Re: How Ukrainian is Ukraine ?

From: Reinhold (Rey) Aman (aman_at_sonic.net)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:29:41 GMT

Seriozha (Sergei) wrote:

[...]

> Nationality is an arbitrary conceipt. For example, my brother living
> in Kharkiv was counted as Ukrainian during the latest census, but me
> and my sister living in Moscow are counted as Russians. The same with
> other relatives. A very large portion of Russians has some Ukrainian
> grandfather or grandmother and vice versa, so you may choose your
> nationality. And people usually choose to belong to the titular nation
> of the state they live in.
>
> This artificial idea of nationality has little bearing to the language
> people speak. Ukraine is no homogenous state. It was artificially
> constructed by Stalin and his band from motley patches. A review of
> each region is needed to understand who speaks what:

[...]

Sergei, thank you very much for your most informative and detailed
report about the languages, regions, history, and politics of Ukraine. Excellent! 

-- 
Reinhold (Rey) Aman
Santa Rosa, CA 95402, USA

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