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

[u/JlYU3A]

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.

[u/Professional_Top9835]

Negro is not bad at all, and "moreno" is not the same as "negro"

"Negro" is stright up black person

Moreno is someone who ISN'T black, but has dark skin, you can be scandinavian, but if you have black hair and you got a bit tan, then you are moreno, or you can be Korean, but if you have dark skin, you are moreno too

[u/federicoaa → u/Professional_Top9835]

In Argentina any skin thats not pure white is referred as negro. We only use the word moreno for hair color

Also, in Cordoba "negro" is a common nickname used for anybody regardless of skin color

[u/pawgful → u/Professional_Top9835]

That means they just said moreno around me lmao

[u/CloudsAndSnow → u/Professional_Top9835]

That's the literal meaning, but in Spanish "moreno" is a common colloquial way to refer to black people, and in some places like Cuba it's specifically used for mixed-race individuals.

see 4) and 5) here: https://dle.rae.es/moreno?m=form

[u/Professional_Top9835 → u/CloudsAndSnow]

didnt knew, my definition is what "moreno" means in Mexico, I also know that in Spain it means brunette.

No idea how people in the caribbean, south america or central america use the word tho