CURE 2005 week 2 warm up questions

Who is Christopher Columbus

• He is a explorer and a hero that discovered the new world

• He is a brutal colonialist who killed millions of Native American

• He is a US national hero because he stands for navigation science, progress and growth

• I am not sure

Have you heard of the Columbus Day in the US?

• Yes I have. There are also cities named Columbus.

• There is a Columbus Circle in New York City

• Columbus Day is a national holiday

• I have never heard of it

Who are the Native Americans?

• Economically underdeveloped tribes who had little literacy and civilisation

• There are many but they are mostly dead?

• They live in reservation and poverty in today's USA.

• Indigenous people in the northern and southern America

Who are the West Indies?

• I don't know

• Indians or South Asians in the western coast?

• People in the Caribbean

• Chinese?

What is the discourse of the West?

• The West is scientifically and culturally superior. Western modernity is better

• i don't know what a discourse is

• Europeans are brutal colonizers

• The West is a diverse concept. I have no idea how to define it.