[advocacy-discuss] Capital Region

[Fauzia Saeed]

I had been asked to market a product in China with 4 in its name.  The 
product had been very successful in the US.  I told the VP of marketing 
that a name change was recommended since the number "4" was equated with 
death in China.  The response I received was:

Please tell the management in your region that this perception is not 
shared by the Americans. The consumers will change their mind once they 
hear it is okay here.


Brandorr wrote:

> It's the capitol of the only country that matters, the United States 
> of America...
>
> -Brian
> (Please understand this is a joke playing off the stereotype that is 
> held by non-Americans of Americans). ;)
>
> On 8/9/07, *Alan Coopersmith* <alan.coopersmith at sun.com 
> <mailto:alan.coopersmith at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>     > The Capital Region OSUG moved to a project today:
>     > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crosug/
>
>     Could you encourage them to modify their web page to specify
>     which of the over 200 possible "National Capital Area" regions
>     they serve?   I see nothing on their web page to let me know if
>     it's Ottawa, Athens, Berlin, etc.  - from the photo I assume it's
>     probably one in Europe or North America, with greek-inspired
>     architecture.  (And the same goes for any other user group with
>     a generic name like that.)
>
>     --
>             -Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>     <mailto:alan.coopersmith at sun.com>
>              Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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