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This video was just of series of wait it gets sadder.
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If they wanted an exhibit of savagery in Africa, they could have just shown Leopold sitting in a chair all day. Maybe a bit too horrifying for some.
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On the 13th of April 1994, in Port-Saint-PĂšre, France; an "african village" made out of poured concrete was unveiled to the public, stocked with people from Ivory Coast, dressed in primitive attire. Those "performers" were paid in Ivory Coast for a laughably low salary by french standards, and were forced to live half naked in the cold climate of brittany, as families would come visit them like a zoo.
To add insult to injury the village was commissioned by a cookie manufacturer for a line of chocolate flavored products featuring a racist mascot called "Bamboula".
The village was shut down in september of the same, but the fact that such a project was greenlit by french authorities in !!!!!1994!!!!!!! absolutely baffles me to this day.
If you want to look it up it's called "Le Village de Bamboula"
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The last human zoo was created in France in... 1994.
It started when a (real) zoo owner thought it would be cool to recreate an African village in his zoo. So he struck a deal with a chocolate cookie brand called "bamboula" whose mascot was a little black child called Bamboula dressed in leopard skins. Bamboula was also a common racial slur used against black people.
It would be called "Le village de Bamboula" (Bamboula's village).
So then the guy struck a convention with the Ivory Coast government to send him a troop of performers and dancers. The convention stated that they would work and be paid according to the Ivory Coast legislation, not the French work legislation, which is totally illegal.
When he went to the Region (an administrative territorial entity in France) they told him they were worried the performers would try to escape to migrate illegally. His answer was "No problem, I'll keep their passports in my safe", and apparently the region was satisfied with that answer.
When the "performers" arrived they were first tasked with building their huts themselves, with no heating, no water, and no locks. Then they had to dance all day long for the tourists. Women were forced to dance with their breasts exposed, this was in march, when it is really cold, and the dancers could be as young as 13 years old.
The minors didn't go to school, which is also absolutely illegal, and when they got sick they were treated by the zoo veterinarian.
They also never actually got paid: their troupe leader, who was African, kept their money in his room, the only one with a lock, and he also raped many of the female performers.
After a few months anti-racist associations and work unions caught wind of what was happening, the whole thing was shut down and the performers were repatriated to the Ivory Coast. There was trial a few years after that but the zoo owner was only sentenced to pay 1 symbolic franc to anti-racist associations. The performers never saw their wages or any kind of compensation
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These human zoos were a thing in Denmark as well, exhibiting people from the colonies and other âexoticâ places. One of the most interesting stories from that time is that of Victor Cornelins who was taken from his family in the West Indies at age seven to be exhibited in Copenhagen. He ended up staying when his home islands were sold to the US, becoming a school teacher (as one of very few people of color in mainland Denmark at the time) and wrote a book about his experiences in the 1970s.
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In Germany there were so-called Völkerschauen until the mid 1950s, basically what you just described.
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This is so f**ked up I can't even wrap my head around it.
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Wow. That's messed up.
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In this latest edition of, "what the flying fuck was/is wrong with people?"
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Yes, that is a very sad story, and unfortunately it has not been exclusive to the USA. In France (where I come from) human zoos were common place maybe till WWII... it's been a thing in all of Europe, and they were gradually phased out not because of ethical concerns, but because they eventually came "out of fashion". More shameful is that in France there was a brand of biscuits who tried to put back together a new "indigenous village" (with "actors" from Africa who were basically paid peanuts) to advertise one of their products in 1994 (!!!) Needless to say (and thank god) in 1994 there was enough push back from many french citizens and anti-racist associations to cancel that new "human zoo"...
Edit: should have read comments below, some people already brought this up.
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This is literally a South Park episode. It'd be hilarious if it didn't make me want to die.
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Thank you for sharing this man's story. He didn't deserve that fate. His story deserves to be remembed by more.
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France has an exhibition of so-called "primitive people" as late as 1994 in the "Bamboula village", an "amusement park" with a lot of wild stuff
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Me every 5 seconds of watching this:
Wow! I Can't Believe It's Gotten Even Worse!
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Human zoos are a totally forgotten and it's absolutely insane. Just like appreciating how lynching was often done with a cheering crowd that took teeth as souvenirs, these sorts of stories highlight just how dehumanized black bodies were at the time.
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Simply heartbreaking. Man's inhumanity to man is hard to fathom.
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And here I thought we as Belgians were cruel for displaying people from Congo as an exhibit at the world fair. It was still cruel, but I didn't think we'd be outdone.
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Welcome boys to Leopolds Congo
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This MUST be its own episode, the history of People exhibitions is worth talking about.
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@warlordofbritannia
2 years ago
Maybe the real savages were the spectators we met along the way
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