{"id":8689,"date":"2010-06-22T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/how-the-gulf-crisis-made-bp-british-again\/"},"modified":"2010-06-22T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T16:53:07","slug":"how-the-gulf-crisis-made-bp-british-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/how-the-gulf-crisis-made-bp-british-again\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Gulf\u00a0crisis\u00a0made BP British\u00a0again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2257377\/'>How the Gulf\u00a0crisis\u00a0made BP British\u00a0again<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.slate.com\/media\/1\/123125\/123051\/2240279\/2255633\/100621_%24box_BPTN.jpg\" align=\"top\" height=\"195\" width=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Companies frequently abbreviate their names in order to present a more generic, less nationalistic face to consumers around the world. It&rsquo;s AT&amp;T, not American Telegraph &amp; Telephone. Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation presents itself to banking customers in Washington, D.C., as HSBC. Swapping specific city and country names for generic abbreviations makes sense for globe-trotting companies. Even in an age of globalization, nationalism can be a powerful influence on consumer behavior. And in times of crisis, national biases can come to the fore quickly\u2014and harshly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Gulf\u00a0crisis\u00a0made BP British\u00a0again Companies frequently abbreviate their names in order to present a more generic, less nationalistic face to consumers around the world. It&rsquo;s AT&amp;T, not American Telegraph &amp; Telephone. Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation presents itself to banking customers in Washington, D.C., as HSBC. Swapping specific city and country names for generic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/how-the-gulf-crisis-made-bp-british-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How the Gulf\u00a0crisis\u00a0made BP British\u00a0again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}