Why Columbus Day Should Not Aboling The Columbus Day?

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Columbus Day is a holiday widely celebrated throughout the Americas. It is a holiday commemorating the voyage, Christopher Columbus made for when he landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. “Christopher Columbus was an Italian-born explorer who set sail in August 1492, bound for Asia with backing from the Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.” His voyage was so successful that when he returned to Spain, he came with goods that the Europeans had never seen. The discovery of new merchandise brought about the Age of Exploration and in 1937, October 12th was officially named Columbus Day and nationally celebrated in the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

We celebrate Columbus Day every year since 1937. He traveled from Spain to North America trying to find the Northwest passage on August 3rd, 1492. He failed to find the passage ,but instead he found new land. People think as him as a hero ,but most people haveńt heard of the things he had done. People now of today are still debating whether or not if he should have a holiday. Celebrating Columbus Day shouldn't happen. He did horrible things to the natives, children, and countless other people. He shouldn’t have a holiday as it will be shown multiple times and again.

Columbus Day shouldn 't be a holiday anymore because all the Indians he enslaved and killed during his voyage. Columbus had made a promise to bring back slaves, gold, copper, and girls to be used for sex. According to A Patriot 's History ... about 56 million people were killed

There has been a heated discussion about changing columbus day to native peoples day. This argument for getting rid of columbus day is flawed and quite hypocritical. This group Is claiming we should get rid of columbus day due to the fact he killed and enslaved the native people of the nations he visited. Christopher columbus and his men did kill and enslave the native people but, that was normal for that time period. Also how could Christopher columbus kill so many with less than 200 men? The answer is simple, he joined the ongoing tribal warfare that was taking place at the time. The tribes there already had mass graves, slaughtered and enslaved each other. This didn’t just start when columbus came around, the aztecs were

America should still celebrate Columbus Day, even though he was in charge for killing thousands of innocent people he still did have the right idea and stuck with it to find new land and gold to make spain richer, himself too. He had to beg and beg for the king and queen to give him ships for along time, 1 year exactly, once he was granted it he put so much time, his whole life, to find what he didn't know was actually real or there. Even though Amerigo Vespucci found the actual land, Columbus was the one who had the right idea and gave Vespucci the idea to go searching for it. Without Columbus no one would have found it or even knew it was there. Some people think that it shouldn't be counted because he did get innocent people killed, many

Some people in the United States believe that Christopher Columbus was an evil man who just waltzed into the “Indies” and took advantage of its indigenous people. In fact, Los Angeles, California just officially changed Columbus Day in the city calendar to “Indigenous Peoples Day.” They were not the first to change it however, Denver, Albuquerque, and Seattle have all changed the holiday to Indigenous People’s Day.

Some reasons why I think Columbus Day should be changed is because Columbus was treating Natives with violence and put them into slavery. Another reason is that he forced the Natives to convert to Christianity. The final reason is that he introduced new, life-changing diseases.

First of all, I believe that we should keep Columbus day is because he helped establish America as a place for the Europeans to travel to. Even though he thought that he had partially circumnavigated the Earth around to India, his voyage was essential in opening the way for European explorers during the Age of Exploration. This eventually led to colonies being settled in America and eventually the founding of the independent country of the United States of America. The voyages also helped the economy of Europe.

Christopher Columbus sailed for Spain in 1492 and claimed all islands around San Salvador looking for gold. Spain eventually sent Columbus back to create an Empire. America should not celebrate Columbus Day because of Columbus’ cruel punishments towards others, the way he influenced today's world, and the way he did not prove anything new. Christopher Columbus caused cruel punishment by cutting peoples hands off, making dogs attack the Native Americans, and by silencing the Native Americans. Columbus Day should not be celebrated because he influenced today's world negatively through slavery,stereotyping, and genocide. Finally, Columbus did not prove anything new because people already lived in the new world, he was not the first non-american

Many argue that Christopher Columbus doesn't deserve to be celebrated because he was a murderer and rapist, but because of Columbus we get to call America our home. Although he wasn't the first person to discover America he did take action and bring our men here, he began trading, and bridged the gap between the Old and New World. If it weren’t for Columbus, America wouldn’t be what it is today, and would have taken a different turn. Columbus should continue to be celebrated this day for his

The first reason why columbus day should be banned or changed is Christopher Columbus didn't actually discover America. Where he did land is in a unknown Caribbean island.Secondly during his interactions with the “indians” he used them for slavery and forced the Native Americans to convert to Christianity.Finally the last reason that Columbus Day should be banned or changed is that during the “age of exploration”, Columbus brought many different diseases to the native

"Should the United States celebrate Columbus Day?" In my opinion, the United States should celebrate Columbus Day because it is celebrated as a day when America was discovered. It is a part of history that we can not ignore. While I realize that we should not celebrate a day that marked the start of a massacre and bloodshed for decades to come, I cannot help but think that behind most revolutions and wars in history, blood has been shed. In addition, I feel that we do not celebrate Columbus Day to mock anyone or to accept the crimes of Christopher Columbus, but rather we celebrate it as a day our roots in America began. In addition, our morals are different than what people thought of as acceptable back then. Who are we to judge the actions done by someone else? We have neither lived in that time period nor were we raised the way they were. We were taught what they were taught. It is undeniable that without Columbus, much of what we have today may have not existed. Of course, this by no means show that I encouraging the way he treated the Natives, but rather stating that this is a indubitable part of our history that we should not be so ashamed of

When I was younger , I was taught that Christopher Columbus “sailed the ocean blue , in 1492”. I was taught to think of a hero ; The man who discovered America. Columbus day to me was just a day off , where I didn’t have to go to school. I feel that a fair amount of Americans today think of Columbus day the same way. I think very few people actually take the time

We celebrate many holidays for what they mean to us and their message. They can also be accomplishments and historical events such as Black History month. However a certain holiday that should be celebrated has many controversies surrounding it, Columbus Day. A day about Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the Americas. It should be celebrated as if he were never to set sail the Americas wouldn’t be in it’s current state. Americas was completely undeveloped before Columbus’s arrival and Columbus had many notable accomplishments.