Racism in China - A Chinese museum paired Africans with animals

[NoOne'sBoy]

BEIJING — A Chinese museum has pulled a photo exhibition showing African faces juxtaposed with those of wild animals, after being accused of racism.

And if that wasn’t embarrassing enough, the country’s main social media messaging service was forced to apologize because its automatic translation bot was translating the term for “black foreigner” into the n-word.

These aren’t the first such incidents of their kind either. Last year, a Chinese detergent TV advertisement went viral and sparked international outrage after it showed an African man being transformed by a washing machine into a fresh-faced Chinese man.

Africans face considerable racism inside China, and the latest incidents underline just how slowly attitudes are changing. That’s a problem for the Chinese government too — it spends considerable financial and diplomatic capital wooing African leaders and African nations, but evidence of racist attitudes within China is bound to fuel mistrust.

The museum in the city of Wuhan had shown a dozen photographs of Africans next to animals showing similar facial expressions as part of an exhibition titled “This is Africa” by photographer Yu Huiping.

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[NoOne'sBoy]

absolutely disgusting. this is while treating whites like gods.

 

[Dotachin]

Well if Chinese members here are representative of the population, then I think its nothing surprising.

 

[Zen0]

Seriously wtf were they thinking

 

[kankan326]

China is not a multi-race society. Not so sensitive to racism issues.

 

[Gibbs]

China is not a multi-race society. Not so sensitive to racism issues.

Thats a absurd excuse to make in 21st century.. How could any authority allow something like this to happen ? Shocking !!

 

[Götterdämmerung]

The behaviour of many Chinese, particularly the newly rich without much exposure to the outside world, is at best provincial.

 

[Zen0]

China is not a multi-race society. Not so sensitive to racism issues.

Most countries aren't , most don't pull ridiculous stunts like this , besides that's not even historically accurate , that place has no business calling itself a museum

 

[Offshore]

absolutely disgusting. this is while treating whites like gods.

we should also put some lanka in the museum

 

[Indus Pakistan]

*Stultified*

 

[Max]

Their country, their rules. if Blacks have problem they should arrange similar shows in whole Africa..

 

[Indus Pakistan]

However to be fair to China - they have been a very insular society until recently. Now that it is going global the country will evolve so we should keep that in mind. Don't foreget USA which had 10% of it's population Black as late as 1960s was a segregated society with in your face racism - which even resonates today in some quarters. So let us give China the time and benefit of doubt.

 

[Dotachin]

The fact that my post containing cats with slanted eyes got deleted should let Chinese empathize with the issue being discussed and not simply brushed away.

 

[grey boy 2]

Racism? i called it "child's play" come to HK my hometown to experience the "big deal"
We basically discriminate on every colors, races, we even having special names for each different ones
So? they still keep pouring in HK because they're happily making money much more than their own countries
This may sound rude, however face it, at the end of the day "Money Talk, Bullshit Walk" period
How about stop being a hypocrite for once?

 

[lastofthepatriots]

There is an element of truth in the above exhibition.

Your an idiot.