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I keep wondering..
2007-10-08 04:58:24 · 7 answers · asked by peruviangurly 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I suppose that Wes is joking when he says Columbus was English, he was an Italian (although Italy didn't exist as a country at the time) but he undertook his voyage in order of the Spanish king. He was the one who discovered the Americas for the Europeans at that time, of course the Norse had been in New Foundland and Greenland before, but there was hardly knowledge about that outside of Scandinavia. Also there were no maps left.
So for Europe this discovery was very important, and since most people living in the Americas nowadays are from European descent it is celebrated there. The native Americans who came thousands of years earlier by passing the Bering street may see it as a bad thing, and maybe it is, but had America not been discovered the world would look very different today.
2007-10-08 05:12:59 · answer #1 · answered by Steven Z 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Vikings have been in Maine approximately 5 hundreds years earlier Columbus landed interior the Caribbeans. in spite of the undeniable fact that, we don't comprehend the chief of the Vikings, we do comprehend Columbus grow to be the chief of his Portuguese day holiday. So we've a acceptance to place to the form. That on my own is robust adequate to declare a holiday, Columbus Day.
2016-12-14 11:08:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MY FAMILY doesnt, he killed off like whole nations, took the americans(native americans or indians 4 those who are really dumb) land, and did much more horrible stuff. if you look it up, christopher columbus, on the internet, im sure you can find all the stuff he did. when his men did 'good' work, he rewarded them with 10-12 year old girls to rape! he is a horrible person!
2007-10-08 06:12:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it was to honor the incredible hardships that Columbus had to endure both to reach this country and in supporting his hypothesis that the earth was round.
Unfortunately, the vikings and potentially others had beat him here and others had proposed a spherical earth.
2007-10-08 05:03:10 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree !! I don't have an answer but realistially, this place belonged to the natives, and we celebrate the fact that columbus took it away ?!?!
2007-10-08 05:07:45 · answer #5 · answered by gyps 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because they want to recognize the 1st english guy in charge of finding the americas
2007-10-08 05:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
personally i think its because there are quite a few italian americans and its kinda their holiday
2007-10-08 05:09:15 · answer #7 · answered by fallenxx7 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋