当地时间7月3日，哥本哈根地标“小美人鱼”雕像遭人涂鸦，被莫名指控为种族歧视的鱼。哥本哈根警方在声明中表示：“我们可以证实，小美人鱼雕像已在今天上午9时前被不明人士涂鸦破坏。我们正在调查这起案件。”
The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish”.
The 107-year-old statue has often been vandalised by protesters, ranging from pro-democracy activists to anti-whaling campaigners. ▌vandalised 故意破坏（他人财物）
Protesters have variously knocked the mermaid off her perch, beheaded her, lopped off an arm and poured paint over her. Copenhagen police said no one had claimed responsibility for the latest assault. “We consider it vandalism and have started an investigation,” a spokesman said. ▌lop sth off 切断，砍断，削去
Visited by a million tourists a year, the statue, designed by the sculptor Edvard Eriksen and modelled on his wife, Eline, was created as a tribute to the celebrated fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen about a mythical sea king’s mermaid daughter who falls in love with a prince and longs to become human. ▌vandalism 恣意毁坏他人财产罪；（对好事物的）糟蹋
Black Lives Matter protesters have toppled statues of historical figures around the world linked to slavery and racism. Last month the statue of a Danish missionary who played a major role in the colonisation of Greenland was doused with red paint. On Thursday activists accused Danish officials of being unable to recognise racism after authorities said the killing of a biracial man by two white men was not racially motivated.
Andersen has not been widely viewed in this light, although the author did tackle colonialism and issues of race in an 1840 play, the Mulatto, and some scholars have said they detected racist implications in some stories.
Last year a Disney live-action remake of The Little Mermaid became the subject of some controversy after the African American actor Halle Bailey was cast in the central role.
Ane Grum-Schwensen, a researcher at the HC Andersen Centre at the University of Southern Denmark, told the Danish news agency Ritzau: “I am having a hard time seeing what is particularly racist in the fairytale The Little Mermaid.”
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