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Question

an Italian actor says once , in a movie : colombos discoverd America ? ? What about the Indians ?
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Answer 1

While what you say is true, that there were well over a million Native Americans just in what is today the United States, the reason an Italian actor would say that "Columbus discovered America" is that from his perspective, from the point of view of the Italians (of which Columbus was one) Columbus was the first person, (an implied, Western European person) to visit America and the New World.

We choose selective truths in life and history all of the time ... a person may be cooking in their own kitchen and suddenly realize the perfect time and temperature to cook a hard-boiled egg. Did they "discover" this? For them yes they did. They learned something they did not know before. But did they really "discover" it? No way! Hundreds of people, even thousands and ten thousands of people already know it ...

Does that work?

Answer 2

The Indians were nothing like an homogenous group. They were tribes, of smaller, or larger size and didn't think in terms of America. They thought in terms of the land
and used it as their tribal customs and style of life dictated.

So in a very real sense they had nothing to do with America.

America is a very old term and goes back to Amerigi Vespucci. Columbus thought he discoveed Asia.

His discovery was real enough from the European point of view.

From the "Indian" point of view there was nothing to discover. It was home.

Maggie

Answer 3

Have we got such question? What was the question exactly? Please be clear.