No we shouldn't, we should NOTE its importance. It's not as if he was the first guy to step on to the Americas. He wasn't even the first European to do so. That's 'villain' (dammit can we get a spell-checker function added to the website?) Anyway, he was neither. He was just a nosy parker.
i just had this discussion with my neighbor who is also my post lady last night (she is from poland)...i couldn't figure out why i didn't get mail on monday and she reminded me that it was a government holiday...my response was that the public schools were still in session on monday...we have a columbus day parade but it almost always comes with controversy from the native americans tribes...so we had a little history lesson over the phone about how columbus discovered america for the europeans but not necessarily as an uncharted territory...celebrating columbus day is more of a formality than anything...he was not the first european but we also didn't have a media to make announcment of such discovery...columbus received the credit in the history books...i suppose we could (re) write history but then that would open up a can a worms as to how the rest of history was documented...personally i think celebrating the day opens up a dialogue about the truth or untruths in what is written in history
Time to rewrite history. At least to revise it. History as I knew it has been changed anyway. Anyone has checked out the textbooks that were written forty years ago and compared to those today?
I want a day where we celebrate when the vikings came over here, way before Columbus. It would be a drunk day that is for sure.. meade for everyody All 340 Swedes in the US gets the day off (ok, some of the Norwegians too).
My school stopped celebrating it like in 11th grade. I didn't give a shit. Ain't like he discovered anything.
Maybe that is like the day of the reunion of Germany. Nobody gives a fuck except the tv and the politicans.
LOL, that was so funny.... I wouldnt want that to happen either. Like I would seriously spel chek posts on a board if that function would exists.
That is true Leif Ericson and earlier Bjarni Herjolfsson saw America before Columbus. It is doubtful if Columbus,Ohio had changed to Bjarni or Ericson Ohio.
I'm still slightly confused.. how can anyone from Europe discover a land, that's already been discovered and populated? Did Europeans write our history books or what? Damn sure wasn't the natives. Oh and wasn't Leif Ericson a member of an 80s rockband or some actor?
That is very true, but remember that anything that wasnt Europe was "discovered".... Uber Eurocentric, I mean - I guess the natives in all the countries were very grateful to be "discovered".. They probably didnt know they existed before that... Eh? We even tried to convert Ethiopians to Christianity.. that one is particularly funny... they were a bit ahead of us. I still want my Viking drunk day/
i nominate approved changes to 'American' history books it's not impossible..i mean..nothing's impossible.... look at the healthcare bill
