Columbus Day Or Indigenous Peoples' Day? You Decide!
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Columbus Day, which is celebrated annually on the second Monday of October to honor the Italian explorer credited with “discovering” the Americas, has always been somewhat of a controversial holiday. That’s because while Christopher Columbus stumbled upon what we now call the Caribbean on October 12, 1492, he never set foot on the mainland – even on his subsequent three journeys. Besides, North America had already been “discovered” by the Native Americans, who had been living there for many generations.
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verynamyname2년 이상i don't like Columbus. yet like half the USA is like"he is so good and cool! he is the only way we know we know the Americas" like i think we could find america and its thousands of natives in 400 years.
playstationxmas4년 이하Italian Heritage Day might be cool, but I'm Italian, so I might be a bit biased 🙂.- playstationxmas4년 이하No more Columbus Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wolfy_blue약 4년I actually did a project about CC (Christphor Columbus) and he did do a lot of bad things and no good things so I say we don't celebrate Columbus day.- playstationxmas4년 이하Yes! No more Columbus Day!
x_goddess_x약 4년Yeah! He just wanted money and things. Greed can take you over. Everyone says "He's so good, let's celabrate."- wolfy_blue약 4년He slaved people and was very greedy
aila4년 이상I don’t know that celebration
thecliquegirl4년 이상In my family we do not celebrate him at all.- thecliquegirl4년 이상I don't celebrate him at all in my family.
- thecliquegirl4년 이상We don't celebrate him at all in my family. We don't like him at all
venom1313135년 이상We aren't celebrating Columbus because he was a nice guy, we're celebrating him because he sailed to America, and introduced Europe to America, one of the most monumental events in human history! If he hadn't done that, things would not be as they are today. For these reasons (and the one I poster earlier) I think it should continue to be called Columbus Day!- venom1313135년 이상I don't really think it matters how 'bad' he was because 1. That was how people thought at the time 2. Regardless of his purposes, without his 'discovery' (Because vikings were actually the first people to sail to North America) Europeans would not have come to America until much later (excluding Vikings) 3. Columbus Day was a celebration of the 'discovery' of America by Europe, so why would we change it to a celebration of native people?!