First Indian female president of Oxford students union quits after racism row
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Samant has released an open letter of apology after the furore
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Rashmi Samant, who created history by being elected the president of the Oxford University Student Union (SU), has stepped down after the emergence of her old social media posts that were declared racist and insensitive .
The posts, some from 2017, included a photo of her visit to Malaysia with the caption “Ching Chang .
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Though Samant claimed the phrase translated from Mandarin to “eat the plants and was a joke about her being unable to find any vegetarian food at the temple, Chinese students said the term was a reverse Google Translation not used by native Mandarin speakers.
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Indian president-elect of Oxford Union stands down in racism row
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