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People should stop hate Ukrianian culture.
a year ago
Even after a Russian full-scale conquest war against Ukraine begun, there are still tons of people who believe that Ukrainian culture "does not exist".
1. False "Russians are supreme" narrative, suggesting that Russians national idea, lives and culture are "above" Ukrainian people.
2. Ukrainian things (artists; scientists, sportsmen, being active before Ukraine got its independence; writters, cuisine etc.), recognized worldwide, being "stolen" by being labelled as "Russian".
3. Banning of Ukrainian language by promoting false narrative of "non-Ukrainian speakers are "discriminated", based on a language law, dedicated to make Ukrainian language more relevant (prior, we had the majority of media and press on Russian language and people lived with a Soviet-originated thought of Ukrainian language being "for villagers and stupid jokes" only".
At same time, nobody minds similar laws being adopted in other countries (a Feench language law, for example).
4. Promotion of Russian colonialism by mentioning Ukrainian history in light of the times when Ukrainian lands were conquered only.
5. False representation of Ukraine in Hollywood and anime series.
Examples.
Indiana Jones and the Diamond Skull. A Ukrainian main antagonist is a NKVD agent (the promotion of "all good Soviets "were" Russian and all crimes of Soviet regime was done by "anybody, but Russians" whitewashing narrative).
Transformers series. Ukraine is portrayed via Chornobyl only.
Doctor Haos series. A Ukrainian emigrant, who came to USA to get a job with a low salary (by American standarts).
Emily in Paris series. A Ukrainian emigrant had robbed a main protagonist (there even was an international scandal).
Hetalia. Even though Ukraine was labelled as a "sucessor of Kyiv Rus", a humanized Ukraine was portrayed as a farmer while "sinblings" (Russia and Belarus. If they are "siblings" because they are Slavs, why aren't other Slav nations such as Poles, Slovaks, Serbs etc. are siblings, too?) are veing portrayed as a sort of "elite city inhabitants". Also jokes about "gas wars".
5. Representation of Ukraine in persons by false ones.
Examples:
Leo Trotskyi (wasn't even a Ukrainian; one of USSR founders; took part in conquering Ukraine by USSR).
Nikita Khruschev and Leonid Brezhnev (communust leaders; jailed a lot of Ukrainian disidents, some of which died in detention).
Chikatilo (a serial murderer).
Michael Bulgakov (an ethnic Russian, just happened to live in Kyiv; used to hate Ukraine and used to mock Ukrainian language).
It makes the impression of us "not having" any notable persons besides of either non-Ukrainian inhabitants of Ukraine or bad communist guys.
On other hand, Ukrainians of whom we, Ukrainian people, being proud of - are forgotten. Or treated as "Russian".
1. False "Russians are supreme" narrative, suggesting that Russians national idea, lives and culture are "above" Ukrainian people.
2. Ukrainian things (artists; scientists, sportsmen, being active before Ukraine got its independence; writters, cuisine etc.), recognized worldwide, being "stolen" by being labelled as "Russian".
3. Banning of Ukrainian language by promoting false narrative of "non-Ukrainian speakers are "discriminated", based on a language law, dedicated to make Ukrainian language more relevant (prior, we had the majority of media and press on Russian language and people lived with a Soviet-originated thought of Ukrainian language being "for villagers and stupid jokes" only".
At same time, nobody minds similar laws being adopted in other countries (a Feench language law, for example).
4. Promotion of Russian colonialism by mentioning Ukrainian history in light of the times when Ukrainian lands were conquered only.
5. False representation of Ukraine in Hollywood and anime series.
Examples.
Indiana Jones and the Diamond Skull. A Ukrainian main antagonist is a NKVD agent (the promotion of "all good Soviets "were" Russian and all crimes of Soviet regime was done by "anybody, but Russians" whitewashing narrative).
Transformers series. Ukraine is portrayed via Chornobyl only.
Doctor Haos series. A Ukrainian emigrant, who came to USA to get a job with a low salary (by American standarts).
Emily in Paris series. A Ukrainian emigrant had robbed a main protagonist (there even was an international scandal).
Hetalia. Even though Ukraine was labelled as a "sucessor of Kyiv Rus", a humanized Ukraine was portrayed as a farmer while "sinblings" (Russia and Belarus. If they are "siblings" because they are Slavs, why aren't other Slav nations such as Poles, Slovaks, Serbs etc. are siblings, too?) are veing portrayed as a sort of "elite city inhabitants". Also jokes about "gas wars".
5. Representation of Ukraine in persons by false ones.
Examples:
Leo Trotskyi (wasn't even a Ukrainian; one of USSR founders; took part in conquering Ukraine by USSR).
Nikita Khruschev and Leonid Brezhnev (communust leaders; jailed a lot of Ukrainian disidents, some of which died in detention).
Chikatilo (a serial murderer).
Michael Bulgakov (an ethnic Russian, just happened to live in Kyiv; used to hate Ukraine and used to mock Ukrainian language).
It makes the impression of us "not having" any notable persons besides of either non-Ukrainian inhabitants of Ukraine or bad communist guys.
On other hand, Ukrainians of whom we, Ukrainian people, being proud of - are forgotten. Or treated as "Russian".
