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The [[National Geographic Society]] is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its [[National Geographic Magazine|magazine publication]] and [[National Geographic Channel|TV channel]] cover a wide range of topics, including geography, archaeology, natural science, anthropology and technology |
The [[National Geographic Society]] is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its [[National Geographic Magazine|magazine publication]] and [[National Geographic Channel|TV channel]] cover a wide range of topics, including geography, archaeology, natural science, anthropology and technology. |
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The institution is known to strongly promote environmental and historical conservation, and the study and appreciation of culture from all over the globe. It has also [http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/national-geographic-racist-coverage-1.4574126 admitted to racist coverage until the 1970s], virtually ignoring non-whites in the USA unless they were domestics or laborers, and popularizing ides that non-whites from other countries were "exotics, [[National Geographic Nudity|famously and frequently unclothed]], happy hunters, [[Noble Savage|noble savages]] — every type of cliché." |
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The National Geographic Society’s logo is a yellow rectangular portrait frame, which appears as margins on the front covers of its magazines and as its television channel logo. |
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The magazine is the [[Trope Namer]] for [[National Geographic Nudity]]. |
The magazine is the [[Trope Namer]] for [[National Geographic Nudity]]. |
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