You can see here how we now face the dilemma of ethical museums. They originated for the amusement of the Europeans with no regard to the humanity of other people. I think this gives a good insight into the orgin and source of a lot of the negative european bias and what they were exposed too. Like we mentioned from a previous writing, many Europeans were not able to see first hand how brutal and dehumazing the colonization in Africa was. They were only told or shown what benefitted the outdated European agenda.

The Duala are a Bantu ethnic group of Cameroon. They primarily inhabit the littoral and southwest region of Cameroon and form a portion of the Sawabantu or "coastal people" of Cameroon. The Dualas readily welcomed German and French colonial policies.

This statement is very insightful to the perception of Germans from the indigenous african people. They viewed the Germans as authoritarian figures who were not even spoken to in a decent manner.

The Beti people are a Central African ethnic group primarily found in central Cameroon. They are also found in Equatorial Guinea and northern Gabon.

This is a very interesting point. Often times, we think that there is really nothing worse than the Nazi's and what they did. And while I don't think the two situations were completely similar, you can't deny the similarity in tactics used by both. Conquering and colonizing land was not something new or that only the germans were exclusively practicing.

Why do you think it is that many people disregard anything before WW2? Why has history and the colonial past of Europe been widely disregarded and ignored?

Would't everybody's definition of who is the "fittest" change with time and setting. Somebody might be really succesful in a metropolitan city, but not have the skills to survive in a more rural place. It is interesting that the German people would then try to use that concept to excuse their own behavior.

This is a very interesting distinction. I wonder if this has to do with ignorance or if the people were that uneducated. Did the german people not know about their own colonial past?

Once again, this reaffirms some themes we have seen in class. The idea of history being told through the a specific lense that is not necessarily accurate. Often times, the perspective of those being studied is told on a more emotional level, rather than using these stories as real factual first person accounts.

How can museums educate and serve their purpose in a way that is not harmful to others? Is there even a way for this to be done?

Similar to what we discussed in class about "why" people even want these remains. Maybe it is a prideful thing to be able to show that they "conquered" the people the claim to be so powerful over.

After conflicts with MOVE in Philadelphia including a firefight, police dropped two bombs on a MOVE building. This was highly criticized and the police department was condemned for this approach.

I thought that this was a very interesting paragraph and point. That these people are trying to evolve and move forward, but it is those european places that are holding them back.

This is a latin word that means trying to justify your argument with empirical evidence. This is very accurate because when know colonialism is wrong and in many ways dehumanizing. Also the logic with which historians and people of the time tried to rationalize it was backwards and wrong.