domingo, 7 de febrero de 2016

Short Summary about a video: Columbus Day in the US sees celebration and protest



Columbus Day:
 
This video is about Columbus Day and they basically talk about what it "means" for the Native American people and Americans. As you may know every second Monday of October, this "holiday" is celebrated (there is no school neither work).

There are two different ideas about it: firstly, that this day shouldn’t be celebrated because under Columbus responsibility more than hundred thousand innocent people were killed.
But there are some other people who thing that this day is part of “American history” and it shouldn’t be banned.

The American government never made a formal apology to the indigenous population there and there are also people who are fighting for this day to be abolished but most Americans don’t want that.

In my opinion, the least the government can do is apologize and that this “holiday” should be abolished out of respect towards the indigenous people. And to finish don’t say that Columbus discovered America because what he did was conquer/invade America and don't refer to indigenous people as "indians" because it can be offensive. 

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