美国杂志《国家地理》表示,其过去对世界各地人们的报道有种族歧视。
US magazine National Geographic says its past coverage of people around the world was racist.
编辑苏珊·戈德伯格称,它忽略了美国非白人人群,并将不同群体展示为异域风情或野蛮人,宣传“各种陈词滥调”。
It ignored non-white Americans and showed different groups as exotic or savage, propagating "every type of cliché", editor Susan Goldberg said.
该杂志4月份的版本主题是种族,并请了一位历史学家研究其过去的期刊。
The magazine's April edition is dedicated to race and it has asked a historian to look at past issues.
它决定以重新审视其报道的方法来纪念民权领袖马丁·路德·金被谋杀后的50周年。
It decided to re-examine its coverage to mark 50 years since civil rights leader Martin Luther King was murdered.
戈德堡女士在一篇题为《几十年来,我们的报道带有种族主义》的文章中写道:“让我们严肃面对今天可耻地使用种族主义作为一种政治策略,并证明我们可以比这做得更好。”
"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".
戈德伯格女士说,该杂志的一些档案材料让她很“无语”,其中包括1916年澳大利亚土着居民的照片,标题为《南澳的黑色土人:全人类中智商最低的野蛮人》。
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".
弗吉尼亚大学副教授约翰·埃德温·梅森被邀请检查其报道时说,《国家地理》以“巨大的权威”强化种族主义的态度。
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".
他表示,在20世纪70年代以前,该杂志忽略了非白人的美国人,只把他们展示为劳工或家庭工作人员。
He showed that until the 1970s the magazine ignored non-white Americans, only showing them as labourers or domestic staff.