After having watched “The Meeting of Two Worlds”, I began to scour the internet for some reasons for and against Columbus’ exploration as I was quite perplexed by the two questions posed in the middle of the lecture, the first one being “what impressions did you have of Columbus before you looked at his account?”.Continue reading “week 2: the meeting of two worlds”
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The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
“Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent”
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with 1492, Fear, Hitler, Native, October 12th, Rapist, Settlement
The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
“Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent”
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with 1492, Fear, Hitler, Native, October 12th, Rapist, Settlement
The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
“Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent”
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with 1492, Fear, Hitler, Native, October 12th, Rapist, Settlement
The video talks about how the idea of Latin America and why and how it became popular. The mythical point of contact: 1492 October 12th was the instant Latin America begun. Whilst watching this video, I discovered that this was the year there was a great divide between pre-colonial, pre-Hispanic and pre Latin America. And despite having several Vikings sail around the world, their settlement left little to no impact whereas Christopher Columbus had a huge impact having several places/things named after him. At the end of the video and in class as well, we are asked to think about whether Columbus was a hero or not.
Whilst in high-school, all the history I had been taught about Columbus was that of him being a hero. A hero for being enough of a risk taker to sail out into ocean. In text books he was seen as a famous Italian explorer who discovered America, but after reading his journal and watching the videos posted online- I personally think that it is evident that he may have been a brave man- but he was a greedy man. How do you call a rapist a hero?
The Meeting of the two worlds video by Angela pope et all- (0.49) the image shows Christopher Columbus with a huge cross and natives/indigenous people all around him subtly bowing down to him. This picture struck me due to the stark type of it because it shows the nature of who he really was- making people do things for him, and having complete dominance over the native people whilst they obey him out of fear or no choice.
He damaged the lives of a lot of Native Americans by partaking the slave trade. His crew and him killed a huge population, and all his ideas were erroneous because he was not the first to have discovered the land, Indians had been there way prior.
“Columbus makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent”
After watching the videos, it boggles my mind why he’s had places and things named after him, especially for having public holidays like Columbus Day when in actuality it should be called Indigenous People’s day.
Whilst some are able to recognize Columbus for the courage, determination and will he embodied, I still do not see how he can be considered a hero- he is much more a fake idol.
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with 1492, Fear, Hitler, latin america, Native, October 12th, Rapist, Settlement
I found the lecture video, The Colonial Experience, incredibly interesting as it touched on many aspects of the latin american identity, and how certain events contributed to how it came to be. 1492 was a significant, and complicated year with numerous forms of interaction between the europeans and the indigenous people’s. Not only was 1492 […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 3 | Tagged with 1492, casta
Before reading Columbus’s account of the voyage of 1492, I had heard a variety of different perspectives about him. Growing up in the United States, in elementary school he was spoken of in heroic terms. I didn’t question that narrative at first because after all, there is a holiday named after him. So he must’ve […]
Posted in Blogs, Week 2 | Tagged with 1492, Columbus, Meeting of Two Worlds
While reading Columbus’ journal for this week’s pre-reading, I came to see the violence of his actions and the consequent violence perpetuated by them in a different light than previously. Having been taught my high school history curriculum by a … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Week 1, Week 2 | Tagged with 1492, Assimilation, Columbus, Eurocentrism, Evangelism, Hierarchies, Imperialism, indigenous, paradigm, religion, violence
