奥普拉·温弗瑞在瑞士遭种族歧视
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px][b]US talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she was the victim of racism during a recent visit to Switzerland.[/b][/size][/font][font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px][b]美国脱口秀主持人奥普拉·温弗瑞称，近期她的瑞士之旅中遭到种族歧视。[/b][/size][/font]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]She said an assistant refused to serve her in an upmarket handbag shop in [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/93667.html]Zurich[/url].[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Winfrey, one of the world's richest women, was apparently told the bags on display were "too expensive" for her.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Her claims, made to a US television programme, come amid a political row over plans by some Swiss towns to ban asylum-seekers from some public places.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Berne says human rights groups have likened the plans - which include banning asylum-seekers from swimming pools, playing fields and libraries - to apartheid.[/size][/font]
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Winfrey, who stars in Lee Daniels' new film The Butler, visited Zurich last month to attend singer Tina Turner's wedding. The Oprah Winfrey Show is not shown in [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/93667.html]Switzerland[/url].[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Winfrey said she left the shop calmly without arguing, but that the experience was proof that racism continues to be a problem.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]"There's two different ways to handle it," she said. [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]"I could've had the whole blow-up thing... but it still exists, of course it does." [/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Her claims are a public relations disaster for Switzerland, our correspondent says.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]About 48,000 people are currently seeking asylum in Switzerland. It has twice as many asylum seekers as the European average.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]Officials say the curbs, which will also see [url=http://www.enread.com/news/life/93667.html]asylum[/url]-seekers housed in special centres, are aimed at preventing tensions with residents.[/size][/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma][size=12px]The country's asylum laws were tightened in June.[/size][/font]
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