Yes its Columbus Day!

[Darling Nikki]

:D Today is Columbus Day! Yay! This is a big day for Italians and overall huge in my family. :goodjob: So happy Columbus Day!!! :)

[boosted1jz]

WOOOTTTTT

2 more days :D

[The Yousef]

awesome?

[fawk_you]

:bigok:

[AtifSajid]

So whats the signficance of COlombus DAy? Why was it created?

[Darling Nikki]

HAHAH dude its really not that big of a day....its just gives us an excuse to have an Italian holiday. HAHAHA sorry...I am in a goofy mood. Ya know like Germans have Octoberfest, the Irish have St. Pats Day.....Columbus Day is just our Italian Day.

Whats funny is Columbus didn't find America he re-discovered it.

[quickdodge®]

It was actually my great-great-great-great grandfather, Quickdodge Vaspuccii who discovered America. Later, QD.

[Darling Nikki]

^lol haha. I know QD. lol Now we know what makes you so damn intelligent. lol

[4dmin]

So whats the signficance of COlombus DAy? Why was it created?

i'm wondering the same thing... i was talking to my penpal from argentina last night and they celebrate it... i'm like :thinking: *i don't get it*.... we celebrate coming to a new land to rape and steal the lands from the indians :lmfao:




atleast they got casinos :goodjob:

[Darling Nikki]

LOL Paul

[4dmin]

Columbus Day in the United States

Columbus Day is celebrated on the 2nd Monday in October. The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the USA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) was held by the Tammany Society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Society), also known as the Colombian Order, in New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York) on October 12th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12) 1792 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792), marking the 300th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Bahamas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamas).

Many Italian-Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American) observe Columbus Day as a celebration of Italian-American heritage. Columbus Day was first celebrated by Italians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy) in San Francisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco) in 1869 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1869), following on the heels of 1866 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1866) Italian celebrations in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City). The first state celebration was in Colorado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado) in 1905 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905), and in 1937 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt) set aside Columbus Day as a holiday in the United States. Since 1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971), the holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the second Monday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday) in October (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October), the same day as Thanksgiving (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving) in neighboring Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada).

Banks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank) are almost always closed on this day, as are government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government) offices. Public schools however are not usually closed on Columbus Day; nor is it recognized by most American employers as a day off from work.

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Europe ("][/url]Día de la Raza

The date of Columbus' arrival in the Americas is celebrated in Latin America (and in some Latino communities in the USA) as the Día de la Raza ("day of the race"), commemorating the first encounters of the Americas[/color] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americas) which would produce the new Mestizo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo) race, culture, and identity. The day was first celebrated in Argentina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina) in 1917 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917), Venezuela (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela) in 1921, Chile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile) in 1923, and Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico) in 1928.

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Native Americans ("]Opposition

Some people, particularly [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American), find the holiday offensive because they object to honoring a person who they see as opening the door to European colonization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization), the exploitation of native peoples and the slave trade. In the United States, this has caused a persistent controversy between Native Americans and Italian Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_American). Some communities, such as Berkeley, California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%2C_California), have renamed the holiday to Indigenous Peoples Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples_Day). The state of South Dakota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota) renamed the holiday Native American Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Native_American_Day&action=edit) in 1989 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989). In 2002, the Venezuelan government renamed the holiday to Día de la Resistencia Indigena ("Day of Indigenous Resistance"). In 2004, Venezuelan activists toppled a statue of Columbus in Caracas on the day of the celebration.

Some have argued that the responsibility of contemporary governments and their citizens for allegedly ongoing acts of genocide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide) against Native Americans are masked by positive Columbus myths and celebrations. These critics argue that a particular understanding of the legacy of Columbus has been used to legitimize their actions, and it is this misuse of history that must be exposed. Thus, Ward Churchill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill) (the controversial professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado) at Boulder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder%2C_Colorado), and a leader of the American Indian Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement)), has argued that:

Very high on the list of those expressions of non-indigenous sensibility which contribute to the perpetuation of genocidal policies against Indians are the annual Columbus Day celebration, events in which it is baldly asserted that the process, events, and circumstances described above are, at best, either acceptable or unimportant. More often, the sentiments expressed by the participants are, quite frankly, that the fate of Native America embodied in Columbus and the Columbian legacy is a matter to be openly and enthusiastically applauded as an unrivaled "boon to all mankind". Undeniably, the situation of American Indians will not — in fact cannot — change for the better so long as such attitudes are deemed socially acceptable by the mainstream populace. Hence, such celebrations as Columbus Day must be stopped. (in "Bringing the Law Back Home")

The claim made here is that certain myths about Columbus, and celebrations of Columbus, make it easier for people today to avoid taking responsibility for their own actions, or the actions of their governments.

The archaeological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology) discoveries at L'Anse aux Meadows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows) in Newfoundland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland) and other evidence for Vikings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking) in the New World centuries before Columbus have promoted celebrations of Leif Erikson Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson_Day), sometimes as an alternative to Columbus Day, sometimes in addition to it. Leif Erikson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson) and his longship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longship) crew are thought to have sailed to the coast of North America around the year 1000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000).







ian sent me this ^ :goodjob:

[AtifSajid]

For real, its just a day for me to find a baby sitter for my little one!!

[LaurenK]

Uh...I would like this holiday if we got off work...

[AtifSajid]

that what Im thinking..I would celebrate then also!!

[Darling Nikki]

I should of taken today off lauren. lol

[quickdodge®]

Awesome signature, Lauren. Later, QD.

[Hulud]

its not columbus day today
it is raelly the 12th
the gov't changed it to the monday closest to the 12th for a 3 day weekend

[Darling Nikki]

^Nooooo shit.

[Hulud]

yea its the gov't fucking with shit again

[Darling Nikki]

^lol

[Hulud]

hahaha its soooo true though hahahaha

[YokotaS13]

woot got the day off, and i got my vest for my motorcycle IIcon rocks!

[thinkfast®]

Uh...I would like this holiday if we got off work...

Hells yea, I had to call in today and ask if we worked, we seem to work bankers hours around the fall/winter... well dammit I'm here :thumbs down:

[DJ XtRaK©]

wooo columbus day!!! blah, gay shit...it like "ohhhh shit we hit a rock sir!" "alright! ITS A HOLIDAY!"

[Buford®]

LOL. You're crackin' me up, Matt. Do you have the day off? Or just bored at work?

[JustinSane110™]

Uh...I would like this holiday if we got off work...
Hell, just do like my aunt did. Her boss wasn't sure if they had it off or not, and she said the other branches had it off...which they don't, lol. So her office has been taking Columbus day off for the past 3-4 years now because of that. :lmfao:

[TranceDJ06]

I didnt no it was Columbus Day today till I went to the post office and saw everythin was closed..haha.