Re: whether Scots is a language When I was a DC tour guide I once told one of my friends about the statue they have of Taras Shevchenko in front of the Ukrainian Embassy "Shevchenko is considered the national poet of Ukraine and founder of the Ukrainian language movement"
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*beat* *beat* "Okay so you understand this kind of thing is why they have a 'movement'"
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"I'm not, like, from Ukraine but my understanding is they're actually very angry about this"
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When I was in college they had a ton of informal language clubs for learning languages that didn't have an official faculty department One of the posters said "What do all these Ukrainian celebrities have in common?" showing pictures of people like Mila Kunis and Mila Jovovich
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"None of them speak Ukrainian! Would you like to?" It was, admittedly, a hilarious pitch, that said everything they needed to say about cultural imperialism without actually saying it
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(Mila Kunis, for her part, actively disidentifies with Ukraine because her family emigrated due to fleeing widespread antisemitism, which she said she got hit with again when coming back to visit as a celebrity in 2012, so this is kind of a fraught multidimensional issue)
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I took an Uber with an older Russian friend. The driver's name was Roman, which led to the conversation: "You are Russian?" "No. I am from Ukraine." "Ah, basically Russian!" "No, UKRAINIAN." This was while Russia was invading Crimea; the Russo-Ukrainian condescension is real.
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