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Originally Posted by Docere
Is being Ukrainian in Winnipeg like being Polish in Buffalo?
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How does culture/language/identity/cuisine preservation and intermarriage differ between them?
My instinct is to say that due to the bloc settlement thing and later multiculturalism framing my perspective (so maybe this is familiarity with the Canadian narrative bias talking), on the whole Ukrainian Canadians preserve culture considerably more than many "white American" ethnic counterparts (not counting particular ethnoreligious enclaves deliberately set up by Amish, Mennonite, Orthodox Jewish), like there are 5th generation Ukrainian speakers but few US white ethnic groups like this.
Then again I could be wrong... there could be European ethnic settlements (e.g. Texas German) still as lively to the 20th century in cultural preservation as Canadian prairie bloc settlement.
Canadian Ukrainian enclaves' probably hard to top for any US eastern Europe origin counterpart, are any Polish enclaves as Polish culturally (in either country) as Canadian Ukrainians are Ukrainian, relative to their timing of settlement?