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.
Is she sure where her husband is from? They call him хохол. It is a Russian slur for people from Ukraine. See here. It doesn’t mean “pig”.
But all the other claims are just anecdotes. But the worst part is to say, that someone’s bad behaviour has something to do with its culture. This is not true. Russia is a state with a bunch of cultures and different ethnicities.
Racism and nationalistic tendencies are a big rising problem there because it is endorsed by the state (Lenin wrote enough about the great-Russian chauvinism). But nothing of it is genuine Russian. Compare the actual Russian society to how it was 50 years ago, totally different.
I am quite tired right now and so I won’t go into detail. It feels more like this persons doesnt like russians, because she had a bad experience with some. Yeah, this can happen.
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
Might easily be from Russia. A lot of Russian immigrants in the west are libshits that fled imaginary persecution, desperate to prove they didn’t uproot their entire life for nothing. You can imagine what sort of people those are. The sort of shit in the post is exactly what they tend to spread about Russia.