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...society doesn't make a big deal out of major anniversaries. This year much attention, politically correct and politically incorrect alike, has been given to the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. A little over a year ago, a dramatic ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. For God's sake, it wasn't too long ago that there was a gala ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spam...
MUCH OF THE WESTERN HEMIsphere may be skeptical about the benefits of the European discovery of America, but the Metropolitan Opera commemorated the 500th anniversary of that event last week anyway -- with the world premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass. The opera takes no stand on whether the dead white male Columbus was a genocidal maniac or the civilizing harbinger of Christianity; instead it strikes out for the noble horizon of all human striving, daring and accomplishment. Despite the technological resources at its disposal, it never quite gets there...
...powerful figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Willy Brandt, Lech Walesa and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Few of those were more calculatedly controversial than this year's Nobel Peace laureate, Rigoberta Menchu. The award to the 33-year-old Guatemalan Indian-rights activist was announced in the week marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World...
...CONTROVERSY HAD RAGED SO long and so intensely before the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discov . . . err, voyage to the New World that the actual day passed almost unnoticed last week. Not so in Latin America, where Native Americans constitute a majority of the population in a few countries and a large minority in others, and where cultural tensions between ( Indians, mixed-bloods and descendants of the conquistadores have long been severe. Two groups of native peoples from nearly opposite ends of the hemisphere -- Alaska and Peru -- met at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City at the end of a month...
...completely unobtrusive form of activism. This past Columbus Day, for example, Dance Umbrella staged a two-day "Pow-wow" at the Hatch Shell in Boston. This festival brought together a variety of Native American and Latin music, dance, crafts, storytelling and theater to provide a different perspective of the 500th anniversary of the "discovery" of America. "This event was meant to be educational, not confrontational," claims Alliger. "We were celebrating 500 years of survival of the Native American people...