Colombus Day

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Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin

I think it's more of an excuse to get drunk for most....
Besides on St. Patty's Day most people pretend to be Irish or join in anyway. Anyway the point was not every ethnicity has a famous figure celebrated and it doesn't exactly matter that Columbus was Italian, or Spanish or whatever, you still have to take into account the atrocities and trends he encouraged and perpatrated.

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I agree, just pointing out that there is an irish holiday.:bow:

That's what I figured.

I think the people who celebrate Columbus Day around here are actually either celebrating Columbus or just having a day off....
Either way it isn't particularly good IMHO.
Of the people I know the ones who think enough to come to the conclusion that Columbus was a pretty nasty guy and instead, celebrate what his/his crewman's moment of discovery represent, don't think we should have a day off for him, although they do support having a day off for something. The rest just don't think enough about it, and often history in general. It seems like only a very small number of people would end up celebrating what the moment represents.

All holidays today have been so commercialised as to be far removed from their oringinal intent. Heck putting them all on mondays so you always get a three day weekend. Do you think they did that just so you could get three days off in a row. I actually liked it better the old way by the date. And we got Washington and Linclons birthdays off. Now we have Presidents day and Martin Luther King Day Gah. I guess it was hard to make their birthdays always arrive on a monday :)

I'm glad we can celebrate what happened. Opened up a part of the globe that was for all intents and purposes unknown. Did bad things happen because of Columbus and his bull-headedness? Well yes. But lets be honest, bad things happen because of anything. Easter, 4th of July, Honest Abe's birthday are the ones that jump to mind.

Of course, we could dwell on all the bad things that happened.

But I prefer not to. I wish I had gotten Monday off, but for some reason, I got last Monday off. No clue why, besides "Fall Break".

Azi

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Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

All holidays today have been so commercialised as to be far removed from their oringinal intent. Heck putting them all on mondays so you always get a three day weekend. Do you think they did that just so you could get three days off in a row. I actually liked it better the old way by the date. And we got Washington and Linclons birthdays off. Now we have Presidents day and Martin Luther King Day Gah. I guess it was hard to make their birthdays always arrive on a monday :)

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So that actually happens around the world too...It's too much, I agree.