This house regrets the Truth and Reconciliation amnesty process.
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Dark tourism is a tourism that involves travelling to places associated with death and suffering caused by human-made disasters/tragedy such as Auschwits and the Aokigahara Suicide Forest.
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This house supports gritty realism in favour of sanitising historical representation in art (e.g. by including mistreatment of women in pseudo-medieval period pieces like Game of Thrones).
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This house regrets the Japanese depiction of historical figures in popular media.
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In post-colonial societies this house supports the demonization of colonial rule
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This house regrets the glorification of revolutionary leaders in historical narratives (e.g. Cory Aquino in the Philippines Chiang Kai Shek in Taiwan etc.)
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This house would not allow private citizens from owning historically significant artifacts or artworks
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This house believes that post conflict states should suppress discourse surrounding the period of conflict in order to promote peace.
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This house regrets the labeling of someone who has sacrificed him/herself for their country as a “National Hero”
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In democratic post-colonial states, this house believes that opposition parties to the party of independence should claim and use the legacy of anti-colonial resistance.
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This house supports the court's decision to acquit Tehlirian
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This house would stop romanticizing the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh
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This house opposes the practice in former colonies of privileging themes of anti colonial resistance over pre colonial-history and notions of indignity when fabricating national identity. Eg. anthems, street names, holidays etc.
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This house believes that Truth and Reconciliation Commissions should destroy all collected testimony upon publication of the commissions' reports.
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This house believes that scholars who study under-represented groups in history should emphasize their contribution to events that are commonly considered historically significant, rather than studying the history of those groups’ contributions to their own societies.
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This house would revoke the Nobel Peace Prize of Aung San Suu Kyi
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This house believes that we should refrain from characterising villains of history as monsters
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This house as the Kremlin would commemorate the 1917 Russian Revolution as a tradegy rather than a triumph for the nation.
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This house believes that school systems should build curricula in a way that emphasis national pride.
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This house believes that national war memorials should commemorate on the casualties of all side of the conflict