时差N小时 浅谈种族歧视的刻板印象(上)

Although there has been much debate about whether race has a biological or social basis, the bottom line is that race is a psychological reality for many people.

虽然对于种族歧视究竟是生物学因素还是社会基础导致还存在很多争议，但归根结底，对很多人来说这是一种心理现象的现实反应——

That is, many folks assign other individuals to racial categories based on their appearance, and then make assumptions about them.

也就是说，许多人根据外表将他人划分为不同的种族，然后对他们产生错误偏见。

But racial stereotyping¹ goes beyond classifying people into groups.

但种族刻板印象不仅仅是将人划分为不同群体。

When a group is assigned a negative stereotype², individuals that exhibit more of the physical characteristics identified with that group suffer more discrimination.

当一个群体被赋予了消极的刻板印象时，那些表现出更多与该群体相同的身体特征的人会遭受更多的歧视。

For example, in a recent study, participants were asked to read one of four news articles about a hypothetical African American man.

例如，在最近的一项研究中，参与者被要求阅读四篇关于一个假想的非裔美国人的新闻文章中的一篇。

The first story was about a professor receiving an award. The second was about an athlete, a role stereotypically³ linked to African Americans.

第一篇是关于一位教授获奖的事件。第二篇是关于一个运动员的新闻，一个典型的非裔美国人角色。

The third was about a white-collar criminal and the fourth about a violent criminal. No matter which story they read, all participants saw the same photo of the man.

第三篇关于白领罪犯，第四篇是关于暴力罪犯。不管他们选择的是哪一篇，新闻配图都是同一个人的照片。

1 stereotyping   

v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I realize that I'm stereotyping. 我认识到我搞的是老一套。 来自辞典例句
• There is none of the gender stereotyping usually evident in school uniforms. 有没有人的性别刻板印象通常是显而易见的。 来自互联网

2 stereotype   

n.固定的形象，陈规，老套，旧框框

参考例句：

• He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
• There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。

3 stereotypically   

adv.带有成见地(stereotype的副词形式)

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