知名雜誌《國家地理》自曝長期存在種族歧視
US magazine National Geographic says its past coverage of people around the world was racist.
美國雜誌《國家地理》表示，其過去對世界各地人們的報道有種族歧視。It ignored non-white Americans and showed different groups as exotic or savage, propagating "every type of cliché", editor Susan Goldberg said.
編輯蘇珊·戈德伯格稱，它忽略了美國非白人人羣，並將不同羣體展示爲異域風情或野蠻人，宣傳“各種陳詞濫調”。The magazine's April edition is dedicated to race and it has asked a historian to look at past issues.
該雜誌4月份的版本主題是種族，並請了一位歷史學家研究其過去的期刊。
It decided to re-examine its coverage to mark 50 years since civil rights leader Martin Luther King was murdered.
它決定以重新審視其報道的方法來紀念民權領袖馬丁·路德·金被謀殺後的50週年。
"Let's confront today's shameful use of racism as a political strategy and prove we are better than this," Ms Goldberg wrote in an editorial entitled "For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist".
戈德堡女士在一篇題爲《幾十年來，我們的報道帶有種族主義》的文章中寫道：“讓我們嚴肅面對今天可恥地使用種族主義作爲一種政治策略，並證明我們可以比這做得更好。”Ms Goldberg said some of the magazine's archive material left her "speechless", including a 1916 photo of Australian Aborigines with the caption "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings".
戈德伯格女士說，該雜誌的一些檔案材料讓她很“無語”，其中包括1916年澳大利亞土着居民的照片，標題爲《南澳的黑色土人：全人類中智商最低的野蠻人》。Asked to examine its coverage, University of Virginia associate professor John Edwin Mason said National Geographic had served only to reinforce racist attitudes in a magazine with "tremendous authority".
弗吉尼亞大學副教授約翰·埃德溫·梅森被邀請檢查其報道時說，《國家地理》以“巨大的權威”強化種族主義的態度。He showed that until the 1970s the magazine ignored non-white Americans, only showing them as labourers or domestic staff.
他表示，在20世紀70年代以前，該雜誌忽略了非白人的美國人，只把他們展示爲勞工或家庭工作人員。
