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Internationalizing Applications
Preparing the User Interface : Graphics and icons : Images to avoid in graphics and icons : References to sports
 
References to sports
References to sports are misleading and confusing. Some sports are only known regionally. For example, baseball, cricket, and sumo wrestling are known in specific geographic areas. A reference to "home run" to imply success is clearly culturally biased. Users from countries that do not play baseball would not understand this reference.