What Were Human Zoos?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

One of the off-putting byproducts of 19th century European colonialism were human zoos, living dioramas of people from far-away places made to be gawked at. Listen in to what the deeper meaning of humans zoos held people on both sides of the glass.

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0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and there's Jerry over there.
0:48.6	Again we have a special visitor today Chuck Jerry's Miso Soup.
0:53.8	Is that what that is?
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.8	She's checking her head.
0:56.8	No.
0:57.8	You lie Jerry.
0:58.8	That is Miso Soup.
0:59.8	I don't care what Jerry says.
1:00.8	It's Miso Soup.
1:01.8	Chuck is getting up to sniff it.
1:04.5	One of his beard hairs is dropped into Jerry's Soup.
1:07.4	Jerry's Miso Soup.
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