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种族歧视
Racism
If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
如果我们对少数民族如此残忍，他们为什么还来这里?为什么他们不偷偷越过墨西哥边境去找塔利班?
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
如果我们某天早上醒来，发现每个人都是同样的种族、信仰和肤色，到中午我们就会发现造成偏见的其他原因。
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
基本上白人和黑人，棕色和黄色之间没有区别。我决定不再把人看作南方人和北方人。
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
每个人都做了一件。非常有趣。我们玩得很开心。很多乐趣。我看不出有什么种族隔离。我从来没见过。
If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
如果我现在去一个俱乐部，所有的金发女孩都离开我的角落，所有的黑人女孩都来到我的角落。我好像对白人女孩有种族歧视!
Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.
种族成见令人厌烦、压力大，有时甚至是犯罪。这不是一个好的思考方式。它也是。这是愚蠢和破坏性的。
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
当欧洲人来到真正被摧毁的城市时，他们拒绝相信这些城市是由非洲人建造的。在这里，过去被歪曲和否认。
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
种族歧视、南非的经济实力、对所有黑人的压迫和剥削，都是同一件事的组成部分。
Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
长期以来给黑人带来不便，剥夺了他们发展的机会，他们自然害怕任何听起来像是歧视的东西。
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
种族灭绝开始于一种信念，即生物上的不同阶层毫无疑问地支持社会和政治歧视，尽管这种信念是不可能的。
Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.
贫穷和被称为种族隔离的种族统治迫使特兰斯基安移民离开安全的土地到城市工作，然后再回来。
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
我认为，在另一方面，有些演员不如我优秀，也许他们也能坚持下去，但他们开始把一切都归咎于种族。
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People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
人们倾向于把长相和行为不同的人与非法或不道德的行为联系起来。
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
非洲是一片火海。在内心深处，如果我们真的接受非洲人与我们是平等的，我们就会做得更多来扑灭这场大火。我们拿着饮水机站在那里，而我们真正需要的是消防队。
Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.
黑人记者和其他人一样有能力进行种族歧视。
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
对任何青年来说，最大的伤害莫过于让他感到，因为他属于这个或那个种族，无论他自己的功绩或努力如何，他都会在生活中获得进步。
So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.
所以现在我觉得自己很幸运，因为我可以更仔细地选择一些角色，这有点棘手，因为作为一个黑人女演员，没有那么多的角色可以选择。
A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.
很多事情，我不能进入房间，甚至只是为了被看到，是因为他们只是在说‘不’。他们不是在演非白人。“你被归入了非白人的一类。