following on the heels of 1866 Italian celebrations in New York City. The first state celebration was in Colorado in 1905, and in 1937, at the behest of the Knights of Columbus (a Catholic fraternal service organization named for the voyager), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set aside Columbus Day as a holiday in the United States. Since 1971, the holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October, the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada.
Some Italian-Americans feel pride in the day due to the fact that Christopher Columbus, an Italian sailor, sailed to the Americas. To some, it is awkward that Italian-Americans celebrate the day since Columbus did sail to the Americas under the name of Spain and not Italy.
2006-07-14 08:17:57
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answered by bazzmc 4
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Ahh revisionist history.
Columbus never set foot in on the continent of North America, true. But he did prove that the world is not flat, and that by sailing west a mariner would not fall off the end of the world.
Considering that the prevailing wisdom of the day said he was sailing to his certain death, yet he followed what he believed in and proved his detractors wrong, I would say he's pretty darn gutsy and deserves to be celebrated.
What conventional wisdom have you risked your life to challenge recently? Are you perfect that you can cast the first stone?
I'm guessing you haven't and aren't, respectively. But then again, neither am I. Neither are most of us. Which is why Columbus is celebrated.
2006-07-14 08:20:02
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answered by JoeSchmoe06 4
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o wow youre right he did nothing except for help create this country u are complaining about al tho it was indirect he still had a hand in it like it or not his news of a new world over the ocean changed history for the better as where would the world be with out the usa ?the world is amuch better place for having the usa . whos economy affects everyone else? this internet was created by the usa so were computers and just about anything else that makes our quality of life the envy of the world cause if it is not why are so many people from all over the world risking their lives to get here and americans immagrate out at the tiniest of numbers . cause no one lives as good as americans do that is a fact so why celabrate cuase he did change the world for the better and if you dont see that well keep your poltical correct blinders on
2006-07-14 09:24:14
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answered by Dan B 4
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Valid point! Actually, evidence points to the fact that the viking Leif Erikkson landed in what is now known as the Americas long before Christopher Columbus.
One could say Christopher had a better publicist than Leif! LOL! But honestly, it comes down to that! There was much more fanfare and publicity around Christopher's trek across what was thought to be a flat world than when Leif struck out to find greener pasture.
2006-07-14 08:32:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Actually, Vespucci didn't "discover" the Americas, he made it to the Western Coast and confirmed that they were indeed seperate continents not connected to Asia. Most people at the time believed that the Pacific Ocean was just the other end of the Atlantic and Columbus had reached the "Indies"
2006-07-14 08:23:27
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answered by Roark 1
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We're not actually celebrating Christopher Columbus. Most of us know that he didn't do anything good for this country. We're just celebrating the idea of our country being discovered by the white man. If only they had been a little nicer to the natives, though... But we're all ashamed of that (well, most.)
[marshmallow]
2006-07-14 08:18:29
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answered by Anonymous
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Very interesting. I researched this in Wikipedia. So, if the Spaniards started slavery, why are not Mexicans chastised by the blacks and only people with white skin?
It was a cruel world back then. We celebrate because his "discovery" was the beginning America as we know it. Venezuelan politicians can do what they want to win votes but America should celebrate its discovery.
2006-07-14 08:16:01
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answered by Texas Cowboy 7
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My family celebrates Amerigo Vespucci day on March 9th. It's um, for the most part, just us and people that want free food but we're slowly spreading the word. He was the one that discovered the Americas... *copies and pastes from his wiki*
"Vespucci's real importance for history may well not lie in his discoveries per se, but in his letters, whether or not he wrote them all himself. From these letters, the European public learned about America for the first time; its existence became generally known throughout Europe within a few years of their publication."
2006-07-14 08:17:21
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answered by Anonymous
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Why celebrate what? Columbus? So what are you asking? Why we observe Columbus Day? Or, why the United States was formed as a nation?
2006-07-14 08:18:20
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answered by Smoothie 5
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