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tv   Projekt Zukunft  Deutsche Welle  May 9, 2021 9:30pm-10:00pm CEST

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this is not only in africa but also in japan as you go elsewhere as we see you you're born here you're. a little girl is the word exist in order for the savage to exist she goes who are presumed to be savages must accept that this is indeed exactly what they are the late victim. at the beginning of the $890.00 s. the role of human induced was shifting in response to political objectives which would mostly staged an orchestrated. moloko story is that of a survivor after months of humiliation she was able to return to his village and have people. 100 years later her descendants recalled the suffering of the exhibition people and
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shed light on the trauma. more nicole and her companions belong to the kenyan people 1000. 982 more eco together with other people in his village left the banks of the moroni river in guyana accompanied by the sound of. 32 others had fallen to undertake the journey to europe. there's also no one heard more there the old people told us that there was a big party before the parcher. if you're still remember a must and that the ship gradually disappeared over the horizon you screwed over than they could still see what was happening but going to shit really on the horizon there were side. it's going to snow says. the french explorer france one of
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oh sent by the military for colonies was able to convince the clean yet to head off into the unknown you offered the money in beautiful science and found just the day would be well treated. i think what it cost travel compared with or better if women and children forgave voluntarily or locked up in cages or what they were supposed to make pottery imperils up until dugouts instead they were forced to act as savages for the audience they were w. related in the process they were not accepted for who they were it was and they quickly realized that they are indeed regarded as savages. subjected to constant humiliation the killing her like all other people exhibit at the time was subjected to racial a scientific studies. a at.
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the end of the exhibition of that was a great success. in the public flocked to the shop and the came across to. the embodied to perfection what human savages longed to be like. the entire disease and exhaustion rapidly caused the deaths of some members of the troop in paris the show continued nonetheless. of the original 32000000 year who travel to france only 10 returned to their village. more legal was one of them. least of all the early here on this part of the clean you know history is very distressing because the people could not mourn the loss of a fairly very viscous of us either. grief is something very important vertical you
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go to people and even a century later it is still impossible to sort out. your present day. care only a mother and daughter they had to rick descendants of monaco they have never seen these photos of monaco and have fellow companions of misfortune taken my path and. that's more like oh that was a great grandmother's 1st name she was called all because of the name we don't know and the other one i want to she said they were afraid when they reached france and you know you guess what she said when she told me what happened everywhere is what i got him or when i feel sorry for them back then to get them but i'm a commander or. a champion i feel
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set them. forward and when i look at these photos here we've got a. monkey on the bike like father never talked about his grandmother leaving him a beautiful i've never seen these photos so it was your dream. but i can look at them now. if you were governor of the. past. unspoken trauma is something the descendants still struggled with today. you know by now but i don't think it was right out of organic what was the corner in boy the way the white people made them do all this nonsense is a way you know what did they want with them or ammeter at the such behavior is mistreatment and marble money to buy if a white man takes them away he must treat them fairly if you are such treatment was
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simply not correct what i made and you don't go in and they wanted to force their will want to color you had waited but maybe they did not play them i'm maybe that's what happened. nobody really knows what happened back then no one could. 2 come any really exist there is no textbook course about indigenous history or story of how are you on today to know historian has dealt with this aspect. of it yet it is part of our identity said also a facet of c. history france released 12 of the false that's why we are so interested in this today we're told in. the exhibition of the killing it was an important 1st step towards the state it's for tension of the colonized people for propaganda purposes. the ministry of
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colonies took control of human exhibitions private shows now needed its all cries asian. on the production spread across the atlantic america was now also getting involved of all the people's exhibit is a monster attempt in terms of popular. 6 diminutive africans attracted everyone's attention they were backward pekinese from the belgian congo to the said louis anthropology department had financed an african expedition led by the explorer samuel van not to bring them to be presented exclusively if the exhibition. who also bengal was one major 41 in height this young man with the enigmatic smile was soon to become the most popular among. samuel verner was commissioned explicitly to bring back paid me because
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it was believed at that time that they were the least civilized people on the planet and the whole point of the st louis world's fair was to map human progress from the lowest to the highest with the pygmies said to represent the lowest form of humanity. and since i was in 85 the congo had been the property of the building king leopold the 2nd his authority was unchallenged and his rule was particularly violent and hosh acts of brutality were commonplace. and. salmon vine unself said how he captured the pagans he wrote about how the people were crying as he was like loading most people on to the ships and. got away he also indicated how he had gone into villages with force he was armed and he
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had consent and the support of a good all regime to exercise his mission. of all the so-called specimens presented at the exhibition the pygmies around the branches cheering. among the visitors. they represented absolute savagery. this small stature was due to move from logical adaptation to living in the equitorial rainforest. according to westerners it signified that there was subhuman . they saw in the confirmation of man's descent from fights proof of darwin's famous theory of the missing link between man and animal. day after day after being the was treated to the american spoke and contends.
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a lot of anger steve will probably most responsible for the horrendous experience he had in the united states because of his teeth which war shipped to points a very common practice in the congo this imagery of validated is idea that he had been a cannibal on a horse he was. just deception consummate his samuel then a success he received the st louis gold medal at the closing ceremony of the exhibition which attracted almost 20000000 visitors. after traveling to the congo again the explorer finally took auto banga to new york is american adventure had resumed but behind boss it was not you know 6 saddle than
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it was unable to provide for his pygmy so he loaned him to the head at the bronx zoo who put him in a monkey cage. he was made to play the savage with bow and arrow his props in a few short years more than 40000 people came to see him in enclosure he shared with a chimpanzee. his new partner with him he performs small tricks. there's an outcry and the press and not just the african-american press but increasingly in the mainstream press that this is so degrading and so contrary to what a civilized nation should be doing that so with orders together with some of the ministers in new york got work out arrangement to have bangor conveyed to an orphanage. now for a new can of a religious community also being a hope finally to be able to integrate into his adopted country the black ministers
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who took him in in 1910 gave him a western christian education he went to primary school and took english lessons subsequently he was sent to lynchburg virginia where he got to know and spencer i respected african-american poet and civil rights activist. she taught him to write . protected and supporters also been good try to live a normal life and go to work. but as a congo pygmy he could not adapt to the country of the ku klux klan. while the end of the story is 1st world war breaks out and it's clear to bangor that it's going to be very very difficult to get back to the congo have we don't know exactly what precipitated saxon but you know he takes his own life. as
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a gun and leaves his residence shoots himself through the heart. of the time of his death toll views are asked to come to the united states it was the most famous savic in american show business. his body was never claimed by the common. the yard in. the us is the leader of bengal stories the story of racism in the thousands of people who stared out of anger and fail to see if she was being if it's even we can see how throughout history these men and women have been denied their humanity in order to justify the alleged superiority of white people in the us in the gold rush .
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gas the 1st world war reset attitudes towards exhibiting people and to colonial operations to great powers britain and france chose out of economic and military opportunism to enroll people from their companies. they now believe they can be civilized and useful if they can be kept under supervision yesterday savages which days brave soldiers all indigenous workers. in the eyes of the countries they fight for am now fighting an even move primitive savage. the germans.
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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 caray did on the show solicitation of the keys of the krauts. is in this room and the girl made the human exhibition that are 1800 different now they are no longer savages the rush of sir. they remain natives and are not already quite sick but they no longer live in darkness is there on the road to civilization and are portrayed as being at the service of the great colonial nations cell is the one that's are going to look past the vacation of these territories the state of metals with the help of folklore exoticism it would even eroticize of voters of the result is a world that only functions due to the domination of the west just was the message remains the savior george we are the masters and they are the natives sluggo 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 a 100 connex. it was 1931 he trusted the french official who suggested he in the others present they connect 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 shadow of a committal throne mario's was told he could not leave his enclosure unaccompanied to rest or price. none of the promises made with caps he had been tricked it was as if he had returned to the 19th century.
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m.m.f. it was terrible they had to perform from morning till night the women had to breastfeed in public they had to build and dance the whole day. it is a scam or they were slaves i think that violates human dignity is even though nobody died people should not treat other people like that it was. some of the trip went to germany while twice a week the others performed at the colonial exhibition in paris. the organizers exhibited them as natives from new caledonia as part of the colonies official presentation. unlike in the shahbandar came
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a touchstone they were not presented as savages but as bono natives of the empire. france wish to showcase the scope of an empire which was at its peak with a population of 100000000 and an area twice that of the roman empire. almost nearly as it was a colonial exhibition was 2 to 3 times the size of disneyland in paris and it took place not outside but in the center of paris in former workers districts that had 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 it was like holy auditor so when. the exhibition was inaugurated by the president just all the men and machine will take joined by the
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undersecretary of state for the colonies blaze. in just a few months 33000000 tickets were sold. unscrupulous of advancing the bridge suffolk $931.00 as the peak should be fully prepared is not to say that a realtor client will start. you. know this just it was important to show that france is history which would cost a lot of money it was coatless parliamentary debates and has finally paid off the new entrepreneurs and the promise of educating your farrier people to a level not too far removed from the nation standards have been achieved that people. all over the world voices were beginning to denounce human assume. 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
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glorify the civilizing mission or colonize station and at the same time exhibit fake savages. the connects being exhibited in germany also started rebelling and were less and less willing to play the game. the protests prompted the minister of colonies to order the shot out of king tut's wrong to close the it's a bishop and to bring back part of the troop in germany and harken back. 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 to k'nex arrived home in july 1932.
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marios 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 her name is julia to gabriele fafsa and missing her was the only good luck it had in france. a few weeks later the couple married in border. what is surprising is that the marriage contract here says the future wife wishes to keep her french nationality out the venison the difference is basically because converts were considered to be foreignness even though they came from a french colony. sylvette was born one year later she was only a few months old when mario died in a tram accident. her family always hate the fact that her father was
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a canary. only in her old age she discovered her origins thanks to a journalist friend. today some vet has returned to the zoological gardens where her father was exhibited. there are also in a song that i would pay them it's a french but also new caledonian a story in their own i'm proud because it was my father but the way he was treated is shocking. about the new song it's not a very nice story especially as i never got to know him. this place touches me it's officials i have the feeling that these people are always present here. on. a range from arias says remains to be returned to new caledonia in 2006. today he
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rests among his people in not a low cemetery on the island of leave. your number 2 when i mean he returned by ship and took him to the try they prepared food to the children and 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. 'd in the decade prior to
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the 2nd world war humans zoos 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 was so blatantly mediocre that visitors shunned them. at. the end of him and sues back the start of revolts heralding decolonized national bourse to abandon the souse was to abandon colonial domination a new era had begun but one of conflict and suffering. in . the next 20 years from 140960 would be the darkest and most violent of the
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20th century the 2nd world war the colonized nation the revolt against segregation in the united states away from a violent struggle swept all over the world. this long chapter of history really only concluded when the colonies won their independence from the mid 1950 s. through in the mid 1970 s. . in their own words. the west will try by any means to raise this shameful past. if that is rumored to be you could do it was the history of the human zoo this forgotten because a belongs to the history of focal chernobyl yet not to the great colonial history that is our goals were sold the researchers of the 50 states found this phenomenon completely irrelevant governor is actually to day we're beginning to rediscover all this and ask ourselves the simple question of how could people in the west believe that human beings on the other side of the ocean were all savages really so that.
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in the mid 1990 scientists in museum directors began to open the cranks search the archives and even to examine remains. in temples. it is important to study the past in order to understand what is happening in the present as you would want to call qualia 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 for immediate or more history only then will you understand why the rest in a claim for a superior domination today in goodness. to lay this 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 a long way to overcome the conflicting memories that persist not least of new caledonia what can we do so that one day the body of autumn bend that is reclaimed by the conga 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 life and culture of remembrance for me finally close the chapter on human soon. i.
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