Lemky i Bojki

[BOSNIA_MAN]

The diaspora or Ukrainian-American and Ukrainian-Canadian communities which are almost always made up of immigrants from Western and West-Central Ukraine are mostly third, fourth, or even fifth generation American. They maintain their culture even so many generations later because they live in these specific ethnic communities. Every once in a while they are infused with a fresh group of newcomers from Ukraine so it keeps the cycle going. The same can be said of Polish, Greek, Serbian, Scottish, Irish, Chinese, Indian, and Italian communities. The communities where the Russians, Ukrainians, Moldovians, and other former Soviet peoples are typically overwhelmingly Jewish communtities and are almost all new immigrants fresh off the boat (or plane). They are the distinct minority of ethnic communtities here in the Americas.

I think it is important that we forgo further discussion on this topic in this message thread and instead start a new one for this. The original message about Lemkos and Boykos is being lost and I think ti warrants a good discussion.

(FYI: I'm not from Bosnia, nor am I Bosnian. I'm just fascinated with Bosnia, too. So no hard feelings for other Slavs here.)