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What exactly is the difference between "Rusyn" and "Russian"? Is the former a subset of the latter? Is the former an ethnic rendering of the latter? Does the latter have negative connotations? Does the former have specific geography, while the latter implies all the former USSR?
Thank you for your answers
Penthaetria, an Anglo-Saxon-Teutonic-Apache mix who doesn't understand the fierce ethno-nationalism at work in this crazy world of ours
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I suggest that you go to the websites www.c-rs.org [ c-rs.org] and also the Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge base base site as well. It is a bit complicated to discuss in a breif paragraph, especially the original meaning of the word over the last 800 years vs. the geo-political ethnographic modern use of the word. Ung-Certez (a good MagyarOrosz!)
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Originally posted by Pentha Tria:
What exactly is the difference between "Rusyn" and "Russian"? Penthaetria, You might also want to read this article by Rich Custer, a friend who used to post here as LemkoRusyn What Is a Rusyn, Anyway? [ carpatho-rusyn.org] Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Good grief! Ask a simple question on this forum and get a college education! Many thanks.
But this still leaves my original question... what then is a "Russian"?
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A "Muscovite" (Moskaly)!
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Surely a Russian is a citizen of Russia. When speaking of people in the diaspora, a Russian is someone who asserts, with some semblance of reason, that his cultural identity is Russian.
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