View Full Version : If Europe is so progressive
The Notorious LOL
10-17-2006, 02:04 PM
why were there Africans in the zoo in Brussels as late as the 1950s?
b i o n i c
10-17-2006, 02:06 PM
holy fuck, that cant be true
TurdBerglar
10-17-2006, 02:07 PM
hahaha!
Not just in the 50's.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,359304,00.html
A Human Zoo, for Real!
Talk about politically incorrect. Zoo organizers in the southern German city of Augsburg have come up with the idea of putting Africans on display at their zoo as an uncoventional way to attract more visitors. That's right. They want to create a living "African Village" featuring African basket weavers, woodworkers and storytellers posed among huts located near other African inhabitants, like elephants and rhinos. The idea is to let visitors gawk at -- or as their brochure says -- "discover the Dark Continent." Plans for the show -- scheduled to open July 9 -- have engendered outrage from Africans and civil rights advocates across Europe, but particularly those in Germany. Historian Norbert Finzsch, provost of the University of Cologne, too, has lambasted the project, insisting it underscores that in Germany "people of color are still seen as exotic objects (of desire), as basically dehumanized entities within the realm of animals." Finzsch insists the idea to hold such a display is "the direct result of 40 years of German colonialism and 12 years of National Socialism.
Zoo organizers seem to be painfully oblivious to their insensitivity and claim to be at a loss to understand the commotion. For instance, in a written reply to a Swiss African protestor, zoo director Barbara Jantschke, insisted that the idea was not to offend people. Instead, she said, the zoo is "exactly the right place to convey an exotic atmosphere." Nor could she understand the brouhaha, after all, one of the organizers is himself "a native African with black skin." Ever heard of sensitivity training? (1 p.m. CET)
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I don't know how valid the site is...plus its from 6/2005.
TurdBerglar
10-17-2006, 02:19 PM
i can sit on the porch and see africans. i need no fucking zoo
ms.peachy
10-17-2006, 02:29 PM
To play devil's advocate for a moment... How is this a radically different idea to, say, all of the different countries in the "World Showcase" at EPCOT?
korn_phr33k
10-17-2006, 02:30 PM
i dont even know what to say really, all that comes to mind is "what the fuck?"
korn_phr33k
10-17-2006, 02:30 PM
To play devil's advocate for a moment... How is this a radically different idea to, say, all of the different countries in the "World Showcase" at EPCOT?
because at epcot people arent "on display", they work there.
because at epcot people arent "on display", they work there.
HAHAHAHA....do you really think that they would round up these people in germany and throw them in a cage??? HAHAHAHAH
I'm sure these people would be compensated for their time.
roosta
10-17-2006, 02:37 PM
Well....we had African's in our zoos in the '50s, and we're still more progressive than you lot. OWN GOAL!
Echewta
10-17-2006, 02:37 PM
I think we should bomb europe and the middle east and turn it all into a parking lot.
korn_phr33k
10-17-2006, 02:45 PM
HAHAHAHA....do you really think that they would round up these people in germany and throw them in a cage??? HAHAHAHAH
I'm sure these people would be compensated for their time.
i was half kidding anyways, but yeah.
Parkey
10-17-2006, 02:57 PM
Where's Brussels?
Echewta
10-17-2006, 02:58 PM
In the frozen veggie aisle.
korn_phr33k
10-17-2006, 03:03 PM
oh...im dum. sorry.
its just hard to display sarcasm on the internet. no problem.
Drederick Tatum
10-17-2006, 03:07 PM
why were there Africans in the zoo in Brussels as late as the 1950s?
well they were probably fed and watered...and not with fire hoses.
chrisd
10-17-2006, 03:16 PM
ask helvete
The Notorious LOL
10-17-2006, 03:28 PM
well they were probably fed and watered...and not with fire hoses.
touche'
Canada sucks.
chrisd
10-17-2006, 05:11 PM
if k-fed is such a good rapper
mp-seventythree
10-17-2006, 05:29 PM
I think we should bomb europe and the middle east and turn it all into a parking lot.
Most of England is already pretty much a parking lot
Planetary
10-17-2006, 05:38 PM
Most of England is already pretty much a parking lot
you kidding me? i can never find a bloody carpark. and if i do its full. :mad:
TurdBerglar
10-17-2006, 05:45 PM
are car parks like dog parks?
your poor car :(
Planetary
10-17-2006, 05:49 PM
no it's a place you park your car. hence the name.
TurdBerglar
10-17-2006, 05:50 PM
oh i thought i was a place for cars to play!
Otis Driftwood
10-18-2006, 02:37 AM
Could they buy a ticket for the zoo in the US of the 50s???
na§tee
10-18-2006, 08:10 AM
i think the idea of this "african village" is just to have a snapshot of what life is like in rural africa - haven't you ever been to those weird places as a kid where everyone was dressed up in olde victorian times or miners or crofters or summat? (erm, maybe that's just me) and this is just another educational tool as it were. after all, there would only be african people in a (traditional) african village so they're just trying to create a realistic, erm, environment. you would never hear this sort of reaction if people were to create 1800 london, would yah? also, i'm sure the actors (as they will be actors) will be paid handsomely for their time.
saying that, i don't like the language in that article - "dark continent", "exotic atmosphere" etc etc.
Tone Capone
10-18-2006, 09:24 AM
It's because before Europeans turned all.... "European". They were the biggest bad asses in the world.
mp-seventythree
10-18-2006, 01:15 PM
you kidding me? i can never find a bloody carpark. and if i do its full. :mad:
Have you never been on the M25?
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