Pillars of salt had been left in place to support the ceiling at each level. The pillars were dissolved by the encroaching fresh water and caused the mine tunnels to collapse.
You are more safe from violent crime right now than at any point in the last thirty years. It makes no sense to actively worry about things like this, even if the headlines are salacious.
But if you think I'm using a definition that makes Martin Luther King a fascist then I'm going to conclude you're not discussing the issue in good faith.
It sounds completely natural to associate a language with the experiences you had in it.
Would it be weird to hate France if you went, had your luggage stolen, then got mugged, and then we're diagnosed with cancer while you were there?
Humans brains are just association machines, and that language has associations for you. Maybe try to find friends in that community to make your own, positive associations?
Fuck around, fall over