Unrelated, but I live in Poland and there's similar thing related to names.
Stereotypical Janusz and Grażyna are boomers, Karyna means a poor woman that's not exactly educated, and so on. It is not only American phenomenon.
Which ends up funny if you migrate there. I've heard so many stories other Poles going there, declaring they are atheists so they won't pay taxes, and then being surprised when they come back only to their their local priests laughing them out of door when they want service XD
In Poland, there was a relatively famous historian of philosophy recommended to people interested in philosophy, Władysław Tatarkiewicz and his three tomes of Historia filozofii.
His chapter on Nietzsche was also just disastrous, while reading this, I had wondered whether he even knew who Nietzsche was.
So it's not just one time thing.
I remember reading that chapter - though I wish I had forgotten it. It made me look at Russell in a negative way.
Libraries in my city (Łódź, Poland) are absolutely terrible. All they have are history books that remember the communist occupation and the cheapest popular novels.