Friend Says: “Everyone skilled enough or wealthy enough who can get out of ukrai

Friend Says: “Everyone skilled enough or wealthy enough who can get out of ukraine did.”

So everyone left is one generation away from the farm. Ukrainans call it the ‘village’, but it means ‘small farm’ in american terms.

They sort of make fun of ‘village people’ here the way we used to make fun of ‘bumpkins’. Although the education system here means that there really aren’t those kind of ‘bumpkins’ in the younger generations.

They are very simple people really. Too simple at times. Maybe that is why I like them. Although they lack courage and confidence for reasons I really dont understand, but people tell me is caused by the the tyranny of the classroom.

I grew up in a small town with simple people. It meant a lot of fist fighting. But aside from that, I still feel affection for ‘the little people’.