Christian Karembeu is a French footballer, a European champion, taking the third place among the best players of the xx century on Oceania. At first sight, an ordinary star who is respected by millions of fans...

 But there is a very interesting thing about him – although being a French footballer, he never sang the French national anthem - La Marseillaise. He did so in memory of his great-grandpaexhibited at the Human Colonial Exhibition in a Paris museum in 1931.

Human Zoo - once a common form of entertainment in the West for the general public in the XIX - early XX century, whose purpose was to demonstrate immigrants from Asia and Africa in the natural and sometimes primitive savage form and also those people who had physical abnormalities. Similar zoos pronounced racist overtones, exhibiting those people next to the monkeys to show their common origin. 

Today, Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale is seen as a stain in the history of France. But then more than 35,000 men, women and children were brought as exhibits in human zoos, most of them – against their will.

      

       Five Indians kidnapped from Chile in 1881 and exhibited in the human zoo. Died after a year in Europe.                                                                                      

Ota Benga, a pygmy from the valley of the Congo. In 1916, unable to return to his native Congo, he shot himself.

Labrador Eskimos family. In the course of five months they all died of smallpox, to which they had no immunity. Abraham Ulrikab had a diary in which he described all the humiliations his family had experienced from the missioners.

  

Sarah Baartman

The fact that she had protruding buttocks and society view her as this “wild or savage female”. She was then considered to be part of the "Negro race," which at the time was considered the lowest race of humans. She was sometimes likened to an orangutan instead.

It’s said for the nowadays European liberals to admit their grandfathers and fathers willingly made ​​money on human suffering. The last human exhibit disappeared from European zoo only in 1935 in Basel and in 1936 in Turin. But the last "temporary exhibition" with blacks was in 1958 in Brussels at the Expo, where the Belgians introduced "Congolese village with its residents."  Such a cavalier violation of international human rights!  So cruel and inhumane that I even have no words to say anything…