{"id":75,"date":"2011-03-23T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T00:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-04-05T23:26:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T07:26:38","slug":"75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/2011\/03\/23\/75\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing Colors the Way We See the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I came across\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/\">Seth\u2019s blog<\/a>, I found this image&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/files\/2011\/03\/coal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90\" title=\"coal\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/files\/2011\/03\/coal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/files\/2011\/03\/coal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/files\/2011\/03\/coal-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>For quite a while I stayed shocked after viewing such image. As I was becoming more and more worried about the radio reactants\u2019 effect cased by the nuclear station\u00a0explosion\u00a0in Japan and the possibility of Vancouver\u2019s potential earthquake these days, this image burned my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Coal mining, a business that is especially prosperous in my hometown, has its devastating nature long been forgotten by people today. Even though I have never experienced anything like a war caused by this rich resource, numerous serious coal mine explosions can never be erased from my memory . As these explosions happen almost every half a year on average, \u00a0uncountable workers died in these accidents. Yet, this hasn&#8217;t been paid much attention.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Seth impressed me when he mentioned how people blame marketing whenever their expectations don\u2019t match the reality. How true is that when you first stared at the image? As Seth puts it, \u201chow much marketing colors the way we see the world \u2013 our reaction (either way) to this chart is proof of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I came across\u00a0Seth\u2019s blog, I found this image&#8230; For quite a while I stayed shocked after viewing such image. As I was becoming more and more worried about the radio reactants\u2019 effect cased by the nuclear station\u00a0explosion\u00a0in Japan and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/2011\/03\/23\/75\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yiningqiao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}