African Pygmy Thrills, 1930s

A film about pygmies from the 1930s. Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.travelfilmarchive.com

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[moatwog]

The obviously condescending racist comments aside, this video is fucking amazing. We are taught that "primitive" hunter-gatherers wander around, never building anything. These people are direct descendants of my ancestors, sailing east out Africa through India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Papau New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. In Hawai'i, they built stone bridges with no mortar, and created aquaculture, giant fish ponds with rocks and sticks. This is my hypothesis, anyway.

[NewOrleansboii]

@20xxFishSpineOff There is evidence. Every human being today can trace their DNA back to Africa. Since Homo Sapien developed in Eastern Africa, it's common sense that Europeans and Africans are of the same. Yep, Facts are facts

[Julius44bc]

These guys are good, but they were no match for Tarzan.

[ad4630]

i am a proud African American and extremely proud to be closely related to these great engineers--who cares what Europeans think if they prefer ignorance--well?

[antisatan7]

2. Then, some facken guy will see it in the future and try to be too facken funny in a comment about it. Fack yeah! And, what really makes it funny is that he will have to use too facken sections of comment spaces because the facken "Super Advanced" peoples of the future, will only let you type a facken of a paragraph per facken space. FACK YEAHHHHH!

6:53 - 6:57

[antisatan7]

1. Looks like a shizz load of fun! They're like: Yeah, lets facken, tie a facken, vine to the other side of the facken river today. Yeah, the whole facken community...all the people. Yeah, no faken taxes. Yeah, no faken speeding tickets. Yeah, were gonna tie this little guy to the facken vine and swing his facken sazz a gillion miles a second to the other side! We'll facken let "advanced" peoples record it.

[radiodiary1]

This is what you call....Engineering...and Math...without going to the University...................

[an5d5ers]

@NewOrleansboii yeah, and that is because they are different... if they were the same, they would fit into the culture fast... imperialism is evil

[NewOrleansboii]

@an5d5ers First of all, the Africans as you see them today are products of what happened during European colonization. Europeans built infrastructures that need daily maintenance. The Europeans did not allow the Africans to learn, or receive knowledge of how to work these tools. Bantu Education system was more about Labor, and less about mathematics, or industrial concepts. The problem with African countries is their Government tribalism, and Religious extremist that halt prosperity.

[NewOrleansboii]

@an5d5ers Yeah, and that's perfectly fine that people have differences. Even people of the same race has difference. But does that mean they should be treated any differently?

[an5d5ers]

@NewOrleansboii i dont talk about ancient civilisations, ashati kingdom and the nubians are also black civilisations, but i talk about now. I ment, why cant africans make a civilisation based on western civilisation like in europe, like in africa today? because, they dont have it in their blood.. if they had a modern african based civilisation, they would live mutch better...

[an5d5ers]

@NewOrleansboii I dont say so, and i dont "suppress" any race, i just say there is differences in the average man in the different races