Friday, October 13, 2017

A Chinese museum paired Africans with animals, prompting charges of racism — and then there’s this translation app

A Chinese museum paired Africans with animals, prompting charges of racism — and then there’s this translation app

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 […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/10/13/a-chinese-museum-paired-africans-with-animals-prompting-charges-of-racism-and-then-theres-this-translation-app/

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