2016-3-11

English

http://www.chinavoa.com/show-8365-235519-1.html

A lot of formerly low-income neighborhoods are becoming gentrified. The people moving in bring money—and racial biases. Which contribute to them viewing their new surroundings differently depending on the race of those who traditionally live there.

许多以前收入很低的社区现在得到了改善。新住进的人们带来了资金——也带来了种族偏见。这会让他们对待新的居住环境态度不同，而不同的态度又取决于以前居住在这里人们的种族。

That’s according to a study that examined more than 7,000 reviews of two Brooklyn neighborhoods on Yelp, the online, anyone-can-rate-any-business review site. It’s in the Journal of Consumer Culture.

以上结论是根据一项研究得出的，该研究是根据一项在线商户点评网站Yelp对两个布鲁克林社区超过7千人进行的调查研究得出的结论。该研究结果已经发表在《消费者文化》杂志上。

Researchers looked at reviews of two areas that have in recent years undergone massive demographic changes—Greenpoint and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

研究人员调查了最近几年经历过大规模人口变动的地区——Greenpoint和Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Greenpoint is a historically Polish neighborhood that has long been majority white. BedStuy is a historically black neighborhood that in the last decade saw a 700 percent increase in its white population. Blacks are still the majority, but their population is shrinking.

Greenpoint 以前是一个波兰社区，一直以来以白人居住为多。Bedstudy以前是黑人居住区，而在过去十年，这里白人人口数量增加了70%。黑人在这里仍然占据多数，但是黑人的数量在日益减少。

Both sets of reviews viewed the neighborhoods as “up and coming.” But established Greenpoint restaurants were seen as cozy and authentic. While time-honored BedStuy restaurants were described as “gritty and sketchy”.

对这两个地区的评论都是“生机勃勃，生趣盎然”。但是，Greenpoint的餐馆得到的评价是舒适真实可靠，而历史悠久的BetStuy餐馆得到的评价是真实简约。

Reviewers in white Greenpoint expressed concerns about preserving the neighborhood’s culture as it underwent change. Such concerns were noticeably absent in the BedStuy reviews, which were more likely to talk about the neighborhood using words such as “hood” or “ghetto.”

在白人区Greenpoint的评论者表达了保护社区文化的担忧，因为这里的文化经历了变化。而这些担忧是在BedStuy的评价中时没有的，大部分人对周边的商户评价则是更喜欢用 诸如 “头巾” 或者 “贫民区”之类的词汇。

Researchers call such attitudes “discursive redlining,” a reference to the overt practice of pricing some people out of areas or services. The racial biases inherent in the reviews can influence popular perception—as well as prospective economic investment.

研究人员称这些看法是“散乱无章的歧视”，一种对地区和服务以外的某些人进行公开评价行为。在评论中的这种内在的种族偏见现象能够对大众观点造成影响——还有经济投资导向作用。