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[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

international-community-1 international-community-2

[–] Wurzelfurz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Switzerland also had "Völkerschau". Translatable to Peoples Show.

Article in German: https://www.zoobasel.ch/de/aktuelles/blog/3/zoo-geschichte/160/voelkerschauen-im-zoo-basel/

[–] Nanook@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Netherlands and Austria-Hungary definitely also had human zoos.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.information.dk/indland/2009/09/vilde-mennesker-zoo

Denmark did this shit too

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I was going to say, I somehow doubt this didn't also happen in Denmark and the Netherlands

[–] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

It really is "always the same map"

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

They definitely had a human zoo at the cringe International Colonial and Export Exhibition in 1883, and possibly as late as 1928 but those sources are all in dutch

[–] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Dutch did not impose their language on Indonesia which means that they are not always wrong. They instead standadrdize the Malay language to create Indonesia which have elements of various local languages. The addition of Western European, Arabic, Sanskrit, and Chinese languages into Malay languages allows Indonesia to become a template for a neutral international language.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm kinda shocked it's not almost entirely red across the board, to be honest.

Also, really, Austria and Switzerland?? Is this on some technicality because those countries didn't exist yet or something? If Germany did it, I would bet good money I don't have that there would be exhibits in those countries too.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Austria and Switzerland have been around for more than 500 years longer than Germany. I’m sure more of these have had humans on exhibition to be gawked at like in fairs or circuses, but this is specifically about in a zoo.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

That makes sense, I think that's what it is.

The technicality is that it's for exhibits in zoos specifically. I was imagining circuses traveling throughout Europe with mobile exhibits, in which case I do think we'd see more countries indicated.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Hey, now we know a Dutch leftist probably made this map

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

The leading zoo doing this is still going strong btw https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/archiv/2022/Menschenzoo-Das-dunkle-Erbe-des-Tierparks-Hagenbeck,hagenbeck1448.html

[–] Idontevenknowanymore@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmmm

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"They're not slaves; we kind of pay them a little to build this shit"

[–] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Like the Indigenous children in Residential fake schools who were deprived of all the school funding benefits and allowance money from their parents.