They definitely had a human zoo at the International Colonial and Export Exhibition in 1883, and possibly as late as 1928 but those sources are all in dutch
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, it primarily stems from the countries that engaged in global colonialist projects across the centuries, which is why I’m so surprised the fucking Dutch aren’t on the list concidering how their primary colonial project was primarily Indonesia and Malaysia western New Guinea in the form of the “Dutch east indies”
As to why so many Slavic nations weren’t doing so, they were either being ground under the boot of other europeans such as the poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, Irish, etc. Were too busy trying to maintain their decaying feudalist system in the modern era of capitalist imperialism such as the Turks and the Austrians. Or were too busy expanding frontier borders and pacifying internal rebellious ethnic groups a la the Russian Empire in their eastward drive with their own kinda sorta manifest destiny towards the Pacific.
I think it, in very reductive and simplified terms, primarily has to do with the material conditions those nations found themselves in, being late to the table in modernizing and thus struggling to engage in worldwide colonialism in conjuction to their political socio-economic backwardness of retaining feudal-aristocratic power over the bourgeoise middle class ultimately lead to those countries not throwing random fucking people in zoos to oggle at.
Ah, excluding the first category of “nations being ground under the boot of other nations”. They kinda were too busy with trying to achieve national self-determination to really.
And I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the Scandinavian nerds and why they didn’t do shit even though the Danes had some colonial outposts. I’d personally just guess they were too busy trying to flex on each other to really give a shit about being shitty imperialists that gawked at random people in zoos.
Edit: forgot the Swiss. Who gives two figs about 'em.
How in bog german hell did the Dutch manage to not be on the wrong side of history in this one specific instance?
They definitely had a human zoo at the
International Colonial and Export Exhibition in 1883, and possibly as late as 1928 but those sources are all in dutch
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.
Huh, guess I’ll make less Dutch jokes in the future. Thank you for sharing that info
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.
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.
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.
Well, it primarily stems from the countries that engaged in global colonialist projects across the centuries, which is why I’m so surprised the fucking Dutch aren’t on the list concidering how their primary colonial project was primarily Indonesia and
Malaysiawestern New Guinea in the form of the “Dutch east indies”As to why so many Slavic nations weren’t doing so, they were either being ground under the boot of other europeans such as the poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, Irish, etc. Were too busy trying to maintain their decaying feudalist system in the modern era of capitalist imperialism such as the Turks and the Austrians. Or were too busy expanding frontier borders and pacifying internal rebellious ethnic groups a la the Russian Empire in their eastward drive with their own kinda sorta manifest destiny towards the Pacific.
I think it, in very reductive and simplified terms, primarily has to do with the material conditions those nations found themselves in, being late to the table in modernizing and thus struggling to engage in worldwide colonialism in conjuction to their political socio-economic backwardness of retaining feudal-aristocratic power over the bourgeoise middle class ultimately lead to those countries not throwing random fucking people in zoos to oggle at.
Ah, excluding the first category of “nations being ground under the boot of other nations”. They kinda were too busy with trying to achieve national self-determination to really.
And I’m not particularly knowledgeable on the Scandinavian nerds and why they didn’t do shit even though the Danes had some colonial outposts. I’d personally just guess they were too busy trying to flex on each other to really give a shit about being shitty imperialists that gawked at random people in zoos.
Edit: forgot the Swiss. Who gives two figs about 'em.
Hey, now we know a Dutch leftist probably made this map