Not all “Slavic” countries are the same. Not all regions are the same. Western Slavs (Czech Republic), Southern Slavs (the Balkans), and Eastern Slavs (Russia) are all different. No one is going to call you the n-word in Prague any more than they would in America.
The issue with Ukraine is that they have no tourism from outside the region so even well meaning people will not know how to act. They might ask if you know LeBron James or whether you can play basketball, just to strike up a conversation. They literally don’t know that’s insulting.
Right but that’s also hard to start a conversation with. Like if you ask them, “Hey is Chernobyl really that bad?” they might get offended. The average Ukrainian is not proud of that.
I worked with Ukrainian immigrants decades ago and found them all to be extremely easy to converse with. They do almost all the work for you and their sense of humour is top notch. TBH you really could ask that question and they’d laugh, make some quip, share their sandwich and next thing you know you’re having dinner at their place tomorrow.
Not all “Slavic” countries are the same. Not all regions are the same. Western Slavs (Czech Republic), Southern Slavs (the Balkans), and Eastern Slavs (Russia) are all different. No one is going to call you the n-word in Prague any more than they would in America.
The issue with Ukraine is that they have no tourism from outside the region so even well meaning people will not know how to act. They might ask if you know LeBron James or whether you can play basketball, just to strike up a conversation. They literally don’t know that’s insulting.
Think about what you know about Ukraine:
They’re in a war.
They like vodka.
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Sunflowers/ sunflower oil is produced in abundance
wheat/flour also
chernobyl is there
Stalins soviet unión starved it’s people to death
the people could have chosen a leader to lick putins ass, but instead chose democracy and voted in a former comedian
2016 (14?) armed forces looked like a cast off of old soviet era gear, they saw what was coming and changed/started modernización
And also one of my absolute favorite paintings is from there (the second one still is, they relocated it at the start of the war)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
Huh…im no scholar but i know a little more about Ukraine than i thought.
Right but that’s also hard to start a conversation with. Like if you ask them, “Hey is Chernobyl really that bad?” they might get offended. The average Ukrainian is not proud of that.
Yeah thats not a good icebreaker. Like, “Soooooo… 9/11, never forget, right?”
I worked with Ukrainian immigrants decades ago and found them all to be extremely easy to converse with. They do almost all the work for you and their sense of humour is top notch. TBH you really could ask that question and they’d laugh, make some quip, share their sandwich and next thing you know you’re having dinner at their place tomorrow.