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Blogging with Cultural Sensitivity

Here is a real life example marketing communication without due consideration to cultural sensitivity. It must surely rank as the ultimate nightmare of a marketer. This lesson can be applied to blogging as well.

This is why the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank cannot make it in Malaysia.

 

A piggy mascot is all good and dandy to the Chinese, but pork or babi is taboo in Muslims societies.

It’s bad enough using a baby babi as mascot, but giving that name “Puki” is really stretching their luck overboard! That is a Malay vulgar phrase referring to a certain female anatomy! Enough said!


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