@Mazzarhataboot or however he fucking spells it made a post today, about the discovery of an ancient Roman trading ship wrecked off the coast of Cyprus. I read the article, and it was treated as a totally joyous event. No sympathy was given towards the Roman sailors that died horrible deaths drowning off the coast of Cyprus. Now, if you read, or view, almost any account of the sinking of the Titanic, it will talk about the horrors of it's sinking, the fact that it did not have enough lifeboats, and the hubris involved in it's construction. Now, this is my actual question, and it isn't the one listed in the title. Why do some historical tragedies resonate with the people, while others do not? Why does the "genocide" of Native Americans continue to fill people's imagination, when it was smallpox, not other humans, that literally did 98% of the killing? Why does nobody seem to care about the human-driven genocides committed by the Mongol and Aztec empires? Why does the enslavement of Africans by Europeans dominate peoples' imaginations, as opposed to the enslavement of Africans by Arabs, or other Africans? Why must the Holocaust never be forgotten, while the holodomor is barely even remembered? What makes a tragedy easily relatable?