Random tidbits about Ukrainian Culture!

i truly could be speaking about this for hours, however for now, i'd love to simply show some random cool information for fun!

UKRAINIAN TRADITIONAL CLOTHES:
ukrainian traditional clothes are very interesting, but the largest and most famous component is probably the VYSHYVANKA, an embroidered shirt! it typically looks a bit different for women vs men. google them and tell me, can you spot the difference? (the sleeves are typically embroidered for women but not for most men)
as a nonbinary person, i'd probably want something that would look like the mix of the two. like only one sleeve embroidered, i dunno.

most ukrainians have maybe one or a couple of vyshyvankas and typically wear them on special occasions only like holidays; not super duper often in everyday life
most don't have any other ukrainian clothes.
still, it's cool that modern people wear them sometimes. also, they come in all kinds of colors and shapes!

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WE ALSO HAVE A VERY COOL THING WHICH ARE OUR TRADITIONAL FLOWER WREATHS/CROWNS! I LOVE THEM!
my character MISHA from LOSERS OF NEAR-KYIV has a ribbon braided into their hair, as inspiration from these. their ribbon symbolizes water, but i like to imagine them switching to other ribbons sometimes, with different symbolisms.

considering their transgender nature, i think their ribbon, as short and hidden as it is, helps them feel like they have some kind of connection to feminity in secret.

RANDOM FUN FACTS ABOUT UKRAINE/UKRAINIANS:
- we love our traditional food. we also love our food products like Живчик the drink, Lovare the tea, Roshen candy, and lots of other stuff.
- most of food eaten in ukraine is produced in ukraine. agricultural field is HUGE, and historically we are very much farmer people
- we got lotsa cool fairy/folk tales with anthropomorphic forest animals
- we swear a lot.
- even though we have a large christian population, our main winter holiday is NEW YEAR, not christmas! it happened due to USSR historical reasons.
- we like and deeply study our literature, poetry, language, and history: lots of our memes are related to that. unfortunately that means as a ukrainian i cannot send most my foreign friends these memes because even if i translated them, they would be quite meaningless 😭💔
- we have a really major pancake holiday
- we're eastern european hence many of us really value and appreciate bread.

TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN ART

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POST-SOVIET / MODERN UKRAINE AESTHETIC

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WHO LIVES IN UKRAINE ?

epic cool facts about people who live in ukraine: most of us are ukrainian.
many of us happen to also come from eastern european countries: bulgarians, poles, romanians, hungarians, etc

outside of that, we also have a lot of people of jewish origin, and people of west/central asian origin (like kazakhs, uzbeks, azerbaijani, georgians, tatars) or north asian origin (like yakuts, altai, who happen to be the indegenous people of russian far east).
we also are also a home to koryo-saram: ethnic koreans who lived in USSR and now live in post-soviet countries.

ukraine also has it's native groups outside of, well, plain slavic ukrainians. we have native people of crimea: krymchaks and crimean karaites, populations of both being around 1000 people in total across the world, and crimean tatars (whose population is significantly larger, being many hundreds of thousands of people).

ukraine also has a very high amount of romani people!
out of people not mentioned before, we also have a percentage of immigrants from asian countries like turkey and india and from african countries, mostly nigeria and morocco.

i did my history lesson i guess! enjoy!