Today, organizations aiming to protect animal rights make many attempts to close zoos; Did you know that there were “human gardens” where people were exhibited until 64 years ago?
Western civilization is a civilization that many of us aspire to and we strive to imitate in almost every subject. While embracing the West, the fascist practices of some Western states in the past years. most of the time we don’t remember. Humanitarian gardens are one of these applications.
Today of human gardens We will touch on where they exist and why such a practice was implemented. If you’re ready, let’s open the zoos file.
Birth of human zoos
- A local African man and a teenager exhibited because of his teeth attracting attention
Although there is no clear information The first human zoos were built in the 1870s. opened. The first human zoos managed to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors. They will be impressed by this success that even in the Vatican there was a human zoo.
Since it was opened as a small section in a giant zoo, this situation in the Vatican only human garden We cannot deny the people exhibited here, although it is not possible to describe them as
People on display in human zoos
Eskimo girl
Usually in human gardens Native American, Kanak, Pygmy, Tatar, Turkish, African People with different skin color or physical appearance than Europeans were exhibited. There were also people who were dwarf, acromegaly (longer than normal), hunchbacked, disorientated, albino, extremely thin or overweight, and whose limbs appeared abnormal due to various ailments.
Other than their physical features, some groups that continue their lives as locals are exhibited with their local clothes, while people who draw attention with their skin are on display. in a motherly way opened to visitors.
They were sacrificing their zoos to science(!)
- A tribe pretending to live in its natural habitat
The human gardens attracted such great attention from the visitors that all the human gardens in the world up to 1.4 billion There are speculations that it hosts visitors.
Sometimes it comes to mind”Why are these people on display?Answers were given to the question, “Comparison of evolution, development of humanity over time, human population and modification”, and human gardens were presented as if they were innocent.
The West satisfied its people with human zoos
- Native American people on display in humanoid gardens
In many written sources, the West, by opening the human gardens to the public “There are such societies in the world and we are ahead of all these societies.It is also stated that he gave the message ”.
Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Italy, the USA and many other states, which many of us envy today, have been around for years. to the human gardens was one of the states.
World’s Fair and the end of a great shame
- A girl who was shown mercy (!) and given food by visitors because she was hungry
In a world where even animals were not exhibited in zoos, an order in which people were exhibited for years was of course unacceptable. Held in Paris, France in 1899 World’s FairThe display of people in ‘ started the first grunts about it.
As a result of the mass uprisings in the early 1900s, the human zoos were finally being closed; the first to officially ban him as a statesman, according to the BBC the greatest human enemy in recent history Adolf Hitler had happened.
Closed in Belgium in 1958 While the human zoo was the last officially closed human garden in the world; Even the use of people in short-term cultural exhibitions held in various countries from time to time reminded people of human gardens and was met with reaction.
While ending our content by wishing that all zoos that are currently in service should be added next to the closed human zoos; what about you about human gardens what do you think?
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