My story on my own experience reading Air China tips on safety in #London @MayorofLondon @markboleat https://t.co/CeXcROfabc— Haze Fan (@journohaze) September 7, 2016NEW DELHI: A Chinese journalist today brought to attention Air China's racist warning to passengers about moving around in London - avoid areas populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people. "London is generally a safe place to travel, however precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people," Air China says in its in-flight magazine.Haze Fan, the journalist tweeted a photograph of the 'warning' to London mayor Sadiq Khan. She also wrote about it for CNBC.com. "Chinese companies have been criticized previously for their depictions of various races. In May, a Chinese laundry detergent-maker apologized for an advertisement that showed an Asian woman shoving a dirt-smeared black man into a washing machine, only for him to emerge as a clean Asian man," the journalist wrote.Some Western media, fan said, called the detergent advertisement, which ran on Chinese social media platforms, "the most racist commercial ever."

Source: Times of India September 07, 2016 16:36 UTC