{"id":10371,"date":"2021-04-16T11:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=10371"},"modified":"2021-04-16T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T17:53:19","slug":"why-did-evian-apologize-for-a-social-media-ad-of-its-water-brand-on-the-first-day-of-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/04\/16\/why-did-evian-apologize-for-a-social-media-ad-of-its-water-brand-on-the-first-day-of-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Evian apologize for a social media ad of its water brand on the first day of Ramadan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"374\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FinalEvian-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FinalEvian-1.jpg 374w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FinalEvian-1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 85vw, 374px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>First, here is the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/europe\/ramadan-2021-evian-s-social-media-post-sparks-backlash-1.1203616\">https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/europe\/ramadan-2021-evian-s-social-media-post-sparks-backlash-1.1203616<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, here is the tweet of apologies ?:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"143\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EvianTweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EvianTweet.jpg 604w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EvianTweet-300x71.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, those so-called offended observant Muslims can simply avoid reading the tweets of Evian (same simple logic in life for anyone \u201coffended\u201d by any ad, song, concert, book, article, etc.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another healthy idea for them would be to drink Evian after\nsunset (it is highly recommended to drink water during the Ramadan fast to avoid\ndehydration). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth, Evian representatives did not go distribute bottles of water to people leaving mosques after the morning or mid-day prayer. Had they done that, or had they made fun of people\u2019s religious beliefs, this would be truly offensive and unacceptable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude, from this story, we see that the endemic political correctness has also hit France. Bambi cannot help not to wonder the following: (1) How will this company\u2019s ridiculous apologies help increase its sales or improve its brand image? and (2) In what ways does this story promote tolerance or improve the living-together (&#8220;<em>le vivre ensemble<\/em>&#8221; in French)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, here is the story: https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/europe\/ramadan-2021-evian-s-social-media-post-sparks-backlash-1.1203616 Second, here is the tweet of apologies ?: Third, those so-called offended observant Muslims can simply avoid reading the tweets of Evian (same simple logic in life for anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10379,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}