A theme park where visitors 'play' the role of a slave could soon be a reality for guilt-ridden Europeans wanting to come to terms with their ancestors' brutality.
Memory Village will allow visitors to be bound and tortured at a resort in Haiti, which was a slave nation before becoming the world's first black republic.
Tourists can play the part of a slave for 12 hours, in which they get a feel for the hardship endured in the Latin American country more than 200 years ago.
To read more go to:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=82242&in_page_id=2
I've been meaning to post this article after reading it at the beginning of the month.
Not quite sure how I feel about this. People are strange.
1.17.2008
Theme park's 'slave for a day' event
POSTED BY Melissa P. @ 3:45 PM
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Oh, "slave for a day" is like being in class, you know it's going to end sooner or later so it's not the same.
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