Sh Gossiping Elaine Li Summary

According to Elaine Lui, Canadian reporter and TV personality, gave the audience a helpful understanding in people when gossiping in both present and past. She explained that as a reporter, she is trying to understanding the social culture, social behavior, humanity and ourselves through gossip. She explained that gossip goes way back in the past. Lui explains that the hieroglyphics are remarkably similar to what we read at the newsstand or at the grocery store. She talked about a pharaoh having an intimate relationship with one of his army general. Also, she talked about the queen having an affair with one of the royal advisor. She tied ancient gossip to modern gossip to show that people in the past enjoy to gossip as much as we do. She shows belief that gossip is an information exchange through bias opinions, which cannot go through without one’s own experience. It is a definitive declaration of what we believe, what we expect, what we reject, and how we process.
I recall a time I read a Korean news article about two popular artists confirmed of being in a relationship. The reaction from the readers were more negative than positive support. As I read the comments from the article, I noticed that the female partner was getting more negative comments than the male. The readers were angrier at the female artist for getting together with the male artist. Most of the comments were threatening her to break up with him. The reaction from the readers showed me that they are very sensitive and immature about the topic because the female artist broke the readers’ fantasy of being in a relationship with their idol. Realizing that their favorite music artist having to be in a relationship made them bring out their insecurities and by making them feel better about themselves by sending threats and hate to the other