Africa in the Zoo
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Topic: Africa in the Zoo
Posted By: Komnenos
Subject: Africa in the Zoo
Date Posted: 11-Jun-2005 at 01:21
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The Bavarian town of Augsburg is holding a festival of African culture, godd idea you may think, .....in the local Zoo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4070816.stm - Africa in the Zoo Any comments? Do you agree with me that this enterprise, at best, is in incredibly bad taste, or as its worst shows a racial and colonial attitude towards Africa and it's people? ------------- [IMG]http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i137/komnenos/crosses1.jpg"> |
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Posted By: cattus
Date Posted: 11-Jun-2005 at 01:35
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The campaigners against this are thinking too much and the one with the problems. If the people doing this dont have a problem then ..so what? ------------- |
Posted By: Komnenos
Date Posted: 11-Jun-2005 at 02:15
Part of the problem is that this "Culture Festival" stands in a tradition of "exotic" people being exhibited in German Zoos in the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th century. Even if today's motives are rather different, the organisers should have been aware of that and should have avoided to be part of this tradition. 
Poster of an exhibition of Singhalese people in Frankfurt Zoo in 1884 ------------- [IMG]http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i137/komnenos/crosses1.jpg"> |
Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 11-Jun-2005 at 12:32
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Germany puts her foot in it again. Due to the better part of humanity's insistance of seperating animals from humans, from spiritual matters, right down to how space is used and shared, hosting an exhibition about humans in a zoo is basicly asking for criticism. Given the historical context, it kind of becomes a no-no. That said i was under the impression that the actual exhibition is in a conference centre that is on the same site as the zoo, that could make it a bit different if the conference centre is normaly used for such functions. -------------  Arrrgh!!"
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