As an Asian person, this sounds like a lot of the bs people online say about Chinese people, so I guess I’m more sensitive to this kind of stuff.
As an Asian person, this sounds like a lot of the bs people online say about Chinese people, so I guess I’m more sensitive to this kind of stuff.
Poland fact: in polish, “chochoł” (pronounced very similarly as in Russian), while rarily used for Ukranians despite the same etymology from the cossack hairstyle, is much more insulting because it means “strawman”, so calling a man (it’s specifically masculine insult) chochoł is expressing quite high level of disdain.
Oh nice to know! So it is just a well-known insult in Poland?
Basically yeah, not many people will make the connection between it and Ukraine. Most used is as common word for the straw protection from frost draped on trees or sheaves or potato pits etc., or scarecrow.
For example: chochoły on the field
It also have tons of folk and literature meanings, which aren’t very relevant, mostly about farming.
Those look spooky as fuck I wouldn’t wanna spot that on the horizon while wandering the fields of Poland