Columbus day, too me is truly a pointless holiday. We celebrate Columbus Day and the discovery of america and we are always told that Christopher Columbus discovered america and all these great things about him, but more of the stuff we here is completely historically inaccurate. So it's slightly baffling to me why we have a holiday for him considering he didn't do much..
Columbus was trying to find a path the the West Indies for trading that would make him rich. He wasn't trying to find the new world, they didn't even realize how big the world was. Funny thing is when he went back he was still trying to prove his calculations and he said the world was shaped like a pear. Besides him being stubborn the fact that every one says he discovered america's is completely wrong. One: he landed in the Caribbean, not actually America.; Two: The Asiatic Peoples that who we call Native Americans had already been living there for some time. Just cause They didn't know people lived in the other hemisphere of the world should not mean that when we found out about it that it was the "discovery of the new world" when it was already there with people happily living there. Needless to say the historical and political incorrectness of this holiday just adds to the 'stupid american' stigma that we already have.
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