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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"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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