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1. Human zoos were extremely popular in the West in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. They are sometimes called "ethnological exhibition", "exposition of people 'or' Negro village»





2. Such zoos appeared in Antwerp, London, Barcelona, ​​Milan, New York, Warsaw, Hamburg, each of which was visited by 200 to 300 thousand people.



3. The main attraction of the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 was the "village of blacks." The exhibition was visited by 28 million people



4. The most popular "negro village" used in Germany, where they were popular ideas of social Darwinism. Negro village he visited Bismarck



5. Five Indians Kawesqar (Tierra del Fuego, Chile) were abducted in 1881 and taken to Europe to show a human zoo. All five died a year later



6. Africans often exhibited next to the monkeys to show that they are closer to apes than to humans



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12. p.s. and that two times not to go - prostitutes in Japan, the end of the 19th century



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