Slavery Theme Park

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Originally Posted by tld221

so this thread may go from "WTF?" to "insert offensive remarks" to "insert defensive remarks" to "WTF?" but i'm sharing it anyway:


http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article...2&in_page_id=2

Wow you get to be a slave for only 12hrs.....what a rip off. I'm mad that some fools will actually sign up for this.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

So what next - go to Poland and pretend to be gassed??? Maybe go to Ireland and starve for a few days to understand their plight during the Potato famine - or to Vietnam and be treated like a POW - to France and be a Huguenot? to Rome and be a persecuted Christian?? Huh???

Hey, don't give them anymore ideas.

Originally Posted by tld221

does anyone remember the Tunnel of Oppression that was being done all over college campuses in the past few years? i think its in the same vein (well obviously over the top) of experiential learning.

i HATED having to run the booths in the exhibit - for example, binding someone's hands with rubber bands and making them pick up coins, then exclaiming "see! look how hard that was! this is what its like for disabled people! now take the rubber bands off!"

come on, really guys? we're all even stevens now?

This sounds like something we did on campus, but it was called "Boxes and Walls." There was a theme and a lesson to be learned in each room. For example you had the language barrier room, the gay/lesbian room, the handicapped room, the homeless room, the African American experience room, etc. It was actually very interesting.