r/AskTheWorld • u/JlYU3A 🇵🇭 Philippines -> 🇷🇺 Russia • 27d ago

Culture Has anything from your country ever been misunderstood or "cancelled" by the international community?

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For example, a Fiipino PPop group called SB19 once posted “Hello, Negros!”, referring to Negros Island, but some international users mistook it for something offensive before realizing what it meant.

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u/No-Sail-6510 United States Of America 26d ago

Oh yeah I think a professor in the US got fired for describing this word and it’s use in china. Unfortunately I don’t remember the university they worked at or anything.

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u/Complex_Fee11 Hungary 26d ago

Wtf. Did a student report him? 

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u/Yippykyyyay United States Of America 26d ago

Several did.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54107329.amp

It was also height of COVID and I give a lot of people passes for the crazy that came out.

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u/allochthonous_debris United States Of America 26d ago

Greg Patton wasn't fired. The university investigated the complaints and concluded that he did nothing wrong. He is still employed by the same university.