I believe many people have seen a movie called "Planet of the Apes", in which orangutans become the masters of the planet and give birth to civilization.
Humans, on the other hand, have been reduced to a marginal species, dependent on orangutans for survival. And in this movie, everyone must be familiar with such a scene, that is, humans are locked in a cage, just like humans treat wild animals, and are watched by orangutans.
When I saw this scene for the first time, I was very shocked, one was shocked by the tragic fate of human beings reduced to "animals", and on the other hand, the brain hole that shocked this movie was too big.
It was only recently that it was discovered that this was not a brain hole, but a real event that once happened on Earth, and of course, it was not orangutans that put humans in zoos. It's their own kind, putting people in zoos, and it's the Westerners who claim to be civilized who do it.
This is the infamous "human zoo", where the Western world keeps black natives like animals, in enclosures for others to buy tickets to see, feed, and satisfy their curiosity.
Those natives are no different from the other animals in the zoo today, they have no freedom, they don't have any privacy, and in the eyes of the Western world, they are not "people", but "animals" that can be used for their own entertainment.
The natives in these human zoos may not be treated as well as the animals, because most of them have been abused to death. Many people must think that these inhumane human zoos are just a few.
Then you must be wrong, because these human zoos used to be very popular in Europe and the United States, and like other zoos, human zoos are everywhere.
The last human zoo was not forced to close until 1958, and it was only three years since the first human astronaut flew into space.
And in just over half a century, people have gradually begun to forget this history, as if it never happened.
To trace the roots of the human zoo to the 15th century, it actually originated from a sea voyage in the 15th century, which was the famous discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, and when Columbus arrived on the American continent, the nightmare of the Native Americans officially began.
The simple Native Americans thought they were friends from afar and warmly entertained Columbus and his party, but they didn't expect to usher in demons, which almost cut off the vitality of the Native Americans.
When Columbus returned, he kidnapped some Native Americans and returned them to Europe. After seeing these different-looking Native Americans, Europeans were wide-eyed and curious.
Immediately, a business was born, and then these Native Americans were locked up with wild animals as a gimmick to attract business, which also pioneered a human zoo.
Unlike today, these zoos existed at the time, but they did not cater to the general public, but became a collection of wild animals that were seen by the European aristocracy at that time.
They would compare with each other, whose number was more and whose "animal" was more novel, which also became the capital of the European aristocracy at that time to show off to each other.
For a long time, although human zoos existed objectively, their scope was not very wide, and they only existed in the private hands of some nobles.
The real rise of the human zoo was not until the 18th century, when European countries began to colonize and expand, and the black indigenous people were traded as commodities.
From this period, human zoos began to enter the field of vision of ordinary people, began to be popularized in a large area, and became a seasoning agent in people's daily life.
In order to increase the ornamentality, the Europeans would build an indigenous village, and these black African natives would live in the indigenous village, surrounded by a fence, in which they would live without their own space, and they would learn to please visitors, or they would be subjected to inhuman abuse by the owners of the human zoo.
When visitors enter the human zoo, different indigenous villages will put some labels, which are just like the basic introduction of wild animals in zoos today. Including the origin, physical characteristics, customs and habits of these black aborigines.
In addition to these, the black aborigines are often required not to wear clothes, to be presented in front of the audience in their original form, and these black aborigines also ask for some special performances, and when the black aboriginal performances are recognized, these so-called "tourists" feed them like animals.
Ordinary people will find it very novel when they first watch it, but the more times they watch it, they will gradually lose interest. At this time, the owners of the human zoo began to look for those "strange" and "strange" African natives.
It was in this context that the South African girl Sarah Bartman was targeted by the colonists at the time because of her special size, South Africa was a British colony at the time, and the British even coaxed her to bring her to Britain.
Sure enough, after being brought to England, Sarah's peculiar appearance quickly aroused the curiosity of the British, and she was kept in a cage all day long, exhibiting everywhere.
After four years of being exhibited, visitors gradually lost their initial sense of novelty and fewer and fewer people came to see Sarah, so in order to squeeze out the value of Sarah, the British merchant sold Sara to a French circus, where Sara not only had to satisfy the curiosity of others, but also cooperated with the animal trainer to pretend to be a beast to entertain the audience.
Because of these inhuman treatments, Sara's body was destroyed, and under the overwhelming burden, Sara, who was only 26 years old, died in the world, and after Sarah's death, don't think that this matter is over.
These people did not treat Sara as a human being at all, and even after death, they still had to extract value from her, and the body was sold to the laboratory to be dissected in the name of science, and after the autopsy, the French published the autopsy report in the "Return of the Natural History Museum".
There is only one main conclusion: it belongs to a species between humans and animals. From this conclusion, it can be seen that Westerners at that time regarded the black natives as completely human, but regarded them as a transitional species between humans and animals that had not successfully evolved.
The advent of Sara also led to the differentiation of human zoos, which operated in the original zoo model on the one hand, and Westerners, who had tasted the sweetness on the other hand, began to put those novel African natives in circuses and perform with animals.
After being dissected, Sara was not buried until 180 years later, and during these more than 180 years, she was made into a specimen and placed in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris for exhibition, until 2002, at the strong request of the South African side, the ill-fated Sara was transported back to South Africa for burial, and it has been almost 200 years since she was deceived from her homeland.
Most of these people who are kept in human zoos have a very miserable fate, because they are susceptible to some bacteria and viruses that Europeans think are common, but they are very deadly for them.
In addition, due to the relatively poor living environment, limited activity space, and long-term inhuman treatment, both physical and mental damage have been seriously damaged. Some black Africans, unable to tolerate such a lifestyle, chose to commit suicide.
The explanation of the human zoo is not that the Westerners are kind, but that the African people who are gradually waking up from the independence of the global colonies at that time have begun to rebel, so that they have to stop holding human zoos.
And the last exhibition of the human zoo, which is what the West calls the Ethnographic Exposition. In 1958, a World Exposition was held in Belgium, and in order to make the exposition unique, Belgium invited 197 Congolese families from its colony, the Congo, to participate in the name of cultural exchange, with a total of 598 people.
It doesn't matter if it's just a cultural exchange, but the Congolese who were invited to come were locked up in quarantine fences and asked to perform like monkeys in order to get the attention of the tourists and give them food.
The moment when a Western woman fed a Congolese girl food was recorded, and then a photo titled "White Lady Feeding Black Girl" was widely circulated.
In the photo, a white woman wearing black sunglasses reaches out to feed the food to a black girl, who takes the food with both hands, and the people around her look at the scene with a monkey-like expression, with a high-minded, mocking and curious smile.
In the eyes of Westerners, how merciful the white woman was, and how she fed the black girl herself. And in the eyes of the blacks, this is a shame, and it is a naked shame for one's fellow citizens to be watched and fed like monkeys.
It was precisely because of this photograph that the Congolese people were completely enraged, and they began to rebel, and only two years later, in 1960, the Congo finally broke away from Belgian control, became independent, and established its own country.
It was also after this incident that the "human zoo" that had existed in the Western world for more than 300 years completely left the stage of history. Then, the West began to deliberately forget this history, and only more than half a century has passed, and everything about the human zoo seems to have disappeared from the dust of history.
Epilogue:
In fact, the human zoo that has existed for hundreds of years, not only blacks and South American natives, but also Asian yellow people, and there are Chinese who are locked up in it for Westerners to visit. I'm sorry!
This is the attitude of the supposedly civilized Westerners towards their non-white compatriots, and today, although the human zoo has disappeared from the surface, they still look down on others with that kind of overlooking eye.
Do not ignore the evil of human nature, they are able to respect us, not because their conscience has discovered, but because they have found us stronger. This is unacceptable to them, so they will frantically suppress us, trying to restore their former glory, trying to make a scene in the human zoo appear again in reality, some evil, can not be touched, only become stronger, and then stronger.
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