Quote 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.
Not you're wrong. The only thing that matters really is what the moment of his discovery represents, taking all the killing aside, that's what's celebrated in Columbus Day, not the figure of Columbus itself or his doings.