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Jared you wrote:

"Dave, perhaps you have also heard what happened when Gerber, the baby food
company, tried to enter the African market?
In Africa, cans are used, not little breakable glass jars. So, you can't see
what's inside and you have to put a very pretty picture On the label showing
folks who speak many tribal languages just what your product is.
Gerber's label shows a nice happy white baby.
They bombed, the local markets were abhorred that someone would be selling
can white baby parts."

 

It's a fun story, but this is an urban legend. It's in the same family as the story about the Chevy Nova selling poorly in Spanish-language countries because "Nova" looks like "No Va" which means "Doesn't Go" (never happened -- the Nova sold just fine). These are basically business-school parables. They encourage people to think by using tall tales about people who didn't think.