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.

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    10 months ago

    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

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      Those look spooky as fuck I wouldn’t wanna spot that on the horizon while wandering the fields of Poland