前几天一位中国妈妈试图用性贿赂来通过美国海关（她因为没有declare带在身上的奢侈品，被拦了下来）。撇开这件事情本生，现在来看看美国和新加坡报纸是怎么报道这件事情的。

New York Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/woman-accused-bribe-jfk-customs-agent-sex-article-1.2458148

纽约每日新闻的标题是：

Woman accused of trying to bribe customs agent with sex at JFK Airport

（一位妇女被指控试图在肯尼迪机场性贿赂海关人员）

正文：

A 55-year-old woman has been charged with offering sex to a Customs and Border Patrol officer if he would allow her adult daughter to pass through Kennedy Airport with undeclared goods valued at $160,000.

Hong Yang, a divorcee who lives in China, was arrested over the weekend for customs fraud by U.S. Homeland Security agents.

Yang had arrived on an Air France flight from Paris last July with her sister and her adult daughter who lives in Manhattan and is a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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总体来看，人家是就事说事。标题和第一段都没有提到主人公的背景。第二段才提到她是中国来的。

再来看新加坡的海峡时报怎么报道的。不出乎意料，人家标题就是：

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/chinese-woman-charged-with-trying-to-bribe-us-customs-officer-with-sex

Chinese woman charged with trying to bribe US customs officer with sex

（中国妇女被指控试图性贿赂美国海关官员）

A Chinese woman was charged in a Brooklyn Court on Monday (Dec 7) for offering to have sex with a US Customs and Border Protection officer if he would allow her daughter to bring undeclared goods into the country.

The incident took place in July and Hong Yang, 55, was arrested for the customs fraud last weekend by agents from the US Department of Homeland Security.

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报道从标题和第一段就指出主人公是中国来的背景。哈哈。

因为之前看到纽约报纸的报道，看到新加坡海峡时报的开始段我就心里万马蹦腾，根本没有耐心看到最后。

最后三段真的是把作者的用意彰显无遗。真的是比我想象得还要糟糕。

关于您提出的国籍歧视问题，新加坡的法律应该没有对‘来源国’这个概念加以保护。所以，本地的房东才有胆量在广告里说，中国人不租，印度人不租之类的在西方国家是完全犯法的话。真的所谓是上梁不正，下梁歪。

下面是美国1968年就通过的 ‘Fair Housing Act’ (公平住房立法)，Wikipedia summary 里面第一段就明确写出，基于种族，信仰，来源国等等，在租房买卖房歧视的，就是犯法。第三段更是毫无含糊地写出了，住房广告如果有基于对来源国（和其他种类）的歧视，也是犯法。

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act

The Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) introduced meaningful federal enforcement mechanisms. It outlawed:

• Refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
• Discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in the terms, conditions or privilege of the sale or rental of a dwelling.
• Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference of discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin.
• Coercing, threatening, intimidating, or interfering with a person's enjoyment or exercise of housing rights based on discriminatory reasons or retaliating against a person or organization that aids or encourages the exercise or enjoyment of fair housing rights.