时差N小时 浅谈种族歧视的刻板印象(下)

Despite that fact, when participants were asked to reconstruct the man's face on a computer,

尽管如此，当参与者被要求在电脑上重组这名男子的面部特征时，

they gave the man more stereotypically¹ African features, such as darker skin tones, if he had been portrayed³ negatively as the white collar criminal, or—especially—as the violent criminal.

如果他被消极地描绘成白领罪犯，特别是暴力罪犯，参与者会给这名男子更多非洲人的特质，例如黑皮肤。

The fact that they didn't associate more African features with the athlete, who was portrayed positively⁴,

事实上，他们并没有将更多非洲人的特质与积极的运动员形象联系起来。

suggests the participants linked these features to negativity rather than stereotypes⁵.

这就意味着参与者将这些特质与负面形象联系起来，而非刻板印象。

And this happened regardless of the participants'self-reported racial attitudes, which means that they weren't even aware they were having these troubling responses.

而这一切无关参与者自己的种族观念，他们根本就没意识到自己的答案是令人感到不安的。

If so, then it's not enough to study the way the media portray² racial groups.

既然如此，这对于研究媒体描述不同种族的方式是不够的。

It's also important to study how the public interprets and remembers—or misremembers—the news in a way that sustains racism⁶.

同样重要的是，研究公众是如何理解和记忆——或者错误记忆——新闻在某种程度上延续了种族主义。

1 stereotypically   

adv.带有成见地(stereotype的副词形式)

参考例句：

2 portray   

v.描写，描述；画(人物、景象等)

参考例句：

• It is difficult to portray feelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
• Can you portray the best and worst aspects of this job?您能描述一下这份工作最好与最坏的方面吗？

3 portrayed   

v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中，他始终把自己说成是受害者。
• The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 positively   

adv.明确地，断然，坚决地；实在，确实

参考例句：

• She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
• The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。

5 stereotypes   

n.老套，模式化的见解，有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
• It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 racism   

n.民族主义；种族歧视(意识)

参考例句：

• He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
• Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。