日本學者：黑人女性長相更醜

A British-based academic was at the centre of an international race row after citing "research" that claimed black women are uglier than other races。

Dr Kanazawa, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, has published findings based on a survey of white, Asian, black and native American men and women who were asked to rate each other's attractiveness based on photographs. Black women scored lowest, Asian highest。

The controversial Japanese academic, an evolutionary psychologist, concluded this is because African women have higher levels of testosterone than other races and therefore have more masculine features。

Not only does Kanazawa fail to provide any evidence to support his conclusion, he fails to say how many people took part in the research and does not even mention the race of the women – for example whether they are Afro-Caribbean。

Nor does he explore the fact that the research on which he bases his conclusion was conducted in America where European ideals of beauty dominate。

His article, published on the US-based website Psychology Today, caused international outrage. It is not the first time that Dr Kanazawa, 48, a lecturer within the department of management at the LSE, has been accused of peddling racist theories。

In 2006 he published a paper suggesting the poor health of some sub-Saharan Africans is the result of low IQ, not poverty。

Tokyo-born Dr Kanazawa studied in Bulgaria and gained a PhD in Sociology at the University of Arizona. He has been at the LSE since 2003 and is now on sabbatical. He portrays himself as the scourge of political correctness and his own website carries the slogan "prepare to be offended"。日前一個英國學者“引用”一項研究稱黑人女性相貌更醜，陷入國際種族輿論的風暴中心。

倫敦經濟學院講師金澤博士依據某調查發表了上述結論。該調查要求白人、亞洲人、黑人和印第安人的男性和女性就照片給彼此打分。結果黑人女性得分最低，亞洲最高。

備受爭議的日本學者、進化心理學家金澤得出結論，認爲非洲女性身上睾丸激素水平比其他種族女性更高，因此更具男性特徵。

金澤不僅沒能就以上結論提供任何論據，而且無法列出參與研究的受試人數，更不要說詳盡說出女性的種族，比如她們是不是加勒比黑人。

他也沒有說明其所依據的研究是在美國進行，而在美國歐式審美佔主導地位。

他的文章在美國網站“今日心理學”上發佈後，招致國際憤慨。而對於這位48歲、在倫敦經濟學院管理專業擔任講師的金澤博士，這也不是第一次因傳播種族主義而受到譴責。

2006年他就曾發表論文指出，撒哈拉以南非洲地區人民的健康不濟並非貧窮，而是因爲腦子不夠用。

這位出生於日本東京的金澤博士曾在保加利亞讀書，後來獲得了美國亞利桑那大學社會學的博士學位。他自2003年起執教於倫敦經濟學院，日前正在休假期。他描述自己爲“政治改革之鞭”，而他自己的網站也打出口號“準備好被冒犯吧”。