Culturally inappropriate names


Incidence

In China in 1996 some 2,000 companies were ordered to change their names from versions with vulgar, feudalistic, bizarre and Western-sounding connotations, perceived to be undermining national culture; some Western-sounding names were rejected because they appealed to the prejudice of status conscious people who preferred Western goods.

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