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Have you ever met someone who was not who you thought they were? This has been happening throughout history. "America's Founder" Christopher Columbus is portrayed as a hero in history books but new studies have shown a different side of Christopher. Due to this evidence I believe that Columbus day should be revoked.
But should we really? I think that maybe we had started celebrating Columbus Day for the wrong reasons. Columbus finding North America was not it, but possibly so that President Roosevelt would be able to use the Italian American vote, that he had wanted. President Roosevelt saw this as an opportunity and he took advantage of it, which was a smart move.
In october, many schools, offices and factories are off for the day because that day is when Christopher Columbus discovered America! But some people do not leave their places of work because they believe that he was a ruthless killer! Here are some reasons why Christopher Columbus was honored for discovering the Americas and, left in the dirt for capturing and killing slaves. So let's start off with why he was honored for discovering the Americas. Christopher columbus was on his way to discover Japan and China but stumbled over another piece of land, North America!
Christopher Columbus should not be celebrated because he committed mass genocide, forced slaves, and wiped out an entire population. The first reason for why Christopher Columbus should not be celebrated is because he committed mass genocide against the Native Americans. “Endless testimonies...prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives…. But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder,” -Bartolome Las Casas, 1527.
Do you think Columbus day would be a day worth celebrating? On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus had found America. There are many reasons why Christopher's discovery is celebrated, and why people disagree to honor him. Mostly, everyone thinks Chris is a fantastic man because of exploring America. Some people think Christopher was a horrible person.
When I was younger I was under the impression that Christopher Columbus was a great man and that he discovered America. We celebrate Columbus day because we honor him for “discovering America”. From this new information that I have learned today, Christopher Columbus is not the man iv have been taught about.
Christopher Columbus isn’t worthy of a national holiday. For one thing, he slaughtered and killed Native Americans and brought over diseases as well. Also Colombus started the American holocaust such as the murder, torture, pillaging, robbery, kidnapping, and slavery of the native people. Additionally, he once said “They would make fine servants with fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” In the long run due to the slavery and murderings of the Native Americans Christopher Colombus isn’t worthy of a national holiday.
Have you ever thought about the origins of our holidays? Columbus day in particular has recently been controversial. Maybe the textbook version isn’t the same as the truth. The truth about Christopher Columbus provides evidence that Columbus day should be abolished. First off, he didn’t even care about any of the Native Americans.
Columbus, an Italian explorer, had set sail in 1492 working for Spain. When he arrived to the Americas, he did not know anything about it, so he felt the need to take over and be a tyrant. America should not celebrate Columbus Day because he terrorized the people of the Americas and did not even achieve any of the goals he set out for, to help Europe gain more knowledge. Columbus Day should not be celebrated due to his cruelty which includes rape, him killing and planning to obliterate all Natives. He had killed many Native Americans almost wiping them out in one generation, he set a plan to exterminate the Native Americans and he encouraged his men to rape the Native Americans.
I believe that, to this day, Columbus day should be celebrated. Although Columbus might not have done a lot of the amazing things we've said he's done, Columbus is still apart of our history and has still done some great things in the past. Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492. Although they later found this not to be true, Christopher is still a very important person to this society.
The 12th of October USA celebrated the Columbus Day. It’s a national holiday in many countries in the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus arrival and discovery of America, which happened on October 12, 1492. Columbus Day first became an official state holiday in Colorado in 1906, and became a federal holiday in the United States in 1937. Since 1970 (Oct. 12), the holiday has been fixed to the second Monday in October , Columbus day has been a very critical subject of very long debates across the United States of America since many years and until now as many considers him a killer and not a discoverer. If we re-read history carefully we will find that Christopher Columbus never set foot in the land that would become the United States of America.
In the article “Leif Erikson” , Leif Eriksson, who was the son of Erik the Red, is said to be the first European to set foot in North America. There are stories about how he truly discovered North America but one story says that he sailed off course on his way back to Greenland and ended up below Greenland in North america. Another story is he heard about the fertile land of North America by an icelandic man who had sailed past it years before so Leif thought it would be a good place to land his ship. This idea of Christopher Columbus truly
Have you heard anyone say, "Happy Columbus Day", or throw a party for this holiday. Most people just say, "Cool we have another day off". Their are now so many different variants of this holiday, that what's the point of keeping it Columbus Day for another name. Also, the sad part is that your celebrating an enslaver of Native Americans, and a very tyrannical person. Finally, the most surprising idea to comprehend out of all of this is that he didn't even discover The Americas, he discovered the Bahamas.
Columbus Day is one of the most controversial holidays in America. Columbus Day is celebrated in many of the countries in the Americas for the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the New World on October 12, 1492. He originally set out for sail for India under Kind Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. He made a total of four voyages between 1492 and 1498 where he explored Caribbean islands and areas of Central and South America. There is no argument that his “discovery” was a turning point in history, however many argue that his accomplishments have been oversimplified and glorified.
After reading Nannette Croce 's response to Columbus day Controversy. It seems to mean that Nannette is in a middle spot of whether she wants to celebrate it or not. She is with it because of her Italian-American descent but also conflicted because she knows how it affects her Indigenous friends. I fully understand where Nannette is coming from and I understand her reasoning for her choices. After reading and learning more about Columbus day, Do I think we should still celebrate it?
