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Columbus discovered America.
At least this is what I was taught when I was in elementary school back in the '90s.
I have no idea if it's changed thus far.
It's especially funny since dude never even touched USA, but USA is racist/genocidal enough to worship dude anyway.
I fucking hate Columbus day.
Let's pop open the diaraies of his crew mates and him and do a read a loud, then! Let's talk about it.
I passionately hate Christopher Columbus and the worship of him.
I also despise the fact that it's a national holiday here in the States. I'm not even sure precisely what it is that we're celebrating.
I mean if we're going to commemorate explorers why not Marco Polo or Ponce de Leon or Lief Erikson.
I was taught Captain Cook discovered Australia, he wasn't even the first European
Everyone knows it was Cap‘n Crunch
He wasn't a captain either
Neither was Cap‘n Crunch
Columbus was the first European to explore Cuban isles. Lief Erickson explored Newfoundland about 400 years before I believe.
Indigenous people discovered and settled the Americas >20,000 years ago.
And animals knew about it before that, if we don't want to be specist.
It was the old world civilisations discovering the new world for the second time, and for the first time that lead to wider contact. (Columbus himself died before it was found to be a whole continent)