Educating the young about the mistakes of
the past is one of the best ways to avoid
them in the future
in the fields
for example)
dark tourism becomes
a viable option. In
other parts of the world
where death is a more
open topic and people
are not slaves to living, where modernization has not taken hold
and family and community ties are more
important than what
the latest version of
the iphone is, people
have an interest and
reverence of death,
an acceptance which
motivates them to pay
their respects to others
who have died, a mix
of remembrance and
death combined.
Another factor that can
play an important role
in dark tourism is education. Educating the
young about the
mistakes of the
past is one of
the best ways
to avoid them in
the future. And if
you tell a student
they are going
on an excursion to visit a
place where evil
or tragedy happened they are
certainly going
to remember it
more than a trip
to a museum,
and the effect
of them using
their imagination whilst looking at an ordinary everyday
scene that contained
so much violence in
the past is far more
impacting than reading
a textbook on it. Soon
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the majority of those
who lived through some
of the most harrowing
and evil events of the
21st century will be