In the USA we still honor Columbus Day..... 
Not only that, but when I was a kid - grade school atmosphere made him out to be a hero! Why did people celebrate this guy? He's part a history, not something necessarily to celebrate or hero-tize.
Because if you take all the dicks out of a history book it gets really really thin.
I'll have to have "arp" defined specifically in order to issue an opinion from the bench. Are we talking about the dozens of uses of "arpegio" that have existed in popular music for centuries or that one thing that C64s do where they rapidly fluctuate the pitch to make it sound like there's more the one oscillator?
I'm big into the first one, mildly enthusiastic on the second.
