Rusyn

[colkitto]

From: "Elena Gapova" <e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Rusyn


> I would say this is because the American state project emerged out of
civic,
> not ethnic nationalism (not "from krov' i pochva", and language as the
main
> marker of  "the people").

American ethnicity is actually of longer-standing than many European
ethnicities, especially many Slavic ones, some of which have been mentioned
on this list, e.g., Macedonian.

Robert Orr

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