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A Short Fall Break, but What Should We Call It?

By KATHERINE SCHULTEN

CreditMichael Appleton for The New York Times

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Break

휴일

Indigenous

토착부족, Originating, Native

contributions

기부금

genocide

대량살상, 집단학살

legacy

유산

enslavement

노예화, 노예 상태

Many schools in the United States are off for Columbus Day, so we’re taking a short break ourselves — but, as The Times reports, we may not be calling this early fall holiday “Columbus Day” for much longer:

Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1934. Recently, cities like Seattle and Minneapolis have swapped out Columbus for events in honor of native peoples, following places like Berkeley, Calif., which since the early 1990s has celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day instead.

Last year, Brown University changed the name of the holiday:

At Brown, faculty members were moved to act after a student organization, the Native Americans at Brown, called for the change after 2015’s Fall Weekend. The new name “would recognize the contributions of Indigenous People/Native Americans to our community and our culture and foster a more inclusive community,” according to a motion presented to the faculty.

The movement to rename the holiday is based on the contention that Columbus was no hero, but instead a deliverer of genocide to Native Americans. His legacy is the subject of endless debate.

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    How does your school handle the topic of Columbus?

    What do you think of the argument for changing the name and focus of the holiday? Does calling it “Columbus Day” overlook a painful history of colonialism, enslavement, discrimination and land grabs, and renaming it help to account for the history and contributions of Native Americans?

    Or does renaming it dishonor the history, culture and contributions of Italians, a group that has also endured discrimination?

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  2. seongjookim
    seongjookim says:

    저는 바꿔야 된다고 생각합니다 왜냐하면 콜롬버스가 개인적으로 싫고 제 스타일도 아니고 콜롬버스가 원주민을 괴롭혔기 때문입니다

  3. Woojae Kim
    Woojae Kim says:

    I don’t know how does my school handle the topic of Columbus…

    Many people just enjoy the break on Columbus Day. So that people could think “Columbus is awesome!! Because of him, we don’t go to school or work on that day.” without commemoration. And when we think Columbus Day, we automatically think Columbus first, not a Native American. The main reason why is we call “Columbus Day.” We should commemorate Native American, not a Columbus who was slaughterer. Therefore, we should rename the Columbus Day and that thing would change our next generation’s mind and thought.
    If something happened wrong, then we have to fix it.

  4. Taeksu kim
    Taeksu kim says:

    -My school was handled Columbus was aggressor.
    -I think I want a change because Native Americans are genocide and enslavement.

  5. KyeongminIm
    KyeongminIm says:

    I don’t no school handle the topic of Columbus
    and I tink changing the Columbusday name.
    because it is diprive the land

  6. Ashley Kim
    Ashley Kim says:

    My school handle the topic of Columbus day as a ‘no school’day. On Columbus day, we have a break; We stay at home or go out and hang out with friends. In my school, we just think Columbus day as a one day-off day.

  7. Boyoon han
    Boyoon han says:

    I don’t know my school handle the topic of columbus. but I think columbus colonized the Americans, so he made fault.

    I think have to change the name because this day is the American native’s sad history.

    I think ” Columbus Day” overlook a painful history of colonialism, enslavement, discrimination and land grabs, and renaming it help to account for the history and contributions of Native Americans. because the columbus day is sad and painful for American natives. columbus colonized the Americans. and plunder their food and money, so Columbus was main instigator of the slave trade.

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