For the past few years, made-to-order videos featuring African children have been making the rounds on the Chinese internet. Some of the videos are innocent enough; the children recite a personalized birthday greeting in Chinese. But others are racist, with children unknowingly voicing derogatory things about themselves. A recent expose has triggered calls for this to end. But as The World’s Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai, the videos are only growing in popularity.
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