speaking a language and being of certain decent are two different things. i also know many ukrainians, many russians and many deutschrussen. imagine it as a switzerland if you could. or maybe belgium. one country, similar but still different people. rlthere are probably swedish enclaves in Finnland? are they finnish with swedish decent?
They do not see themselves as Swedes.
Beside that, I do not understand what you are trying to say with your comment, and cannot react to it in a very meaningful manner.
You referred to a statistic where people’s everyday language is incorrectly conflated with their nationality and then used that statistic to claim that the eastern half of Ukraine was identifying as Russians. That statistic was erroneous precisely for the reason you are bringing up: Being of a certain descent and speaking a language are not always connected. And also, being of a certain descent does not mean that you identify as being a part of the culture you are descent of.
speaking a language and being of certain decent are two different things. i also know many ukrainians, many russians and many deutschrussen. imagine it as a switzerland if you could. or maybe belgium. one country, similar but still different people. rlthere are probably swedish enclaves in Finnland? are they finnish with swedish decent?
They do not see themselves as Swedes. Beside that, I do not understand what you are trying to say with your comment, and cannot react to it in a very meaningful manner.
You referred to a statistic where people’s everyday language is incorrectly conflated with their nationality and then used that statistic to claim that the eastern half of Ukraine was identifying as Russians. That statistic was erroneous precisely for the reason you are bringing up: Being of a certain descent and speaking a language are not always connected. And also, being of a certain descent does not mean that you identify as being a part of the culture you are descent of.