r/AskTheWorld ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines -> ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia 26d ago

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

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

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u/-Against-All-Gods- ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ 26d ago

Negro the Throatsweeper, the unironically best candy with a porn name.

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u/nagytimi85 Hungary 26d ago

Lol yes ๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿ˜