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after victory was achieved afro caribbean hindu african american cannot get african and asian soldiers from the french and the allied armies paraded on the show salusa and to the cheers of the crowds. this is the story on the program the human exhibitions after 1900 different now they are no longer savages around of course they remain natives and are not our equal signal but they no longer live in darkness if they are on the road to civilization and are portrayed as being at the service of the great colonial ational self is the gone national going to be the pacification of these territories the state and locals with the help of folklore exoticism it would be even a rada system if the truth of the result is a world that only functions due to the domination of the west just was the message remains the same george we are the masters and they are the native soil ago is a shit. color we was 21 when he agreed to leave his new caledonian homeland to travel to paris
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with 100 connex. it was 1931 he trusted the french official who suggested he in the others present they cannot culture at the colonial exhibition in paris. they were to return in 8 months some 100 people agreed to undertake the journey including teachers students customs officers fighters and seamen. little did they know that they would become the tragic heroes of one of the greatest humiliations in french history. in the shutdown looking little song modest was told he could not leave his enclosure unaccompanied to reste or pray. none of the promises made the camps he had been tricked it was it. he had returned
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to the 19th century. and i must it was terrible they had to perform from morning till night the women had to breastfeed in public they had to build dug out and danced all day me. it is the school or they were slaves i think that violates the law of dignity is even though nobody died people should not treat other people like that it's a little. bit some of the troop went to germany while twice a week the others performed at the colonial exhibition in paris. the organizers exhibited them as natives from you caledonia as part of the colonies official presentation. unlike in the john baldock limiters
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throne they were not presented as savages but as bone natives of the empire. france was to showcase the scope of an empire which was at its peak with a population of $100000000.00 and an area twice that of the roman empire. came as nearly as was a colonial exhibition was 2 to 3 times the size of disneyland paris and it took place not outside but in the center of paris in former workers districts that have been completely redesigned at the time the cinema was still in its infancy sound film had just been invented and here an entire colonial empire was now being recreated in orbit it was like hollywood will soon know. the exhibition was inaugurated by the president just all demurred. and russia will take joined by the
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undersecretary of state for the colonies blaze began. in just a few months 33000000 tickets were sold. in school and to celebrate suffolk 931 as the peak of the should do for a long period is not to say that a real decline was starting. it was important to show that france's history which had cost a lot of money was calculus parliamentary debates had finally paid off to a new room to do so and that the promise of educating inferior people to a level not too far removed from the nation's standards had been achieved and that it was over. all over the world voices will beginning to denounce human seems for the 1st time an enormous scandal erupted in france the human rights like the communists and even former communists of new caledonia were protesting all agreed that such displays were unacceptable you could not glorify
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the civilizing mission or colonize sation and at the same time exhibit fake savages . the connect spain exhibit in germany also started rebelling and were less and less willing to play the game. the protest prompted the minister of colonies to order the shot out of kentucky strong to close the exhibition and to bring back part of the troop in germany as hard. at stake was the honor of the french republic which could not be seen to be condoning such productions. the authorities decided to repatriate troops that connects arrived home in july 1932.
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mario's colorway did not wish to return he saw his future in france and refused to board the ship in mass a and returned to the woman he loved she was french the name was juliet gabrielle far from and missing her was the only good luck it had in france. a few weeks later the couple married in border. if what is surprising is that the marriage contract here says the future wife wishes to keep her french nationality out the venison a difference is basically because converts were considered to be foreignness even though they came from the french colony. so that was born one year later she was only a few months old when mom died in a tram accident. her family always in the fact that her father was
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a canal. only in her old age she discovered her origins thanks to a journalist friend. today so vet has returned to the zoological gardens where her father was exhibited . belfast it was something i was able to it's a french but also new caledonian a story on i'm proud because it was my father but the way he was treated is shocking. to father who suffer it's not a very nice story especially as i never got to know him. this place touches me this i think it shows i have the feeling that these people are always present here. this film. so that arranged for marius is remains to be returned to new caledonia in 2006.
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today he rests among his people in national cemetery on the island of leave. your number 2 on i knew he returned by ship and took him to the try they prepared food to the children so everyone spoke about his story he has returned to his back home. the exhibition of the k'nex was one of the last in europe the scandal was so great that such shows were no longer possible. and the decade prior to
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the 2nd world war humans zeus and colonial exhibitions gradually ceased. the last of such it's a business took place at the end of the decade in britain portugal germany and italy there were no longer profitable public was tired of them. only a few diehards hung on but their productions were so blatantly mediocre that visitors shunned them. at. the end if humans use the start of revolts heralding to colonize nation was to abandon the zoos whose to abandon colonial domination a new era had begun but one of conflict and suffering. in the next 20 years from 942960 would be the darkest and most violent of the 20th
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century the 2nd world war the colonized sanction the results against segregation in the united states away from a violent struggle swept almost the world. this long chapter of history really only concluded when the colonies won their independence from the mid 950 s. through need 970 s. . from their onwards the west will try by any means to raise this shameful past. if that is rumored to be able to do it will so the history of the human zoos is forgotten because it belongs to the history of folk culture not to the great colonial history that is like goals were solved with the researchers of the 50 states has found this phenomenon completely irrelevant or god there is actually a view today are beginning to rediscover all this and ask ourselves the simple question of how could people in the west to believe that human beings on the other side of the ocean were all savages really so that.
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in the mid 1900 scientists a museum directors began to open the cranks search the archives and even to examine remains. world and all of it is important to study the past in order to understand what is happening in the present says read the book for example if you want to understand why racism exists in our societies you only have to look at the human zoos through the history of colonization and slavery a 1000000 or more only then will you understand why there are still a claim for a superior domination today india in goodness or. the latest past to rest the body must rest in peace. one day send home the bodies of the exhibited as we did in the past the tambo. will we one day write down moloko story
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into the history books of guyana and also france all that of money has colorway to overcome the conflicting memories that persist not wasted new caledonia what can we do so that one day the body of autumn banga is reclaimed by the konger and written into the country's history. it is now the duty of a generation to rescue these stories from oblivion only by creating and in the light and culture of remembrance can we finally close the chapter on human sears. was. that. bad.
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