france had one in the 90s btw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboula's_Village
The name’s a racial slur
Twenty-five Ivorians, including children, were hired for six months to build and inhabit the village. They performed every day of the week, and received pay below the French minimum wage. Dancers were forced to work bare-chested despite bad weather. Performers’ passports were confiscated; most lived confined to their huts (the park gate being closed in the evenings), which provided less space than required by labour law. Children were kept out of school, while medical care was provided by the zoo’s veterinarians.
The village was closed in September of 1994. The park had to pay a symbolic one French franc in damages, plus legal fees.
Raze France to the ground already
holy shit

One franc in damages; The system works
WTF
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Poland did had maybe not fully fledged human zoos but there were “Dahomey Amazon Shows” in several cities during partition period.
https://brill.com/view/journals/eceu/47/2-3/article-p285_285.xml
shows you how unequal the austrohungarian empire was, look at all those territories that used to belong to it, and they never even got any human zoos
slovenes, croatians, serbs, romanians and slovaks all had to live in the dark ages.
Add it to the pile of “The bad guys won the Cold War”
well 🇫🇷 well 🇬🇧 well 🇩🇪
Belgian. We INVENTED human zoos.












