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Ignorance can really go far
Before the week of Thanksgiving, an article was publishedon one of the newspapers in New York. I began to read through the newspaper, and landed upon an article that was titled, ¡°¡°Things to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Holiday¡±¡± by Ellis Henican.
The title caught my eyes right away and I began to read it. However, I was not pleased when I was done reading. The article was basically belittling all the scandals that happened in American politics and other celebrity scandals, which people should be supposedly ¡°thankful¡±, but the author was obviously being sarcastic about it.
What I couldn¡¯t understand was why the author included the tragic happening at Yeonpyeoungdo, South Korea, fromthe attacks of North Korea in the article. The author stated, ¡°People should be thankful for not planning their holiday getaway to ¡®lovely¡¯ Yeonpyeongdo.¡±
This struck me with great anger because several people have died as a result from the attack in Yeonpyeongdo. Therefore it was not appropriate to be sarcastically mentioned within such satirical subject. Taking into consideration of how South Korea was in deep grief over the precious lives that were taken away and how many people reading this article would just consider the tragedy lightly based upon the article, I got very angry.
I saw that the author of the article had an e-mail address so I immediately began to type a mail to him. In the mail I expressed my complaints about the author¡¯s choice to include the tragic happening in Yeonpyeongdo, and advised him to be careful next time when he writes an article likethis one, so that his words would not pierce through people¡¯s hearts and make them sad.
Unfortunately, the author never replied. Although I had little hopes for his reply, I was still disappointed to see that no reply had been sent. From this experience, I¡¯ve learned that one should always consider what he or she says before it is out to the public audience.
Words really do hurt and the most important thing is for everyone to learn from their mistakes.