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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- w7년 이하it should be columbus day.
- constance 7년 이하indigenous people day
- Randon Guy7년 이하I feel bad for indigenous peoples and NOT COLUMBUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ghostninja2347년 이하I think Columbus is just fine it's own way.
- Joel7년 이하Yes I believe it should be named different
- alien7년 이하indigenous people day is the bestes name ever
- Xx ali a xX7년 이하fun
- Pete7년 이하The King & Queen of Spain send an Italian guy to find a new way to INDIA and he accidentally runs into the Americas, not knowing the American continents were even there. His men accidentally infect a native population with diseases they had no resistance to. However, he and his men DID enslave Native Americans. Primarily, however, it was the Spaniards and Portuguese and English and French and Dutch who came AFTER him that decimated the Native populations of both North & South America. So WHY BLAME HIM??? I fail to see the logic. Why not simply advocate for a separate Indigenous People's Day to HONOR the Native American contributions to our world, rather than spread hate to a long-dead Italian who had no original intention of harming a whole population before he left Spain??? It just doesn't make sense to me.
wolfdog7년 이하@pete you worded that perfectly. Wish I could follow you :'(. And, yes Europe did enslave people but yknow we're good now -_- Why cant we just make a separate day for NA? Why does it have to be like this. If Columbus found India first, he was probably not going to enslave them. Because ASIA traded with EUROPE. Especially China. So, I kinda refuse to believe Columbus wanted to go slay some people. On top of that, do you guys really think 1 guy could destroy a million people. *facepalm*- wolfdog7년 이하EXACTLY DUDE!! AFTER ALL, WE GOT THANKSGIVING! (And Portuguese are awesome fyi. Went to Portugal myself.)
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