2006-10-08 18:44:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
don't know how people can say Columbus discovered America when people were living here for thousands and thousands of years.That would be like me heading to Austrailia and saying I discovered a new land..lol. And for the record the Vikings made it to the Americas before Columbus.
2006-10-09 01:10:46 · answer #1 · answered by scissortail 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that Columbus Day has been celebrated for centuries to show that on that day Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean in search of India but ended up in the Caribbean's.
2006-10-10 11:46:27 · answer #2 · answered by Sarah E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad that Columbus screwed up and found this Continent.
some of my cousins that come from a indigenous heritage aren't so happy but let's face it , their ancestors were still living in the stone age and didn't even have the wheel , I think that Columbus finding America was a positive for the world.
2006-10-08 20:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Vikings have been in Maine approximately 5 hundreds years in the previous Columbus landed in the Caribbeans. besides the undeniable fact that, we don't understand the chief of the Vikings, we do understand Columbus became the chief of his Portuguese day holiday. So we've a acceptance to place to the progression. That on my own is sturdy sufficient to declare a trip, Columbus Day.
2016-12-26 13:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz this is when columbus landed at america or was it what he thought was the west indies but it really turned out to the bahamas. but anyway he reached somewhere on that day and became famous for what he really didn't find but what was already lived upon.
2006-10-08 18:46:38 · answer #5 · answered by glyph06 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are all the holidays..days? Why not Columbus Week!!
2006-10-08 18:48:57 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Columbus did not discover America and he was barbaric to say the least, who gives a rat's a.s.s.(sorry just my opinion, I won't be celebrating!!)
2006-10-08 18:54:55 · answer #7 · answered by tamara.knsley@sbcglobal.net 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because of the misconeption, that he discovered America. But if you think about it, or at least about what the history books say about that man and his discovery, which he thought was America, was actually South America. I think, though, that a lot of us celeberate it because the goverment wants it to be observed, and the schools want it to be celebrated, too.
2006-10-08 18:54:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey don't look a gift horse in the mouth just enjoy youself
2006-10-08 18:48:03 · answer #9 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason we celbrate MLK day. Paid day off.
2006-10-08 18:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋