Christopher Columbus Disorder (CCD) is a mental disorder in which the afflicted believe they have discovered something new, when in fact, indigenous peoples have known about the "discovery" (i.e., object, phenomenon, area, species, etc.) for time immemorial.
Speaker 1: Hey, did you hear Dr. Pumpkinstein discovered a new mammal species in Central America?
Speaker 2: Central America, you say? Haven't there been indigenous people living there for thousands of years with traditional stories about that same mammal passed down for generations?
Speaker 1: Well ya, but if they knew about it, they never published a paper on it.
Speaker 2: Sounds like Dr. Pumpkinstein has a case of CCD.
Speaker 1: CCD?
Speaker 2: Ya, CCD... Christopher Columbus Disorder. Because Columbus didn't discover sh*t!
Speaker 2: Central America, you say? Haven't there been indigenous people living there for thousands of years with traditional stories about that same mammal passed down for generations?
Speaker 1: Well ya, but if they knew about it, they never published a paper on it.
Speaker 2: Sounds like Dr. Pumpkinstein has a case of CCD.
Speaker 1: CCD?
Speaker 2: Ya, CCD... Christopher Columbus Disorder. Because Columbus didn't discover sh*t!
by heartofeverything February 12, 2020
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Those with this syndrome often take the stuff of the people living there because they think it's just lying around unclaimed. They also do whatever they want to the people living there, because this syndrome makes the sufferer believe that those are not really people. Finally, people with this syndrome often simply take over the property without really noticing the people who were already using it.
This syndrome was first described by Spike Lee in speaking of urban gentrification.
Those with this syndrome often take the stuff of the people living there because they think it's just lying around unclaimed. They also do whatever they want to the people living there, because this syndrome makes the sufferer believe that those are not really people. Finally, people with this syndrome often simply take over the property without really noticing the people who were already using it.
This syndrome was first described by Spike Lee in speaking of urban gentrification.
Here’s the thing: I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. Then comes the motherfuckin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfuckin’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. We bought the motherfuckin’ house in nineteen-sixty-motherfuckin’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the fuck outta here! Nah. You can’t do that. You can’t just come in the neighborhood and start bogarting and say, like you’re motherfuckin’ Columbus and kill off the Native Americans.
by rewinn October 16, 2014
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Dad: What happened to Jack and Jill? They have been together for 10 years!
Mom: Well, after Jack came down the hill with a pail of water, he decided to leave Jill to sail the ocean blue. When Jack came back, he came back with the clap and a boatload of crabs.
Dad: Yea, I remember when I came back from having the Christopher Columbus Syndrome. I gave you syphilis. I think I still got it now that I mention it. Don't tell the kids.
Mom: Those were the days, good times.
Mom: Well, after Jack came down the hill with a pail of water, he decided to leave Jill to sail the ocean blue. When Jack came back, he came back with the clap and a boatload of crabs.
Dad: Yea, I remember when I came back from having the Christopher Columbus Syndrome. I gave you syphilis. I think I still got it now that I mention it. Don't tell the kids.
Mom: Those were the days, good times.
by badsailerman1492 July 24, 2021
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1. When a player’s enjoyment of a survival or exploration game is ruined because someone else discovered or built something first. It’s not about competition—it’s about the emotional need to feel like the first to explore it themselves.
1. When a player’s enjoyment of a survival or exploration game is ruined because someone else discovered or built something first. It’s not about competition—it’s about the emotional need to feel like the first to explore it themselves.
by TheBigAhh June 8, 2025
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lesbian 1: man i really want to be a cottagecore lesbian
lesbian 2: you're white becky, that's not cottagecore, that's christopher columbuscore
lesbian 2: you're white becky, that's not cottagecore, that's christopher columbuscore
by definitelynotstraight December 2, 2020
Get the christopher columbuscore mug.1. The man who discovered America. Now, some people argue that he actually discovered the West Indies, or that it was discovered by Leif Ericcson about 1000 years before, or that you really cant discover a nation already inhabited by natives. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.*
*From America:The Book
*From America:The Book
by teh cabose November 3, 2005
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