어제와 오늘/배중진

어제와 오늘/배중진

어제는 창문을 열면서 확 안기는 스컹크 냄새에
인상을 찌푸리며
밝아오는 태양을 맞이했다

October Fest가 열린다고 해서
독일음식과 그들의 맥주를 마시려고
점심도 거른 채 시내로 나갔는데

아직 준비가 덜되어 맥주 구경도 못하고
인도 음식점에 가서
향신료가 듬뿍 들어간 음식을 맛있게 들고

가을을 만끽하고 싶어
찬란하게 빛이나는 낙엽에 정신없이 심취
많은 사진을 찍었으며

오늘은 가슴에 알맞게 차가움을 느끼고
나무 태우는 냄새가 살짝 스치며
밝아오는 태양을 맞이했다

Columbus Day Parade가 맨하탄에서 열린다고 해서
그들의 문화를 배우려고
아침 일찍 서둘러 교외선을 탔다

정확한 시간에 화려하면서도 힘하게 출발했고
시장, 상원의원, 우주비행사등
유명인사들이 다 모인듯 규모도 엄청났다

웅장한 건물들을 배후에 두고
여러가지 장식으로 특이하게 꾸며진 차량들을 찍으면서
단풍이나 만큼 다양한 가을을 느꼈던 날이었다

 

10/07/2018 Oktoberfest

 

10/8/2018 Columbus Day

 

Columbus Day has been a very divisive holiday in the United States for some time now, and that shows
no signs of changing any time soon. The explorer from the 15th century was from Genoa, Italy, which is
why many Italians cling to him and his accomplishments with pride. Many Italian-Americans are adamant
about keeping the holiday as they feel it is a day for them to celebrate their heritage, their place in this country,
and their contributions to America while recognizing their ancestors’ own struggles as immigrants.

 

Those who are in favor of abolishing Columbus Day or changing the name to Indigenous People’s Day say
it has nothing to do with a lack of respect for Italians and everything to do with the way this particular man
treated the native people of the so-called “new world.”

 

While Columbus accomplished much for the Spanish crown on his expeditions, he is also responsible for
crimes against humanity that can’t be overlooked. Slavery and physical brutality were part of daily life during
Columbus’s colonization of the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola. Starvation and disease were also widespread
thanks to the horrible working conditions he and his crew provided for the natives.

 

These facts are what drove a group of anti-Columbus protesters to cover the hands of a statue of the explorer
in New York City with red paint last year, to illustrate the point that he is a figure stained with blood. (All of this
aside, Columbus was also actually not the first person to discover America. The Vikings beat him to it
several hundred years earlier.) Find out about famous moments in history that actually didn’t happen.

 

Four states and many cities have abandoned Columbus Day and replaced it with
Indigenous People’s Day to honor the Native Americans who fell victim to these tragedies instead.

 

On this new holiday, people celebrate the culture of indigenous Americans (those who lived here before
Europeans came to colonize).

 

However, Columbus Day still remains a federal holiday. Whether that will change is still yet to be seen.
In the meantime, catch up on these other facts you probably didn’t know about Christopher Columbus.

 

The post Why Columbus Day Is One of the Most Controversial Holidays in America appeared first on
Reader's Digest.

 

On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew set sail from Spain in three ships: the Nina, the Pinta and
the Santa Maria. On October 12, the ships made landfall—not in Asia, as Columbus assumed, but on
one of the Bahamian islands.

 

For months, Columbus sailed from island to island in what we now know as the Caribbean, looking for the
“pearls, precious stones, gold, silver, spices, and other objects and merchandise whatsoever” that he had
promised to his Spanish patrons, but he did not find much. In March 1493, leaving 40 men behind in a
makeshift settlement on Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), he returned to Spain.

 

About six months later, in September 1493, Columbus returned to the Americas. He found the Hispaniola
settlement destroyed (to this day, no one knows what happened there) and left his brothers Bartolomeo
and Diego behind to rebuild, along with part of his ships’ crew and hundreds of enslaved natives.

 

Then he headed west, with his own complement of native slaves, to continue his mostly fruitless search for
gold and other goods. In lieu of the material riches he had promised the Spanish monarchs, he sent
some 500 slaves to Queen Isabella. The queen was horrified—she believed that any people Columbus
“discovered” were Spanish subjects who could not be enslaved—and she promptly and sternly returned
the explorer’s gift.

 

In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad and the
South American mainland before returning to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where the colonists
had staged a bloody revolt against the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality. Conditions
were so bad that Spanish authorities had to send a new governor to take over. Christopher Columbus
was arrested and returned to Spain in chains.

 

In 1502, cleared of the most serious charges but stripped of his noble titles, the aging Columbus persuaded
the Spanish king to pay for one last trip across the Atlantic. This time, Columbus made it all the way to
Panama—just miles from the Pacific Ocean—where he had to abandon two of his four ships in the face of
an attack from hostile natives. Empty-handed, the elderly explorer returned to Spain, where he died in 1506.

 

Legacy of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas, nor was he even the first European to visit the
“New World.” (Viking explorers had sailed to Greenland and Newfoundland in the 11th century.)

 

However, his journey kicked off centuries of exploration and exploitation on the American continents.
The consequences of his explorations were severe for the native populations of the areas he and
the conquistadores conquered. Disease and environmental changes resulted in the destruction of the
majority of the native population over time, while Europeans continued to extract natural resources from
these territories.

 

Today, Columbus has a controversial legacy—he is remembered as a daring and path-breaking explorer
who transformed the New World, yet his actions also unleashed changes that would eventually devastate
the native populations he and his fellow explorers encountered.

 

Citation Information

Article Title
Christopher Columbus

Author
History.com Editors

Website Name
HISTORY

URL
https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus    

 

Access Date
October 8, 2018

Publisher
A&E Television Networks

Last Updated
August 28, 2018

Original Published Date
November 9, 2009

 

Will you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day today?
26%
Columbus Day

8%
Indigenous Peoples’ Day

64%
Neither

2%
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