--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> [WS:] Ukrainians share the same ethnicity as
> Russians, or for that matter,
> Poles, Czechs, Germans or Swedes.
They do? Would people have said that 500 years ago. This is a recent notion of "Europeanness" or "whiteness."
I would say that Russians, for instance, are closer culturally to Tatars and Kazakhs (despite usually having a different religion) than they are to Germans.
(Thoughts aren't flowing too well, as I am writing through a hangover not even mighty Mjolnir could crack.)
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