F2F Class Notes April 17th (Ben)

Catherine

The public was angry after the video was exposed, they criticized what UA did to that Asian passenger, and got backlashed in terms of the speech/statement by UA CEO afterwards.

On my Wechat moments, the video was forwarded frequently and widely, and people expressed their anger to UA. I was angry with it at the beginning. However, it made me remember another news we heard 2 days ago. A woman had a furious quarrel with a man because of car driving. In the video, the woman kept abusing that man.

Most people criticized that she was so rude and ill-bred. However, the story was changed the next day, people were told the truth about why she was so angry and abused him. People who criticized her turned against him. Though the woman coped with him in an inappropriate way, the man was cunning and he took advantage of people’s anger, he hid the truth.

Now we know whatever right UA has, they were definitely  wrong. But both news led me to think. Currently, the press reports what they want the public to know, but not the truth. Many press like to attract the attention from the public, but are blinded by the truth. They are losing their credibility.

I think we need stay sensitive to such news, and question them. We should take news with a grain of salt (=not believe blindly)

Try to hear different voices and dig for the truth if we’d like to know it. Anyway, try not to be impacted by emotions, be objective and do not parrot. We need fairness but we need justice more.

What about you ? 你呢？

What about the movie ? = 电影呢？

How about = proposal

How about dinner? = Let’s have dinner together!

怎么样？ How was it? How are you? How have you been? What do you think about that?

Give way = 让

Road rage = road fight, road argument

Against = 反对

I am against having children before 30.

More and more people are against the death penalty.

The man was leaning against the door when someone opened it and made him fall.

Turn = become

After a few weeks, the tomatoes turned red.

During the crisis, our profits turned low.

When seeing the video, many people turned against the man.

Lead sb to do sthg

This situation led me to think.

Arise = appear (situation)

A new situation has arisen.

A new problem arose.

丢，负 lose / lost / lost

I am losing my mind, I am becoming crazy.

I am losing with girlfriend, we never speak anymore.

Germany is losing the game, France already scored twice and time is almost up. (France 2- Germany 0, time: 85”). In 5 minutes we can say Germany lost the game.