{"id":98,"date":"2008-12-08T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cfchimp.com\/wordpress\/?p=98"},"modified":"2024-12-05T19:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:59:44","slug":"can-a-dropdown-box-be-imperialistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/2008\/12\/can-a-dropdown-box-be-imperialistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a dropdown box be imperialistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/usa.gif\"><img width=\"258\" height=\"300\" data-public-id=\"usa\/usa.gif\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-post-98 wp-image-99\" title=\"usa! usa! usa!\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ccsimmons\/images\/w_258,h_300,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/usa\/usa.gif?_i=AA\" alt=\"usa! usa! usa!\" data-format=\"gif\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1\" data-seo=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ccsimmons\/images\/w_258,h_300,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/usa\/usa.gif?_i=AA 258w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ccsimmons\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/usa\/usa.gif?_i=AA 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>\u00ac\u0086<\/p>\n<p>I\u00ac\u0086recently received a\u00ac\u0086request from a management member to put &#8220;United States of America&#8221; at the top of the countries dropdown list for our user registration process.\u00ac\u0086 While this may seem an innocuous change to that person we do have a lot (maybe 1\/3) of users not born in the U.S.\u00ac\u0086\u00ac\u0086 I know it used to be popular to put the good\u00ac\u0086ole\u00ac\u0086U S of A atop of dropdown lists for <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">its vast superiority<\/span> &#8220;convenience&#8221; but it seems somewhat &#8220;politically incorrect&#8221; or &#8220;imperialistic&#8221; to me.\u00ac\u0086 Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ac\u0086 I\u00ac\u0086recently received a\u00ac\u0086request from a management member to put &#8220;United States of America&#8221; at the top of the countries dropdown list for our user registration process.\u00ac\u0086 While this may seem an innocuous change to that person we do have a lot (maybe 1\/3) of users not born in the U.S.\u00ac\u0086\u00ac\u0086 I know it used &#8230; <a title=\"Can a dropdown box be imperialistic?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/2008\/12\/can-a-dropdown-box-be-imperialistic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Can a dropdown box be imperialistic?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developer","tag-developer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbVg43-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}