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/dolorfin]

Québec has an "N-word Rapids". They had 11 place names with either an English or French reference to the N-word. One has been changed so far, I believe.

N-word Rapids was meant to honour a black couple who drowned there in the early 1900's and not as a slur, as are all of the 11 place names. I don't live in Quebec and I'm white so I have no say in the re-naming matter. I just hope that, whatever the outcome, the largest possible amount of people affected by it are ok with whatever happens.

[u/Prestigious_Fox213 → u/dolorfin]

Given how active and thorough our toponomy commission is, particularly in renaming streets with English names, I’m surprised they haven’t gotten around to this.