Christopher Columbus Many people are talking about should Columbus Day should be a holiday. So I decided to tell you guys my point of view. should Columbus Day be a holiday?? I think that we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day. Here is one of my reasons because he brought additional diseases to the new world. In passage Columbus Controversy, paragraph 5 it states that “Age of exploration” Columbus led had the additional consequence of bringing new diseases to the New World which would,over time, devastate the native populations of many the New World islands and communities’’. So by reading that that 's telling me that he was the reason people had diseases. It also tells me that he brought diseases