{"id":2865,"date":"2020-07-02T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:30:39","slug":"racism-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/07\/02\/racism-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism, These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>Everyone seems to be in such a hurry to scream &#8216;racism&#8217; these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In London, a customer asked,<br>&#8220;Do you have &#8220;Sarso Da Tel?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shopkeeper says &#8220;are you a &#8220;Sardar&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guy, clearly offended, says,<br>&#8220;Yes I am&#8230;But let me ask you something.<br>If I had asked for Olive Oil, would you ask me if I was Italian?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or if I had asked for Bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was Jewish?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If i had asked for halal meat..wud u ask me if I was Muslim?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or if I had asked for a Taco, would you ask if I was Mexican?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shopkeeper says, &#8220;No, I probably wouldn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guy says, &#8220;Well then, because I asked for Sarso Da Tel, why did you ask if I am a Sardar?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shopkeeper replied,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Because, this is a wine shop&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Everyone seems to be in such a hurry to scream &#8216;racism&#8217; these days. In London, a customer asked,&#8220;Do you have &#8220;Sarso Da Tel?&#8221; The shopkeeper&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2],"tags":[572,245,844,845],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-a-smile","category-english","tag-english-article","tag-just-for-fun","tag-racism","tag-sardar"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2867,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}