If I knew the actual day they landed, I'd post it then. I don't go by the Alliance's Days of Remembrance. I am saying it today, however, in my annual protest of the way we teach history and that Scandinavian, Germanic, and Celtic peoples are taught as being relatively unimportant to history.
The US gov't celebrates it on the 9th, which is what I went by.
The way we teach history today seems to imply overall that "white people are bad" without any clarification that people of any ethnic background can do and have done great or horrible things. It's a huge backlash against the way history was taught in the early and mid-20th century. ::shrugs:: I was lucky enough that I was aware of Leif Eriksson well before I was aware of Christopher Columbus.
I am horribly ashamed to admit to a now corrected ignorance on my part. Until now, and with the help of Wikipedia, I didn't even know the US government had a "special" day for it. For that matter, I didn't know that this was not just something that the AA created as part of their Remembrance days. Thank you for educating me.
I still think we should start saying it today, however. That way we can protest the honoring of Columbus.
You are correct, sadly, that our education system practically teaches the "white people are bad" scenario. Regardless of whether or not all peoples from all races are capable of greatness or atrocity, it doesn't correct things by demonizing one group because of the Euro-centric method of education that we engaged in before. As my mother loved to say, "two wrongs don't make a right." (As I grew older I got myself in trouble for retorting that three lefts do.)
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The way we teach history today seems to imply overall that "white people are bad" without any clarification that people of any ethnic background can do and have done great or horrible things. It's a huge backlash against the way history was taught in the early and mid-20th century. ::shrugs:: I was lucky enough that I was aware of Leif Eriksson well before I was aware of Christopher Columbus.
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I still think we should start saying it today, however. That way we can protest the honoring of Columbus.
You are correct, sadly, that our education system practically teaches the "white people are bad" scenario. Regardless of whether or not all peoples from all races are capable of greatness or atrocity, it doesn't correct things by demonizing one group because of the Euro-centric method of education that we engaged in before. As my mother loved to say, "two wrongs don't make a right." (As I grew older I got myself in trouble for retorting that three lefts do.)
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