Christopher Columbus Ideology
Christopher Columbus is portrayed as a daring explorer who aided in founding and discovering most of the New World. Hispaniola had been inhabited for many years before Columbus finally arrived in 1492. In fact, an entire ethnicity and culture had formed on the island long before his trek to the New World. In venturing to the aforementioned New World, Christopher Columbus systematically killed and enslaved hundreds of innocent indigenous peoples.
Columbus braved the seas in 1492 to the New World in hopes of civilizing the savages and populating a so-called empty continent. Students are taught from a young age to see Columbus in a heroic light, despite the cataclysmic truth behind the founding of most of what we now call the North-Western Hemisphere.
Columbus braved the seas in 1492 to the New World in hopes of civilizing the savages and populating a so-called empty continent. Students are taught from a young age to see Columbus in a heroic light, despite the cataclysmic truth behind the founding of most of what we now call the North-Western Hemisphere.