Are you connected to Ukrainian immigrants to the US in the past or present?
Hello Ukrainian friends!
American from Los Angeles here. I have been wondering if you all are connected to the Ukrainian diaspora in the US, or if you have family memory or cultural connections with immigrants from the past. I recently met a couple Ukrainians who are in Los Angeles on asylum, and it made me remember how many people of Ukrainian descent live in some other cities that I am familiar with, like Chicago. My sister lives in Chicago so I am there often and know it fairly well. A very large number of Eastern European immigrants arrived in Chicago in the last century, and when I am in residential neighborhoods in Chicago it is common to see flags of Eastern European countries hanging on people’s porches, a lot of them feel proud of their grandparents’ country of origin. The Chicago neighborhood Ukrainian Village still has Ukrainian cultural institutions but has become a very hip neighborhood for young people, and still seems to have some much older Ukrainian people who still live there, not many.
Do you have family members in your family history who immigrated to the US, either a hundred years ago or one year ago or any other time? Is there much current connection between Ukrainians in the US and in Ukraine?