Christopher Columbus

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were doing a favor, by changing their primitive
ways, when in fact, some of the Native American customs were far more
superior to what the Europeans had in their own. The obstinate Europeans,
did not want to make concessions because they had an assumed air of
superiority.

Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portayed by people of
1862, they viewed him as a man of great and inventive genius. Columbus in
today's perception is a grasping fortune hunter, an incompetent governor of
the "New World" colonies, those fame to the Indians he "discovered" was
plunder, servitude, and death. Columbus is like Hitler to a greater extent,
in that he persecuted, and tried to progress his own (European) race, just
like Hitler tried to persecute jews, and progress his own (Aryan) race.
Environmentalists see Columbus as a man who set forth the despoliation of
the New World, by using ecological imperialism. Columbus wanted Indian
genocide, inorder to aid the progress of the ...

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