Ukrainian-Americans were previously split by generation and religious identity. One Harvard scholar says that the past decade of actions by Russian President Putin has made the community more united.
The Ukrainian-American community is mobilizing after Ukraine was invaded by Russia. One scholar says that in the past decade, opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin has unified this community in a new way., the director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at Harvard University, says that the Ukrainian-American community is multi-generational."You have a lot of folks who came over, or their parents came over, during World War II, for example," she notes.
She also notes that the Ukrainian-American community comprises a multitude of religious groups, including Jewish people , to various Christian communities, includingRegardless of the particularities of their individual backgrounds, however, Channell-Justice says that in her observations, Ukrainian-Americans have mobilized and unified against Putin., is to say that Ukraine is the same as Russia culturally, historically and linguistically.
Channell-Justice says Ukrainian-Americans do so in part because those arguments actually long predate Putin.
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