I found a wonderful web site by Mark Rosenfelder. He has many interesting pages. My favorites are:

How to tell if you're Ukrainian How to tell if you're American

Here are some my favorite items from the page titled How to tell if you're Ukrainian.

You are still culturally very connected to Russia. Most of the trashy pop and witless comedians you know originate... more

I didn't realize that Max Levchin who co-founded paypal.com in 1998 was born in Ukraine. Too cool...

Around the time he immigrated to Chicago from Ukraine as a teenager in 1991, Max Levchin became obsessed with cryptography. Living under the old Soviet regime convinced him of the need to carry out communications undetectable by authorities. As a computer science student at the University of Illinois, he immersed himself in the mathematics of creating and breaking codes, not only making it the focus of his studies but also, he says, turning his pursuit into a "huge hobby" that consumed countless days and nights at the supercomputer center on the Urbana-Champaign campus.... more

Ukraine has a very homogeneous population. Based on a 2001 census 77.8% of the population is Ukrainian and 17.3% are Russian. The remaining 4.9% are Belarusian, Moldovan, Crimean Tatar, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, Jewish and Other.

The African and Korean people of Ukraine fall into the Other category.

While many people realize there are Rom children... more

This post is about Ukrainian and Russian ethnicities inside of Ukraine. FYI... I drew the Ukrainian and Russian flags in Microsoft Paint.

Ukrainian joke: Ukrainian man insists on adopting a black child. So husband and wife travel from orphanage to orphanage. And finally they find a black child at the tenth orphanage. They adopted the child and get him settled in the car to take him home. Wife finally asks, "Why did our child have to be black?". Husband replies, "This way, I am 100% certain he isn't Russian".

Ethnicity... more

Adrienne's blog on Bring a hat - or else! was a flash back for me. It made me think about my experience with hats, oranges and frozen ovaries.

As I mentioned in my post Ukrainian History: Suggested Reading Ukraine wasn't a country until 1991. And many areas of the country more closely identify with Russia then Ukraine. So there are many cultural similarities between Russian and Ukraine. (Adrienne adopted from... more