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The Dark Side of Carl Hagenbeck
Carl Hagenbeck was a German zookeeper who opened one of the first "human zoos" in 1874. He would take indigenous people from Africa, East India and anywhere he wanted and put them on display for people to gawk at. Some of the indigenous people were exhibited alongside huts and would wear bones as hair accessories. But there is also another reason why this worked: Many of these indigenous women didn't have a top on their bodies when they were bare-breasted,. They had never seen cherry blossoms before or anything like that.
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