So let’s further the noble cause of recognizing Ukrainians as people worthy of some good, juicy stereotypes. Let me offer a few:
1. Ukrainians only have 2 emotional states: we either cry or laugh, but we do both with complete abandon.
2. It is very difficult to annoy Ukrainians because we are so laid back and happy. But once you do, we become like elephants who crush everything in their way.
3. Ukrainians eat the most unhealthy food in the world. After Americans, of course.
4. Ukrainians get extremely attached to their houses and decorate them to the point where they become very Baroque.
5. Ukrainians are very hard – working but mostly in what concerns menial tasks or working on the land.
6. Ukrainians have a very joyful exuberant sexuality that knows little boundaries.
7. Ukrainians are great at singing but horrible at dancing.
8. Ukrainians are scarily talkative. Very, very chatty people. Which you’d never guess based on the number of posts on this blog.
9. Ukrainian women are bossy and domineering in a way unequaled by women anywhere else in the world.
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I think I have mentioned before but I am Ukrainian (and Russian) on my father’s side. My last name is very stereotypically Ukrainian. #1 is actually very true of my entire family. It’s been a long standing family joke that we have too modes: weeping and laughing. 🙂
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I knew “Anville ” sounded familiar! You must be from the neighboring village! 🙂 🙂 (Joke)
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Until relatively recently Polish stereotypes of Ukrainians were remarkably similar to Western European (esp German) stereotypes of Poles : gloomy, lazy, drunk and liable to steal your car
Over the last ten years or so it’s gotten a lot better though partly similar to 80’s US stereotypes of Poles : tragic victims of Russian imperial agression (minus the religious attitudes) but also a good source of cheap labor (at any point in time there are several hundred thousand Ukrainians working on and off the books in Poland)
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“Until relatively recently Polish stereotypes of Ukrainians were remarkably similar to Western European (esp German) stereotypes of Poles : gloomy, lazy, drunk and liable to steal your car”
– This is exactly what I mean: we don’t even deserve our own stereotypes!
“Over the last ten years or so it’s gotten a lot better though partly similar to 80’s US stereotypes of Poles : tragic victims of Russian imperial agression”
– We are victims all right but I dare you to find a single tragic Ukrainian. Goofy is more like it.
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Stereotypes of Spaniards according to my students: lazy and contemptuous.
Stereotypes of Germans: punctual, hard-working, meticulous, Nazis.
Stereotypes of Americans: nosy, stupid, fat, hard-working.
Stereotypes of Italians: mean, horrible food.
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The stereotype of Italian is bad food for your students? Really? Generally Italians are associated with amazing food!
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May I remind you: https://clarissasblog.com/2012/08/04/ideology-aside-chick-fil-a-food-is-garbage/
🙂 🙂
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“I dare you to find a single tragic Ukrainian. Goofy is more like it.”
Well “goofball victims of Russian imperialism” doesn’t have a very good ring to it….
And I meant ‘tragic’ more in the sense that association with and subjugation to Russia have stifled (and continue to stifle) the cultural and economic development of the country. On paper Ukraine should be an economic powerhouse, why isn’t it? Oh yeah, that big thing to the north and east of it.
Ukrainians share a lot of the blame, but being detached from the Russian sphere of influence has done wonders for Poland and would (eventually) do wonders for Ukraine.
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I really really hope so. But now the question is how to convince the Russians just to go away and mind their own business.
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I know two more:
1. They are terrorized by the Ukranian mafia, therefore hardly dare do anything.
2. They always smoke cheap Priluki.
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I once met a Bosnian woman who was married to a Serb. These were Beska and Boro (the couple). I was advertising English tutoring and she phoned me and asked the price. I said I would not be able to travel to where they were, as it was too far for me. I said good bye and thought that was the end of the matter, but then half an hour later she called me back and said. “No, it’s okay, you are going to teach us. We are going to come to your house for tutoring and you will teach us there.”
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Are all Ukrainians horrible at dancing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TQvlsc5iWo
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In our defense, Rotaru is Moldavian. 🙂 But she does sing Ukrainian songs sometimes.
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