Ukraine/The Ukraine

[Jules Levin]

On 20.06.2014 11:25, Chernetsky, Vitaly A wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This thread is becoming increasingly a space for venting one's right to bigoted speech. Nobody is *FORCING* any one here to use one word/grammatical form and not the other; in the US at least, we have the First Amendment. However, the insistence on using vocabulary that the person(s) designated by this vocabulary find objectionable is hardly something to be proud of. I am saddened to see a number of colleagues digging in their heels in this stance.
>
> Sincerely,
>    
What is really really sad is the idea that the use of an article can be 
classified as "bigoted".  We live in insane times.
Jules Levin



> Vitaly Chernetsky
> President, American Association for Ukrainian Studies
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> Everyone arguing from personal address among individuals is missing the
> point.  Old guys like me are still coherent enough to switch to
> African-American when speaking to my A-A neighbor, but my neighbor is
> rational enough not to tell me to use only A-A even when speaking to my
> own family members in the privacy of my home.
> The fact is that a mature country self-confident in its identity does
> not concern itself with the grammatical details of how its neighbor
> speaks its name.    Countries that worry about such things are behaving
> like hypersensitive teenagers.  I realize that now the correct
> response--Oh grow up!--would be considered child abuse, but...
> Jules (chalk it up to Alzheimers) Levin
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