Text: Svitlana Prokopchuk
Switzerland is money, and Ukraine is mud huts?
Every country has its own myths. In Switzerland, it’s chocolate, watches, and wealth. And what clichés are imposed on Ukraine?
Svitlana Prokopchuk, media coordinator of the Ukraine Switzerland Bern Association, has collected the most common ones for a new column in Journal B:
▪️ “Ukraine is Russia”
▪️ “Ukrainians are all peasants”
▪️ “All poor”
▪️ “Ukrainian women are only for marriage”
These stereotypes are not only offensive, but also false. Ukraine is modernity, education, culture, a language that has survived despite 170 bans. And women who win Fields Medals, not just hearts.
Read the full article here https://journal-b.ch/artikel/geld-huetten-und-heiratsmythen-wenn-klischees-laender-formen/
Illustration by David Fürst
