News Journal of January 8, 2012: Sour After Taste of Customer Service

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Can you imagine very soon a world or just any neighborhood where there is not a single element, microscopic trace of racial bias or ethical prejudice? ‘Very soon’ in the progress of racial harmony may be hard for people to conceive when a major pizza chain had to offer an apology online after a customer was insulted.  When an Asian American woman, Minhee Cho picked up her order at a Papa John’s restaurant in Manhattan, New York she read a disturbing identification of herself on a receipt given her.  On that January 6th evening the cashier who concluded her order wrote on the receipt as customer name, ’lady chinky eyes’. 

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The cashier chosen the wrong person to make this offense to a individual of Asian decent. (It is a mistake, nonetheless to jest at anyone’s ethnical recognition.) Cho is a online journalist, the communication manager for the alternative news site, ProPublica. She posted a message to Papa John’s on her Twitter account with an photo image of the receipt. You can imagine this true; someone’s idiotic joke can spread quickly on the internet. "Hey @PapaJohns", wrote Minhee, "…just FYI my name isn’t “lady chinky eyes.”"  
Reportedly many individuals learning about this matter became angered, Minhee Cho‘s message got over 150,000 views. Papa John’s did viewed the message, obtaining Ms. Cho’s correction. The pizza corporation offered an apology on their Facebook and Twitter accounts with assurance the offending employee was terminated. My thought in our modern times persons can permit unhealthy prejudices to exist in their minds and hearts. In due time these concealed, unhealthy feelings will expose the individuals harboring them. Since racial bias are not acceptable earth-wide people housing these rot-soured attitudes within them could have opportunity nowadays to rid of them before trouble emerges.