Anyway, to the question at hand - so, I'm not American and it won't affect me, since we don't celebrate it, anyway. As far as I know, there was debate about whether it was right, morally so, to celebrate Columbus Day, given the slavery side of things that occurred when he landed in what became America.
I know a little bit about it and, funnily enough, I actually saw it in a South Park episode. Lmao.
My honest opinion is that it happened so long ago that it would seem a shame to stop stop having a holiday over it. Myself, I love holidays when I'm normally working all the time. Of course, I can completely understand why people would choose not to celebrate it, as it is technically celebrating one of the dark pieces of American history. But yeah, I'd personally choose the day off work over such a moral dilemma. Lol.
Yeah I'm sure that Native Americans are thrilled about an annual celebration dedicated to the beginning of their genocide and the destruction of their culture
We have to ask: what exactly is Columbus Day celebrating?
It's not the discovery of the Americas, obviously - that happened millenia beforehand. So is it the "discovery of the Americas by white people"? Implicit in that sentence is "the start of colonisation". Ie. The start of a process defined by disposessing Native Americans from their lands and the erasure of most of their culture. A process that involved slavery and the genocide of millions. Take a look at link before European colonisation. Those were entire nations - with their own laws, languages, link, culture - that were wiped out (or else nearly wiped out) in the space of a few centuries. The world lost so many people, and millenia-old customs/knowledge with them, in a shockingly short amount of time.
Columbus brought the subjugation and murder of countless African and indigenous peoples, and the Vikings discovered America long before he did. Let's replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day.
Anyway, to the question at hand - so, I'm not American and it won't affect me, since we don't celebrate it, anyway. As far as I know, there was debate about whether it was right, morally so, to celebrate Columbus Day, given the slavery side of things that occurred when he landed in what became America.
I know a little bit about it and, funnily enough, I actually saw it in a South Park episode. Lmao.
My honest opinion is that it happened so long ago that it would seem a shame to stop stop having a holiday over it. Myself, I love holidays when I'm normally working all the time. Of course, I can completely understand why people would choose not to celebrate it, as it is technically celebrating one of the dark pieces of American history. But yeah, I'd personally choose the day off work over such a moral dilemma. Lol.
Christmas
Halloween
Thanksgiving
Easter
New Years
Every other holiday I could care less about, tbh.
We have to ask: what exactly is Columbus Day celebrating?
It's not the discovery of the Americas, obviously - that happened millenia beforehand. So is it the "discovery of the Americas by white people"? Implicit in that sentence is "the start of colonisation". Ie. The start of a process defined by disposessing Native Americans from their lands and the erasure of most of their culture. A process that involved slavery and the genocide of millions. Take a look at link before European colonisation. Those were entire nations - with their own laws, languages, link, culture - that were wiped out (or else nearly wiped out) in the space of a few centuries. The world lost so many people, and millenia-old customs/knowledge with them, in a shockingly short amount of time.
Soooo - what exactly is Columbus Day celebrating?
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