{"id":9151,"date":"2017-04-11T23:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=9151"},"modified":"2017-04-11T23:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:21:55","slug":"thinking-chineselivesmatter-petition-emotions-often-rule-even-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/thinking-chineselivesmatter-petition-emotions-often-rule-even-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About This #ChineseLivesMatter Petition And How Emotions Often Rule Even For Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think everyone has heard of the recent news of United Airlines essentially dragging a person out of its plane as they needed seats for its employees due to overbooking the flight. Of course one of the key things is how there were videos of a doctor named David Dao who had blood on his lips as it looked like he was being dragged out unconscious.<\/p>\n

Now one thing that I read was how a lot of Asians immediately felt this seemed too coincidental where an Asian person just happened to be chosen. So a lot of accusations of racism and such started to pop up. It got so big that apparently on the official US government petition site a person created a petition to investigate the matter further and it got well over 150,000 signatures. As you can see the full title is \u201c#ChineseLivesMatters calling a federal investigation into the United Airlines incident on 10th April 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There is one huge problem with this though. Based on all the information about the individual he appears to be Vietnamese and not Chinese. While I suppose they could have hashtagged this to \u201cAsianLivesmatter\u201d it made me wonder how many people who were legitimately outraged at this solely because they thought the person was Chinese.<\/p>\n

It makes me think when it comes to business or organizations they often try to sway consumer opinion through emotions as it often rules on how people react to something as opposed to the facts. Like saying a company can offer the best or worst service out there. If they are very good at hitting the hot buttons with people and getting them to stick with a narrative that can often get the desired results.<\/p>\n

In some ways it\u2019s kind of scary to think that people can actually guide others in this way. Though for myself that is often why I am always fascinated in reading things like this or even business marketing literatures. It just makes you want to fully understand things before making a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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