The Nando Times: Belgians outraged by Pygmy exhibition

First, there's a "Belgians Are Short" joke, or a "Their Country Is Small/Weak" joke, here somewhere, but I can't conjure with it. Sorry.

Second, isn't this just the EU at its most enlightened? A group of Pygmies came to B-----m (hey, this isn't a Serious Screenplay) and put on an exhibition of Pygmy culture to raise money for wells, schools and hospitals for their home in Cameroon. And the Belgians stayed away in droves because it offended their tender sensibility. (Oh, and it reminded them of the unspeakable horrors perpetrated by Belgians in Africa.)

So the Pygmies are going back to Cameroon. And they aren't likely to bring much back with them. But at least they weren't exploited.

I don't know enough about this to say if it really was offensive. Maybe it was. But it really seems to me that the Belgians were more afraid they, the Belgians, would be offended than worrying about actually doing something to help impoverished people.