the human zoo in france was called "Bamboula's village"
This map is extremely poorly made and missed quite literally half the world.
The Swiss and Norwegians had human zoos where they paid black peoples to perform racist stereotypes. Norwegians and Swedes also forced the Sami minority to preform in human exhibits.
The Russian Empire had multiple human zoos that ran for short periods of time between 1800-1914. They were a rare form of entertainment for the Tsars and nobility.
The Dutch aren’t marked on this man but they literally hired and kidnapped several black people to preform in a human zoo called “N-word village”. Along with a village dedicated to native people from Suriname.
Thailand held hundreds of refugee women from Myanmar in a human zoo that was operating as late as 2008. They were not allowed to leave the country and were essentially slaves until the UN stepped in.
Czechoslovakia operated a human zoo with Pygmy individuals.
Ireland operated a human zoo in Dublin with Senegalese “performers” in 1904.
The Austrian-Hungarian Empire operated multiple human zoos.
Australia had human zoos of aboriginal peoples.
Warsaw had a human zoo that attracted 200,000-300,000 attendees.
Portugal operated a human zoo with kidnapped Africans from its colonies in 1940.
Argentina forced indigenous tribe leaders to perform in natural history museums.
The Aztec Empire operated a human zoo in their capital city with hundreds of enslaved performers that were considered “odd”; note that this means disabled. It was recently unearthed by archeologists a few years ago after being considered a myth, since it was only documented by the Conquistadors as the zoo was part of the personal collection of the Emperor.
Copenhagen Zoo and the famous Tivoli had racialized and enslaved people on display far into the 20th century. That map is pretty useless. Sources are in danish, sorry: https://danmarkshistorien.dk/vis/materiale/vejleder-gennem-kina-i-tivoli-1902 https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/vi-elskede-de-farvede-i-zoologisk-have/ https://danmarkshistorien.dk/vis/materiale/sorte-boern-i-koebenhavn-1905
I forgot to mention them, but hilariously Denmark had human zoos of people from their overseas territories, but the Icelandic people were unhappy with being displayed not because it was inhuman or degrading, but because they considered themselves more civilized then the people of the Faroe Islands and Greenland lmao
Yes, scandinavian imperialism has its own disgusting flavour of racism. One might call it an aquired taste. Denmark is by far the worst. But Sweden's history, isn't exactly nice either. Just to mention one: The hundred years war. And in modern times all the former oppressed are doing nasty stuff in the same image as their oppressors. Finland to Russia. Greenland doing dirty deals with the US and China. Widespread corruption on the Faroe Islands. Norways robbery of the northern tribes. Icelands neo-liberal adventures. And then we haven't even started to cover, what the upper class is doing to their ethno-aligned working class in any of the nordic countries or their neo-colonialism. Interesting times.
I was just thinking theres no fucking way the netherlands didnt have human zoos.
Same for austria-hungary but i guess in that case its kinda hard to know what country to paint, just like the aztec empire; there is no real continuum between it and mexico.
Also for fun fact: its very likely that Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin the Aztec emperor which first encountered the spanish conquistadors housed said conquistadors in his zoo.
Hm. Cracker countries and countries that want to be cracker countries; show of hands, who's surprised?
Somehow, I suspect that even then, the Congolese and Indian human zoos were likely run by European colonials, not the locals. The Japanese on the other hand have no excuse.
Apparently according to the source of the map, they aren’t counting zoos put on by Imperialist nations in their colonial holdings since those nations didn’t have sovereignty in making those decisions.
They marked India because of the Andaman Islands incident where the local government and police forced the indigenous population to perform as savage native peoples for tourists that they would take on human safaris. The police would torture, beat, kidnap, and sexually assault tribe members if they refused or didn’t perform to their liking. There is a famous video of a police officer throwing food at some native peoples before holding them at gunpoint and yelling for them to dance for the tourists because he has given them food.
This went on from the early 2000’s to 2015, when the scheme was revealed; which created massive outrage in the Indian government and UN. Thankfully everyone associated was imprisoned and the native populations hold more autonomy over the islands.
probably not what you were imagining, but here's one of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_quintuplets
Friendly reminder that there's more psychopaths in the world than you think there are.
Tell me more about the 94 French one. Was some kind of artistic performance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboula%27s_Village
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgda34/human-zoo-france-safari-africain
Bamboula's Village was an attempt to recreate an Ivory Coast village within the Planète Sauvage zoo in Port-Saint-Père, near Nantes, in France.
In 1994, the biscuit brand Biscuiterie Saint-Michel teamed up with the safari park to create the village, naming it "Bamboula's Village" after its "Bamboula" chocolate biscuits, which had a black mascot with the same name (a racial slur, dating from colonial times).
Twenty-five Ivorians, including children, were hired for six months to build and inhabit the village. They performed every day of the week, and received pay below the French minimum wage. Dancers were forced to work bare-chested despite bad weather. Performers' passports were confiscated; most lived confined to their huts (the park gate being closed in the evenings), which provided less space than required by labour law. Children were kept out of school, while medical care was provided by the zoo's veterinarians.
Anti-racist organisations and unions formed the group "Non à la réserve humaine" ["No to the Human Zoo"] and began legal action against the park. By the time that the court had sent an expert to document human-rights violations, the performers had been ordered out of the country. The village was closed in September of 1994. The park had to pay a symbolic one French franc (€0.15) in damages, plus legal fees. Bamboula's Village was demolished, and the Bamboula chocolate biscuit was no longer sold.
Look up the pics of the cookie, it was a black kid wearing caveman clothes
“Bamboula” [...] (a racial slur, dating from colonial times).
So this is how I learn that "bamboula", which everyone in my family uses to mean "a mess" ("c'est la bamboula!") is a racial slur... I guess I'm thankful I haven't heard the term be used in years, but still...
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