Circumspect in his baseless racial and ethnic judgments, the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus brought Christian ethnocentrism across the Atlantic by close-mindedly ogling the exotic terrain and native inhabitants of the Caribbean to surmise that he had come across a world of his wildest dreams, above the dreams and beliefs of any others. Correspondingly, from his “marvelous” observations, Columbus jumped to conclude that the lands and people he found fit within the Christian domain of manifest destiny, at European disposal. Columbus employed an ignorant worldview of “open formalism” towards indigenous people, conceiving of indigenous people as blank slates best filled through conquest, and asserting that he was never contradicted with
