Lost in Translation

Just as the Muslim world is misunderstood in the West, and gets a bad press, so the Western world is misunderstood, and gets a bad press, in the Middle East. One of my students complained about getting a drivers’ license while he was in the US, on which was printed a warning that he must not drink and drive, and when he brought it back home, the authorities refused to recognize it, because they were convinced that it actually said, coming from the West, that you must drink and drive.

The form for my health card asks for the names of family members. There is a check box to identify each wife, one through four.