UKRAINIAN-AMERICANS: A missed opportunity x 2?

Over the past several days, Ukrainian-Canadians have been staging demonstrations in Edmonton, Calgary, several smaller prairie towns, and in front of the Ukrainian Embassy in Toronto, in a show of solidarity with their families back home. While not massive, they are getting extensive press coverage, discussing on air their concern for their loved ones, as well as their insight into the current political situation.

It seems to me if Ukrainian-Americans were to do the same, they would not only be venting their concerns over the current troubles brewing in their motherland, but they could use the opportunity to voice their own frustrations regarding your recent elections.

A "back door voter-fraud protest", if you will. And the media WOULD cover it (the old hook being "we're the greatest democracy in the world; let's show them how free WE are, blah, blah, blah...). Thus far, I've seen nothing of the sort on your media, just turkey 'n fixin's and fights at basketball games.

Is this a missed opportunity? Colin Powell just made a statement on TV; this story ain't going away.

Or is apathy really that rampant?


edit: I just scrolled through the "latest threads". Turkey (the bird) is quite important to you folks, innit?

it does seem this is a country of apathy. Nov3 should have been the same in Washington as the post-election day in Kiev!

:eyes:

As a society, we are hopelessly myopic and parochial when it comes to world news. If it impacts us, then it gets reported. Stories like the atrocities in Darfur only break through into the public consciousness through the sheer proportion of the tragedy. And even then, I don't see very much coverage by the American MSM.

Vote fraud and manipulation in Ukraine? Too obscure in the eyes of "the powers that be."

-MR

Well, that ought to propel the story into the news.

:-)

-MR

The Ukranian community in Canada is huge compared to that in the United States. My opinion supports that of political analysts who say that the Ukranian community is conservative (or maybe the ones who stay in the Ukranian Orthodox church are conservative while the rest of us are long gone). Their conservatism is likely a function of the communists who horribly murdered the Ukranian people in a famine and purges.

There is a Ukranian church a few miles from here. I would surely like to know what they are thinking, but I don't know how welcome an unmarried skeptic would be showing up just to pursue a political agenda.

FYI, I was studying this story this morning at the CBC website Ukranian stories

Just to clarify, I really believe their voice would be effective, if not a brilliant tactic bringing US voter fraud into the fray. A double whammy/win-win situation.

And, TheBorealAvenger, you're correct about the size of the Ukrainian community in Canada. Apparently, when arriving in the late 1800's and early 1900's as immigrants, it reminded them of home. (no kidding)

Cheers.


edit: I was kidding about your apparent obssesion with turkey in my first post (we celebrated a month ago). Happy Thanksgiving!!!

A few hundred people in front of the Ukranian Embassy.