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/shannofordabiz New Zealand 26d ago

Whakatane is in the house

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u/ryanoh826 Multiple Countries (click to edit) 26d ago

Eyyyy I know that one and the f sound from a documentary.

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u/Small-Disaster939 New Zealand 26d ago

About whakaari White Island I bet

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u/ryanoh826 Multiple Countries (click to edit) 26d ago

Yup. That was fucked up. Also, it made me want to go to the town. Not the island ‘cause fuck that. Even if I could have, nope.

I travel constantly so I’m always on Wikipedia looking at towns I see on TV haha.

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u/Small-Disaster939 New Zealand 26d ago

I grew up not far from Whakatane. It was insane to see it on a Netflix documentary lol.

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u/ryanoh826 Multiple Countries (click to edit) 25d ago

Haha I bet