We Are All Immigrants Holiday Weekend

This coming Monday is to some Columbus Day and to others Indigenous Peoples’ [sic] Day.

Since there appears to be much debate and controversy about the history of this country as well as the entire hemisphere, let’s stick with science:

We are all immigrants or descended from immigrants to this hemisphere.

Therefore, we unilaterally declare this weekend to be

We Are All Immigrants Holiday Weekend.

Enjoy!

Last year’s post stated, accurately and scientifically:

Let’s consider the fact that nobody knows exactly who were the actual indigenous people of what’s now the USA, because all of these people, from various ethnic groups, from various races, from various parts of the old world, arrived at various times over tens of thousands of years. Some even arrived after the Vikings landed on the east coast of this continent and only a few hundred years before Columbus arrived in the “NewWorld.”

If we define “indigenous” as meaning first, then many if not most of the groups identified as “indigenous” arrived after the actual indigenous people, whoever they were.

Technically speaking, we are all immigrants to this hemisphere.

Happy “We Are All Immigrants Holiday Weekend!”

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