In 1881, director Carl Hagenbeck Circus walks across Europe to a dozen men, women and children of ethnic Kawesqar (from Chile).
cages These are presented to the public of the old continent change the payment of an entry. The sight of these treasures anthropological contemplation of living does not last long, as subject to mistreatment and abuse of all kinds by their captors civilized, all eventually die of disease and starvation.
But I must say that this obscene display inclination to humans as trophies "exotic" or as if they were rare pieces of jewelry comes from and of old: for example, in the sixteenth century, a guy as famous as Ippolito de Medici enjoyed and was proud of his collection to people from several continents.
is from the nineteenth century when things normalize-colonial mentality, racial supremacy, new means of transport and communication, a kind of science behind ...- ethnocentric view and the practice of kidnapping human beings "inferior" and not evolved and display before the astonished eyes of the beholder race "superior" becomes more common, for the sake of an alleged disclosure of pseudoscientific court or, more prosaically, as a very profitable business in the hands of speculators and suppliers of entertainment without too many moral scruples, the image and likeness of the audience they were intended.
It is then that these human zoos are given the euphemistic bull by the name of traveling circus of wonders living anthropological exhibitions, music halls, fairs ...
Everyone wants to have their sample of colonized people, his treatise on natural science articles, his wonders wild and living proud to show to European citizens of the industrial revolution: Mexican microcephalic children, Siamese Thai Chilean cannibals, Tuaregs , primitive Malagasy naked and so forth.
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circus wonders as Barnum, Maurice Hagenbeck Maitre or make a killing by these acquisitions, anthropologists from all over Europe reported its living treasures ethnocentric theories about societal evolution and Darwinism. In Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 are shown Aboriginal selk'nam . Almost simultaneously, a group of Inuit (Eskimo) can be visited in "the garden of acclimatization" of Saint-Hillaire, along with their harpoons and sleds.
More than a million people passed that year by the so-called j acclimation Ardines "to contemplate the miracle of the Inuit.
also heaped with wild black cage scraping by morbid curiosity to quench the white European citizens. It was even brought to a poor African pygmy named Ota Benga , that you got to share a cage with an orangutan, so that citizens of the civilized world, is it not this a bit paradoxical? - Could observe in situ a living representative of the missing link between man and ape.
After enormous success also came the inevitable fall these degrading human zoos, in part thanks to the relentless pressure brought these practices by human rights defenders. Indecent exposure of human beings live, regardless of the purpose for which they were publicly exposed, was legal and socially sanctioned.
In the twentieth century scientific biological racism and ideology based on racial superiority budded in new forms and models. If ethnocentric fashion previously had consisted of the proliferation of these zoos to humans, racial discrimination now takes the form of the Aryan race, the Germanic nation, anti-Semitism or Zionism of apartheid, the racist Hollywood movie style "The Adventures of Tarzan" , or Palestinian Armenian genocide, xenophobia, of the extermination camps ... scrubbed and prejudices in a much more industrial, pragmatic and forceful, without complexes and calculatingly planned purges of ethnic groups and entire peoples.
In the twenty-first century this ideology of racial supremacy we can still be found in movements like the American Tea Party, which has taken over racist doctrine essential that paramilitary organization created in 1885 to the believers in the superiority of the white race dubbed the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
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the lazy, because they generally tend to be good people. 
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