HIdden Philippines. Tribal Filipinos exhibited at Lousiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904 - human zoo

It is more fun criticizing

In 1904 Filipinos  were exhibited  as an oddity in Louisiana Purchase exposition.     To show life in the Philippines that we deserved to be colonized.     Filipino reservation 47 acres.   Over 1000...

How sad and how cruel...

Filipino life exhibited  47 acres.     Human zoos

Louisiana Exposition

Alongside the hot dog stands and carnival games, fairgoers could explore "human zoos," which were exhibits of real people who had been taken from their homelands. Brought from far-flung places, these people were "displayed" among re-creations of their native villages.

According to NPR, the Philippine village stretched for 47 acres and included more than 1,000 Filipinos from at least 10 different ethnic groups. The Philippines had just been acquired by the United States after the 1898 Spanish-American War, and fairgoers were curious about the "primitive" tribes.

But what they saw was hardly an accurate depiction. Fairgoers were told, for example, that the Igorots routinely ate dogs. Though Igorots only ate the creatures occasionally for ceremonial purposes back home, they were fed dog meat every day at the fair.

 Demeaning and dehumanizing  Ugly aspect of Phil Am relationships.     Ugly little brown bros.   Shameful...

Maybe they are not surprised on how much PHL has progressed after over a century   And someday, we will get ahead of the Big White Bros..  We have all that they have in their country.  We are a participant in many critical industries:   maritime, semicons, AI,  infrastructure and engineering.  We are ahead of them in GDP growth;   our economy is better off:   no end of petrodollars, no $39 trillion debt that can not be repaid; no trillion dollar war to be fought.   

Some of the tribes even produced beauty queens