Columbus Day, a day that has been honored and celebrated for hundreds of years. A day to celebrate an explorers honor of discovering the new world. Globalization happened and allowed for cultures to cross. The columbian exchange changed the lives of the Europeans and Americans. They created new societies in Americas replacing the old. It brought about agricultural growth and even population growth. As it has been said some may agree Columbus day should be celebrated, but I disagree.
In the book Winona LaDuke states, "Columbus was a perpetrator of genocide..., a slave trader, a thief, a pirate, and most certainly not a hero. To celebrate Columbus is to congratulate the process and history of the invasion,"(403). After reading this chapter I felt anger and sadness. How could we celebrate a person who brought sickness and took it as his advantage to rationalize their goodness. Native Americans did not have the immunity to fight off the disease brought by the Europeans by domesticated animals. These Native Americans suffered, killing 90% of the population and the Europeans took that as an advantage, which is morally wrong.
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