Human zoos in Europe Bashny.Net

Not so long ago, people from France, Belgium, Germany and other European countries were entertained by the fact that Aboriginal people were staring at, trapped in cages like animals in so-called human zoos. The first of these "ideas" was organized in Paris in 1889. Then the "zoo" was attended by about 18 million people. Before the viewer is presented over four hundred natives and African aborigines.

At the end of the XIX century human zoos were very popular until the middle of the last century. At the beginning of the XX century a similar institution to operate in the US Bronx.