This is a the saying of a person in his own thoughts and languages. When I spent my first Columbus Day in Mexico, my first reaction was “Mexico celebrates Columbus Day?” It is embarrassing to recall now, but I think after years of elementary school training, I was conditioned to think “Columbus discovered America” and, in typical egotistical fashion, I assumed “America” referred to the United States. Somehow, even knowing that Columbus landed in the Caribbean and never saw the U.S. didn’t alter my narrow-minded thinking. My teacher said “Columbus discovered America” and my young brain left it at that.
It took just a nanosecond to realize my surprise was illogical. October 12th is a date of enormous significance for the Spanish-speaking world. Before dawn on that day in 1492, Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón) and his crew first spied land from the decks of the Pinta and later that day dropped anchor off the shore of a Bahaman island. By December he had also explored Cuba and the island of Hispañola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The “discovery” was made in the name of the Spanish crown, the voyage’s financier. Within fifty years of Columbus’ first voyage, nearly all of Central and South America had been colonized by the Spanish.
So as we have seen that how the Columbus Day is been celebrated in many countries than America as in Mexico (Spain).Columbus Day is avery big fest or event which is been celeberated in different countries in different ways and styles with the same meaning but with different types of feelings and emotions of all the people.They make delicious food and many more things as to keep maintain the joy and happiness on the Columbus Day.
It took just a nanosecond to realize my surprise was illogical. October 12th is a date of enormous significance for the Spanish-speaking world. Before dawn on that day in 1492, Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón) and his crew first spied land from the decks of the Pinta and later that day dropped anchor off the shore of a Bahaman island. By December he had also explored Cuba and the island of Hispañola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The “discovery” was made in the name of the Spanish crown, the voyage’s financier. Within fifty years of Columbus’ first voyage, nearly all of Central and South America had been colonized by the Spanish.
So as we have seen that how the Columbus Day is been celebrated in many countries than America as in Mexico (Spain).Columbus Day is avery big fest or event which is been celeberated in different countries in different ways and styles with the same meaning but with different types of feelings and emotions of all the people.They make delicious food and many more things as to keep maintain the joy and happiness on the Columbus Day.
