{"id":3041,"date":"2009-10-21T07:37:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2009-10-21T07:37:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:37:35","slug":"cultural-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/cultural-adjustment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little gem of multi-culti lunacy from the\u00a0newspaper you have never, ever seen anyone reading<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Ohio, officials designing a seat-belt campaign aimed at the state’s large Somali refugee population wanted to adapt the popular\u00a0“Click it or ticket” slogan but found that “ticket” doesn’t translate.<\/p>\n

“They don’t have a government in Somalia, so ‘ticket’ doesn’t mean anything to them,” says Tina O’Grady, administrator of the state’s\u00a0Traffic Safety Office. “We ended up translating it as ‘Strap it, or lose your livestock,’ which also means your money or income or\u00a0livelihood.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Me]\u00a0 I can’t see what would have been wrong with:\u00a0 “Strap it, or we’ll send the militia round to massacre everyone in your village\u00a0and feed their corpses to wild dogs.”\u00a0 But hey.<\/p>\n

[Insensitive? Moi?<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little gem of multi-culti lunacy from the\u00a0newspaper you have never, ever seen anyone reading: In Ohio, officials designing a seat-belt campaign aimed at the state’s large Somali refugee population wanted to adapt the popular\u00a0“Click it or ticket” slogan … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}