
Posted by rabotiaga on April 13, 2000 at 17:54:12:
In Reply to: To Rabotiaga posted by Yaro on April 13, 2000 at 15:24:38:
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: To "Rabotiaga":
: It's not a prejudice agains people with insufficient education. They could be much brighter than some of those with the highest degrees. I myself almost whole my life was a simple laborer and served as a regular private for 2 years in the Soviet military. It's a prejudice against people like you, who offends national symbols of Ukraine, spits on its language and culture, and hates everything Ukrainian. I learned Russian language and literature for some 10 years in higher school and college and probably know it better then you, "raboriaga". I would rather spend my time learning English or any other more useful language. I would not allow myself to say to any Russian that knowledge of his language doesn't lead me further than Siberia. Your messages in English are quite different from those in Russian. You didn't use such words as "zhri", "salo", etc. By the way, my salo is no comparison to your "shchi". I would rather have 1 kilogram of my "salo" then 10 buckets of your "shchi". For those who don't know - "shchi" is a soup made of cabbage and water, no salo there, sort of national Russian dish. And what about coat of arms, can I mock you on this? Sure I can. What if I tell you that your coat of arms is a "double-headed raven" or even chiken for me. How do you feel? Or, let's say, if I tell you, doesn't matter what kind of "administrator" you are, you could be Yolop Mongolskyi anyway. How is this? As you see, no sophisticated mind is needed for doing such things. There is no end to it. My 1000 year old Trident and your Double-Headed Eagle as well as national colors should be respected. I don't want to lecture you on obvious things. So, culture does matter. Is any exit from this stupidity? What about me learning your language and culture and you learning mine and respecting each other. This is the best way and most people will tell you so.
"Two-headed chiken" doesn't mean too much for me, either.
I am not going to compare "shi" with "salo" or "bliny" with "varenyky" or
"kolbasa" with "kovbasa" (for which people went to Moscow Ever heard of "Moskva kolbasnaja" station?)
That is just dumb. I would prefer caviar anyways :)
See, you can't grasp an idea of a person that does not care for big politics, other
than times when political crap gets in a way of a normal, everyday life.
Then I (and millions like me) get pissed and nothing good happens.
And again, I don't need to learn ukrainian since I can speak Ukrainian and I am
ethnically Ukrainian too, and I don't "hate everything Ukrainian".
Gogol, for example, is one of my favorite writers.
I just hate when somebody starts saying (or implying) "I am more Ukrainian than you are",
or "Moskaliv treba gnaty z Ukrainy",or like that "professor's" posting just a few
lines above which concludes that "ukrainian is a language of a people of great culture
whereas russian is a language of bandits" etc.
If you look at my first postings regarding the language, all that I said was that
I don't think the decision to make Ukrainian the only official language is a
good political decision at this point in time. And that (despite Lesia's "ne breshy"
super-smart argument) political decisions are tightly connected with economy
(I think last 10 years have proven that beyond any doubts).