tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5097176917595937964.post4200399661974680106..comments2024-01-10T15:55:48.156+01:00Comments on The Things I Enjoy: "The city of dwarfs" - A human zoo in Paris in 1906Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5097176917595937964.post-49997541719131902102014-07-29T21:49:11.622+02:002014-07-29T21:49:11.622+02:00Thank you for interesting post. To Nick to answer,...Thank you for interesting post. To Nick to answer, I know a little bit about these "Cities of Dwarfs", because of I have some short people in my friends, and I got interested about the subject. <br /><br />At times when "human-zoos" were built, there was not equal living possibilities to everyone. For example, if you were disabled in anyway (meaning, you couldn't do the normal "man's job"), you only had thin chance to earn your own living. Even though living in a dwarf city was humiliating and made the common treatment of short people even worse, those working in zoos had no chance to choose something else. They might thought, that they just had to stand the poor treatment, and they'd get their living and even environment where it was possible to them to live somehow "normal" life. <br /><br />I think it's the same thing than the "tree-men" in today's India. Performing in circuses and places like that, they'll earn much enough to survive alive, even though the environment isn't what they'd prefer as human beings if they were health. <br /><br />Sad but true, we rather pay to amuse ourselves by seeing oddity than to help those in need.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5097176917595937964.post-84195385537138801052013-12-09T21:40:49.919+01:002013-12-09T21:40:49.919+01:00Nick,
Thank you for your comment. I am afraid I do...Nick,<br />Thank you for your comment. I am afraid I do not have any additional sources, but knowing your interest, I will keep an eye on the subject. Who knows, maybe something of interests for you turns up. Would appreciate, If you at a later stage would be so kind and let me know about how your work proceeds. I also visited your webpages, which contain a lot of interesting stuff. NNoNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11211745852147274205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5097176917595937964.post-54733281471908152352013-12-09T20:55:00.692+01:002013-12-09T20:55:00.692+01:00Thanks for your interesting post. A difficult peri...Thanks for your interesting post. A difficult period of our history to come to terms with.<br /><br />I am researching these "human zoos". In particular I am trying to find out how the participants were recruited. I am not sure of the terms to use here. But my interest is in finding if these people were volunteers, impressed, or prisoners. And if they left any testimony.<br /><br />Do you have any sources that I might look into.NickLufthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07154425473446015309noreply@blogger.com