Rusyn

[Elena Gapova]

I am not saying that Americans do not have an ethnicity (this is a whole
different issue), but that ethnicity was not the organizing principle of the
emerging statehood. Some civic ideas were.

e.g.

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Sent: 22 June 2004 1:26 AM
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> 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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