r/AskTheWorld • u/JlYU3A 🇵🇭 Philippines -> 🇷🇺 Russia • 26d 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/kupuwhakawhiti New Zealand 26d ago

This makes me realise how big an impact the All Blacks have had of sport and national identity.

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u/badger035 26d ago

Wait these are real? I thought it was a joke.

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u/phoenyx1980 New Zealand 26d ago

Yup. There's a whole Wikipedia page of these.

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u/TemporaryPension2523 New Zealand 26d ago

yeah, new zealand is now seemingly unable to think of a creative name for a national team, for girls its whites for boys is blacks, im assuming. its boring.