A pivotal article published a few days ago in the NYT and going viral on the internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/worl ... raine.html
There is a concerted effort to cover up the Ukrainian population's veneration for their Nazi past.
There has been a lot of reports of Ukrainian refugees in the Germany and the US who believe in Ukrainian racial superiority and their opposition to be be housed and schooled with non-white asylum seekers.
Here's a post on Twitter from an English teacher in New York
I teach English as a second language to adults. My institution recently welcomed a slew of Ukrainian refugees as students. They are indeed ethnonationalists to the core and are apprehensive about multiculturalism; media have covered stories of such sentiments. In my personal experience, though they go above and beyond to show their appreciation to us as hosts, their ethnonationalism shines through disturbingly. One gave a presentation in my class on the Ukr-Ruso War; she talked unapologetically about the ethnic superiority of Ukrainians. Russians were framed in the manner in which racialists describe Black people as apes, more or less as primitive. She projected pictures of a forested Moscow against a developed metropolitan Kiev during the same time period, a juxtaposition to highlight Russia's backwardness. They also express a poorly veiled disdain for Latin students and Black teachers. It is sincere and not performative in that they really don't want to offend but really don't understand American history and culture.
10 Jun 2023, 10:43 pm
