Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Ukrainians
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment (Ukrainian: Протиукраїнські настрої, romanized: Protyukrayinski nastroyi), Ukrainophobia (Ukrainian: Українофобія, romanized: Ukrayinofobiya), or anti-Ukrainianism (Ukrainian: Протиукраїнізм, romanized: Protyukrayinizm) is animosity towards Ukrainians, Ukrainian culture, the Ukrainian language, Ukraine as a nation, or all of the above.
Modern scholars divide anti-Ukrainian sentiment into two types. One type consists of discrimination against Ukrainians based on their ethnic or cultural origin, typical forms of xenophobia, racism, and broader anti-Slavic sentiment. Another type consists of the conceptual rejection of Ukrainians as an actual ethnic group and the rejection of the Ukrainian culture and language, based on the belief that they are unnatural because they were artificially formed; at the turn of the 20th century, several Russian nationalist authors asserted that the Ukrainian identity and language had both been artificially created in order to undermine Russia. Since then, this argument has also been made by other Russian nationalist authors.
Ukrainophobic stereotypes
Within Russian nationalist narratives and propaganda, Ukrainophobic stereotypes range from mockery to ascribing negative traits to the whole Ukrainian nation, and people of Ukrainian descent include:
Ukrainians eat lots of salo.
Ukrainians are greedy.
Ukrainians are sly and cunning.
Ukrainians are dishonest.
Ukrainians are not educated and have no culture.
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