British Broadcasting Corporation, 6:25 pm (PT)
At approximately 5:16 pm (PT), the SPECPOL committee opened their sixth committee session of the weekend with an odd smell metastasizing throughout Ballroom B-smoke. Several delegates in the corner of the room were the first to notice and point this out to the director, who did some investigating and announced that it was just cigarette smoke from the room over and that the session would continue on.
Previously, there had been an unmod among the delegates, further discussing bloc positions on topic B (post-colonial cultural reconstruction) as well as debating specific bloc cases across delegations. There were two main points discussed so far on this topic: how past decolonization needs to be recognized and reconciled, and how the past decolonization can be a lesson for nations to move forward.
Delegations like the UK, Paraguay, Austria, and Canada believe that in order for there to be cultural reconstruction, there must be some sort of rebound from past “mistakes” to further improve and establish these cultures in the future. And though the past was simply “bad” (as delegates say) and still has effects on society now (such as keeping historical artifacts in non-original museums) they believe “that we must move forward despite our past.”
Though others somewhat agree, questions still arise from opposition: What about remembering the past so that we don’t make these mistakes again? Other blocs are focusing more on reconciling what happened in the end.