History: Christopher Columbus and George Washington

The rise of "Washington City" in the District of Columbia in the United States witnessed two names in the District of Columbia: Christopher Columbus and George Washington - played an important role in the United States on today's rich way. The citizens expressed respect for these two heroes passing through holidays and memorials, but the younger generation is relatively easy to live, sometimes ignoring hostility over the discovery and birth of the country and taking them as a matter of course I believe.

James Loewen wrote his book in 1995. Most American high school history textbooks can guess what they really did in American history. George Washington, Andrew Jackson 's Christopher Columbus: Everyone becomes a hero, a white savior inevitably advances this country. America is synonymous with progress. There was never a bad thing in American history. Even if they are white, even though they are murderers or slaves, they are white equality, liberty and freedom, as long as there is a dark moment (slavery, massacres, racial discrimination, repression, It is a slight obstacle in the way to the progress of Utopia. Master of tens of thousands of indigenous families

Columbus Day solved the problem that most people do not know. Most Americans do not know much about Columbus until Washington Irving - yes, Washington Owen - wrote "Life History and Christopher Columbus Sailing" in 1828. This book promotes the ordinary story that "Columbus sails to prove that Earth does not exist". It is also an account that may have been written by Columbus' propaganda agent. Still, the public holidays to commemorate the idea of ​​Columbus are hardly incorporated until the century after the Catholic brothers organization, the Order of Columbus, looking for American celebrations Catholic examples, until after a century did. When Franklin Roosevelt established Columbus Day in 1937, they noticed their wishes.