Looks pretty Oriental to me.

Wait, isn’t he committing the sin of cultural appropriation right there? Or maybe it doesn’t matter because “his heart is in the right place”?

You didn’t get the joke.

A few hours later, his family said in a statement, Mohamed decided to accept the Qatar Foundation’s offer: “This means, that we, as a family, will relocate to Qatar where Ahmed will receive a full scholarship for secondary and undergraduate education.”

Yeah, which presumably entails celebrating the Aztec and Mayan cultures to some extent, as both of them were located in present-day Mexico and their descendants are Mexican citizens.

If the west was not superior to the rest at least in some respect then we would not all be living in a world created mostly by white men. Alas . . .

Okay. Maybe that’s why we don’t have a holiday celebrating Columbus’ violent behavior and its outcomes. Columbus Day does not specifically celebrate the violence that he committed. It’s a celebration and acknowledgment of all Americans, their stories, and the reality that most of them wouldn’t be here were it not for…

Hunter gatherer cultures are typically more egalitarian that agricultural societies, so it is not entirely surprising to me that they would prefer the way of life they know and love. In fact, in many of those societies eating alone is punishable by death.

It’s not like without Columbus, you can say with absolute certainty that indigenous populations in the Americas would have remained where they were, and their lack of a utopia-esque way of life doesn’t really justify much.

I never said that we should censor history or anything else like that. I agree that this is extremely counterproductive and stupid. Rather, I said that we should sanitize history for children in the same way we don’t let them watch R-rated movies. The problem with “correcting” the pro-Western historical narrative is…

What kind of nonsense is that? Slavery or genocide itself did not lead to any benefits for either black people or native people, and I never said that it did. Nevertheless, it was indeed contact with the West that eventually gave them (and everybody else) those benefits, no matter how horrible it was in the beginning.…

You still don’t get it, do you? I’m not talking about holidays!

Yeah, but for most people in the world that is precisely because they adopted the culture and technology of the West — and Ireland is part of the West, if you haven’t realized.

Nobody celebrates genocide in the first place, so your question is a non-sequitur. I think what you are really trying to ask is whether the fact that Columbus eventually made America possible outweighs the harm that he did to the Native People. I would say that, by medieval conqueror standards, Columbus was rather…

Hey, I never said the exchange was one-sided, did I? There is no doubt that European Cuisine would suck were it not for Columbus.

I don’t expect them to be “chill” about Columbus, and I never said anything to that effect. Elsewhere I said that their grief was “perfectly understandable”. This is what I said in the OP:

Columbus made no cultural accomplishments.

It’s really lame to have a holiday which nobody celebrates. Columbus Day is already fairly lame, as only 8% of Americans actually celebrate it (mostly Italian Americans). Turning it into Indigenous People’s Day would only drop that percentage. It makes sense to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day in places with large…

Native Americans have it bad in America today (relatively speaking), but not nearly as bad as they had it in 1491. Also, they have an average lifespan of 71 years which, while well-below the American average, is still over twice what they had in 1491.