How Chinese #MeToo activists are keeping the movement alive, despite government censorship.
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0:41.1 | When an idea goes international, sometimes parts of that idea are tricky to translate. |
0:46.9 | This is especially common when it comes to names, like the name of something in the |
0:51.3 | original country gets phonetically translated instead of actually translated. |
0:56.2 | So Ben. Yes. You recently told me your name from your Chinese language class. I did. What is it? |
1:02.8 | Jung Pinsin, which it's been a while since I took Mandarin, and I have no idea what that actually |
1:08.3 | means, or I can't really remember, but my instructor gave it to me because Jung Pinsin sounds a |
1:14.4 | little bit like Ben Johnson, right? Sure. And I also know somebody else when he came to the |
1:21.2 | States from Taiwan, he had the name Jing Zha. And so when he came here, he took the name Ginger, |
1:27.4 | because even though it doesn't mean the same thing as Jing Zha, they sound kind of similar. |
1:32.4 | Yeah. And this idea is how we get the popular Chinese social media hashtag Rice Bunny. |
1:38.4 | Because when you translate the words rice and bunny into Chinese, with the help of Google Translate, |
1:44.4 | you apparently get... |
1:47.2 | which can be shortened to me and too, as in the Me Too movement. |
1:52.4 | Today we learned that in China, the Me Too movement against sexual harassment and assault is |
1:57.2 | represented on social media by the words for rice and bunny, or the emoji of a rabbit and a |
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