美国国家地理自我检讨：我们的报道存在种族歧视

US magazine National Geographic says its past coverage of people around the world was racist.

美国国家地理杂志称其过去对世界各地人们的报道有种族歧视。

It ignored non-white Americans and showed different groups as exotic or savage, propagating "every type of cliche", editor Susan Goldberg said.

编辑苏珊-戈德伯格说，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”。

The magazine’s April edition is dedicated to race and it has asked a historian to look at past issues.

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。

It decided to re-examine its coverage to mark 50 years since civil rights leader Martin Luther King was murdered.

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。

"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".

“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，”戈德堡女士在一篇题为“十年，我们的报道是种族主义的”的文章中写道。

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年澳大利亚土著居民的照片，标题为“南澳大利亚黑人朋友：这些野蛮人在所有人当中智力排名最低”。

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。

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。

Prof Mason also pointed to photos of natives encountering Western technology - creating an "us-and-them" split between "civilized and uncivilized" - and the excessive numbers of photos of Pacific-island women.

梅森教授还提到了当地人遇到西方技术的照片 - 在“文明和不文明”之间创造了“我们 - 他们”的分歧 - 而且有过多的太平洋岛屿女性照片。

He compared a piece covering apartheid-era South Africa in 1962 - which barely mentions any problems - and a second piece from 1977, which shows opposition to the regime by black leaders.

他比较了在1962年一个关于种族隔离时代的南非的报道 - 几乎没有提及任何问题 - 而1977年的第二个报道，则反映了反对黑人领袖执政。

"It’s not a perfect article, but it acknowledges the oppression," Prof Mason wrote.

“这不是一篇完美的文章，但它承认压迫，”梅森教授写道。

But the historian also acknowledged the good work the magazine did even during this period in showing its readers the wider world.

但是这位历史学家也承认，即使在这个时期，这本杂志也向读者展示了这个更广阔的世界。

"It’s possible to say that a magazine can open people’s eyes at the same time it closes them," he said.

“可以说，一本杂志可以在打开人们双眼的同时蒙蔽人们的视线，”他说。