“7.5 million people died on La Española as a result of the Spanish conquest…Celebrating Columbus Day reinforces the myth of American exceptionalism and perpetuates a crime against Native Americans as a celebration of European colonization and genocide.”
It is evident that Columbus’s effect on the Western world was extremely negative. He perpetrated the killing of millions of innocent Native Americans, enough to equal a genocide- a large one at that.
Reda, Joe. “Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?.” Mavericks’ Education Journal: 29.
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