In modern times, we have become consumers in the great consumer society, are we any happier than the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa?
This hearkened back uncomfortably to earlier beliefs that some modern races such as the African " Bushmen" (properly the Kalahari San) and Australian Aborigines were more primitive than others.
People who grew up in spaces with clear corners were fooled most of the time, whereas bushmen from southern Africa, tribespeople from Angola, and Kalahari hunter-gatherers almost always perceived the lines as identical.
Eurasian germs played a key role in decimating native peoples in many other parts of the world, including Pacific islanders, Aboriginal Australians, and the Khoisan peoples (Hottentots and Bushmen) of southern Africa.
While the text box acknowledges the offensiveness of the term " Hottentot" (but not " Bushmen" ), it blithely endorses this usage by claiming that it remains an accepted term in the Russian language.
One vivid example is a text box explaining that the " Hottentots" (Khoikhoi) and " Bushmen" (San) comprise a separate " racial type, " a Capoid race (named so after the Cape of Good Hope).