• Etterra@discuss.online
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    7 days ago

    That word sounds both foreign and vaguely racist, and I’m a little afraid to find out why.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      It’s Chinese white alcohol with a fairly high alcohol content. The word itself is literally just the pinyin (aka the way to write Chinese words using an English keyboard) written out.

      So “Bai” is white and “jiu” is alcohol.

      lol, so I don’t think there’s any racist connotation to it, although it can seem that way.