Talk:Ukrainian Americans

Hallandale Beach? Sacramento?
I can't tell if this is an NPOV issue or a joke. The largest communities of Ukrainian-Americans are in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and North Dakota. How on earth did Hallandale make the list. Northport, maybe, but that's on the other side of Florida. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 167.83.10.20 (talk) 19:50, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

Deletion vote
I don't understand the need for deletion. This article will eventually be written. What's the deal?--tufkaa 04:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC) Please see Articles for deletion/List of Russian Americans. Badagnani 01:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Deletion discussion
See Articles for deletion/List of Ukrainian Americans. Badagnani 02:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Removal of picture
Kateryna Yushchenko's picture should be removed from the infobox. Since she took Ukrainian citzenship, it directly contradicts what a Ukrainian American is. Look at the first line of this topic. She really is a Ukrainian born in the U.S.A. Brudder Andrusha (talk) 01:13, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Cities with high percentage of Ukrainian Americans

 * I would think that Hamtramck, Michigan and Warren, Michigan should be on the list. 7&amp;6=thirteen (talk) 12:41, 26 April 2009 (UTC) Stan

Infobox picture
A discussion about the picture in the infobox in this article is on the way on my talkpage. You are free to join in! ! Let me know if you insist on moving the discussion to another place on Wikipedia, I’m open for that. —  Mariah-Yulia  • Talk to me!  10:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * On the basis of this discussion I changed the picture today I hope we are all happy with! —  Mariah-Yulia  • Talk to me!  21:43, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Very much so. Excellent job!Faustian (talk) 13:41, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Lvivske removed the picture today claiming "People who are Jews are never Ukrainian". I personally belief this is racist bullocks (that has lead to Auswitzch) so I reinstalled the picture. Besides being of Ukrainian ancestry does not mean you have to have 100% Ukrainian genes. —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  18:32, 1 October 2011 (UTC)


 * For the record, I never said "People who are Jews are never Ukrainian", or anything even remotely close to that. The quote is entirely made up by Yulia Romero. Just wanted to make note of this in case anyone else stumbles on here and reads that, as it would obviously reflect poorly on me.--Львівське (talk) 21:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * People from Ukraine are Ukrainian. Whether they and their ancestors are or were Jews, Christians, Moslems, or Pagans does not make them any less Ukrainian.
 * In many countries making racist remarks is illegal. It may even be illegal to tolerate racist remarks.--Toddy1 (talk) 08:06, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * So should Jewish refugees from Germany be classified as "German Americans?" Are white Afrikaners from Zululand Zulus? Are Russian emigrants from Tashkent Uzbeks? Is Baseyev a Russian? It is wrong and inapropriate to say that Jews from Ukraine are never Ukrainian, but being from the territory of Ukraine does not make one automatically Ukrainian.  This article is about people who in some way self-identify as Ukrainians. If someone finds a reference where Kunis identifies as a Ukrainian she should be classified as such regardless of her ethnic or religious background. However if there is no proof of that, she shouldn't be included.Faustian (talk) 13:33, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Is she identifying herself as a person of Ukrainian background in this interview? —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  13:44, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * She says she is from Ukraine, not that she is Ukrainian. There are people from Tashkent who are ethnic Russians who have never been to Russia. Does that make Uzbeks?Faustian (talk) 13:49, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * From the reference provided by Toddy1 as "proof" that Kunis is Ukrainian: "Наприкінці березня Дарен Аранофскі приїжджав до Києва. Презентував бойовик ”Рестлер” із Міккі Рурком у головній ролі. Тут дізнався про українське походження Міли: — Вона всім каже, що народилася в Росії. Говорить, що там не люблять євреїв. Тому вони й виїхали в Америку.  Говорила, що її бабусю й дідуся вбили, а батьки вижили, бо приховували своє єврейське коріння." Translation: At the end of March Darren Aranovsky came to Kyiv. He presented the fighting movie "Wrestler" with Mickey Rourke in the main role.  Here he described Mila's Ukrainian roots - "she tells everyone that she was born in Russia. She says that they dislike Jews there, and that's why they came to America. She said, that they killed her grandmother and grandfather, but her parents survived because they hid their Jewish roots." I don't necessarily think that the entire picture ought to be removed because one person in it is not Ukrainian-American while everyone else is.  However, it doesn't really look like Mila Kunis is Ukrainian. She certainly doesn't identify herself as such.Faustian (talk) 13:46, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * No trace of her claiming Ukrainian ancestry here:. Tee comments are funny - Ukrainian nationalists hoping this beautiful actress will "admit" that she's Ukrainian. Here is Kunis speaking : "Well I was in Russia. I wasn`t allowed to be religious. My whole family was in the holocaust. My grandparents passed and not many survived. After the holocaust in Russia you were not allowed to be religious. So my parents raised me to know I was Jewish. You know who you are inside. You don`t need to tell the whole world. You believe what you believe and that`s what`s important. And that`s how I was raised. My family was like `you are Jewish in your blood`. We can celebrate Yom Kippur and Hannukah but not by the book. We do it to our own extent. Because being in Russia...Bar Mitzvahs weren`t held. When I was in school you would still see anti-Semitic signs. One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade. And she came home one day crying. Her mother asked why she was crying and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika. Now this is a country that obviously does not want you. So my parents raised me Jewish as much as they could and came to America." Elsewhere she says "I grew up in the Ukraine..." Anyways, no evidence of any Ukrainain self-identification other than strictly geographical, and even that is weak (she doesn't seem to differentiate Ukraine from Russia).Faustian (talk) 14:02, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I am retracting myself from this discussion. I would advice all to see current citizens of Ukraine solely as Ukrainians to avoid racial tensions. Cause those never seem to lead to anything good. Would the people who want to remove the picture be so good to make a new one? You just need Microsoft paint and some patience... Nick Adams (actor) or Juliya Chernetsky could replace Kunis. —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  15:23, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, Toddy1's link for Keith Tkachuk is incorrect. UKR Weekly is an (online newspaper?). In my experience with it, the sports writers just partake in original research and say whoever has a Ukrainian-sounding surname, is Ukrainian. I don't consider them a credible source at all for these kinds of matters. (if it was a primary source, or mention of something direct in a player's family, sure, but calling an American "Ukrainian" with no supporting evidence or statements is the usual, unreliable MO for this mag)--Львівське (talk) 21:29, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Regarding the removal of Kunis and Tkachuk, we don't know for sure if they are ethnically, or racially, Ukrainian. Neither identify as Ukrainians, neither have reliably confirmed Ukrainian roots.


 * Mila:
 * Per Yulia's comments on my talk page, referring to past talk page discussions about Mila on her own BLP, no source exists proving she is ethnically Ukrainian. We do know she emigrated from the Soviet Union, and was born in the Ukrainian SSR. We do know she is Jewish, and I have personally heard her self-identify as Russian on television. We cannot assume that because she was born in what is now Ukraine, that she now has Ukrainian roots. For all we know, she's 100% Jewish, or Russian-Jewish, or her parents or grandparents moved to Bukovina from somewhere else in the USSR, or she has Romanian roots. Whatever! We simply do not know, and thus, cannot include her as a postergirl for Ukrainian Americans.


 * Keith:
 * source
 * "..asked about the derivation of his last name, Tkachuk replies, "It's Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, one of those"...his mother, in fact, is Irish"
 * Tkachuk clearly knows its east slavic, but is unsure of a specific ethnic origin. I know of one other hockey player with the same surname who is confirmed Ukrainian, and another who is confirmed Polish. We cannot assume. We can confirm that he is not a member of the Ukrainian diaspora, however; he doesn't even know if he has a Ukrainian surname.


 * It is very easy for one to say any person of East Slavic descent is Ukrainian if you connect the dots back to Kyivan Rus', but that's a violation WP:OR in its most basic sense. -Львівське (talk) 16:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Mila Kunis is not the only Jew in that collage, for what it's worth. 213.109.230.96 (talk) 07:41, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Nominations for new picture
I would like to nominate Ruslan Fedotenko and Wayne Gretzky as possible additions to a revised infobox picture.--Львівське (говорити) 00:13, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

One can't source by webpage alone.
A good book source: The Ukrainian Americans: Roots and Aspirations, 1884-1954. (The hardcover version has more photographs than the paperback). Jwkozak91 (talk) 21:43, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Ukrainian Institute of America
Since the Harry F. Sinclair House is owned by the Ukrainian Institute of America, it would be very informative if an article could be created about the Institute.


 * Ukrainian Institute of America is the first source to consider. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:42, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * NYC Arts - Ukrainian cultural events--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Self-identification vs. descent
Which do we go by? Like, if someone is on the books as having Ukrainian parentage, but they self-identify as like, Polish (for example), do they still count? I mean, they wouldn't be diaspora, but their parents would...so...--Львівське (talk) 21:43, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think that this article is simply about people who happen to have Ukrainian genes. However a parent is a close relative so they should count (i.e., it is notable that someone is the son or daughter of a Ukrainian even if they personally do not care). But merely having a Ukrainian-sounding name with no personal knowledge of Ukrainian roots or having been born in a geographic territory that is now Ukraine while identifying as a Jew or a Pole or whatever and not as a Ukrainian does not make a person an appropriate subject for this article about Ukrainian-Americans.Faustian (talk) 02:26, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, so generally, "if they have documented Ukrainian roots, they count"? The example I was using was Wayne Gretzky, who's father is Ukrainian-Canadian, but Wayne's on record for Polish for whatever reason.--Львівське (talk) 03:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I would say, yeah, if there is a reliable source saying that Gretsky's father was a Ukrainian-Canadian then he should be mentioned. Wayne's own self-identification should also be mentioned.Faustian (talk) 13:34, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Is Wikipedia supposed to be objective? If my grandparents were born in France and Ireland, and I claim to be Polish, which am I? I think it should be objective; I should not be classified as Polish. Nimishillen (talk) 14:23, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Image
I created an image of famous Ukrainian Americans. It includes: Martin Cooper, Jane Lubchenco, Edward Dmytryk, Paula Dobriansky, Stephen Timoshenko, Mike Ditka. Hope everyone are pleased with the selections! Danton&#39;s Jacobin (talk) 08:44, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yep; thanks. —  Yulia Romero  • Talk to me!  20:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Category:American sportspeople of Ukrainian descent
Liz Read! Talk! 02:54, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Inappropriate people
There are several Jewish people whose ancestors were from the territory that is Ukraine but who were no more Ukrainians than was Leon Trotsky. Albert Camus isn't classified as an Algerian writer; Rudyard Kipling isn't considered an Indian; Mikhail Bulgakov isn't a Ukrainian; how are Steven Spielberg or Barbara Streisand Ukrainians? Same with Igor Sikorsky, who was Polish-Russian, form a Russian-nationalist family who opposed Ukrainians. Faustian (talk) 16:15, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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Addition of people
Can people be considered Ukranian-Americans if their ancestors were from the current area of Ukraine? For example, Abraham Maslow's ancestor came from Kiev,"Russia" (at the time) and Terry Sawchuck's came from Galicia "Austria-Hungary". This is according to Wikipedia's articles on these guys. I think they could be classified as Ukranian. Nimishillen (talk) 14:38, 13 January 2023 (UTC)