短新闻泛读 | Day 9：过分推广美白，涉及肤色歧视

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Social media is rife with skin-whitening products, and little is being done to regulate it.

be rife with:充斥着

--be full of something bad

 

skin-whitening:美白

skin-lighten:提亮

 

Once primarily sold in markets and beauty stores, skin-lightening products have exploded in their availability online and today, they are pervasive on every major social media platform.

explode in:在。。中爆发、暴涨

availability:

-可用性

-利用率

-单身

-空闲

availability online线上利用率

 

pervasive:蔓延的

--spread through sth. unwelcomed

 

On Facebook and Instagram, vendors hawk creams and serums that promise lighter skin yet offer scant information about the products themselves, while on YouTube and TikTok you can find thousands of tutorials by people promoting potent products or home remedies without qualifications that support their claims.

Tutorials教程

 hawk:

-鹰

-沿街叫卖selling things by going places and ask people to buy them

 

cream:乳霜

serum:精华液

scant:

-一丁点a little

-吝惜give little

potent:有强效的

-a great effect on

promote potent product: 带货

 

 "Social media has become the most powerful tool right now for the sale of skin-lightening products," says Dr. Anita Benson, Nigeria-based dermatologist and founder of the Embrace Melanin Initiative to combat colorism and harmful skin-lightening practices in Africa.  

 

dermatologist:皮肤科医生

melanin:黑色素

initiative:倡导

combat colorism：对抗肤色歧视