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Bad Lessons Learned in School

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA

September 08, 2005
Do they still teach this? Tell me they stopped teaching this. Please. I always wondered how Columbus could "discover" a landmass that already had thousands of people living on it. Okay, so he was the non-Indian who dropped anchor on American shores. So what about the Chinese who voyaged across the Pacific? Or the Vikings who landed in Greenland and Nova Scotia? Why do we even learn about Columbus? Oh yeah, because he's the one who opened the gates so all the madmen of Europe could come here and steal the Indian's treasures and demolish whatever culture they found. [Anthony Pignataro]

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