When I am posed with the question “to what extent should I as a citizen respond to how Christopher Columbus colonized Canada” I do not find it that difficult because I honestly do not agree with most things that he was associated with. A few points that I would like to use to “drive my opinion home” are his greed for getting paid, the conditions that he put his slaves through and his overall treatment of the Aboriginal people that he met.
One thing that was Christopher's first downfall was his greed for gold- or as they called it back then, cheddar. The only reason he went on his 1492 expedition in the first place was because he wanted to have more money. As a child, he did not have the richest family and he grew up in the middle class household.
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Even though he is said to have discovered Canada first- which he actually did not, Leif Eriksson found it over 600 years before Columbus- it still does not excuse all of the horrible acts he committed to get there. The thing that really bothers me about this whole thing is that he is commemorated as a hero even though that is the last thing that a person should call him. He has his own federal holiday in the states and within the Catholic community there is a club known as the Knights of Columbus, this group is dedicated towards helping out the Catholic communities. It makes me really agitated that he has his own holiday and a group benefited from the good of all for being a destructive slave trader who had no respect for anyone but himself. The few examples that I have shown above are just a few points that I believe are going to prove my stance on this issue/subject. We as a collective of global citizens should do our best to reward those who have done good, and not reward those who have done bad. In my personal opinion, Christopher Columbus is being rewarded for years of slave trade, murder and even deceit. As this collective of people, I believe that we should change all of the ways we celebrate him with something that counters his wrong-doings. Why not celebrate those who he heavily punished for all those many years, the