Ours in the world

Everybody knows what is Mate in Misiones

I have recently made a trip to Misiones in the northeastern Argentina, which is called Ukrainian. It is surrounded by Paraguay and Brazil to the northwest and is embraced by Parana — the second river in length ( with La-Plate) in South America and stands behind Amazone. Argentina is a large and immense country. All over the country people sing here, they support their national soccer team, they drink Mate, eat roasted meat, sausages like chorizos and marseillais’ — something you could see right in the streets or on the yards and terraces. Truly, in this careless world of non-stop 24 hours a day colorful dancing to guitar thousands and thousands of Ukrainians feel themselves at home. People are jolly here, everybody’s smiling; everybody’s dressed nice; everybody’s friendly and courteous. All of a sudden our driver in Buenos Aires — Eugene from Luhansk who has been living here for 10 years — says something, which went against our conviction and sounded like a bomb for us: “Don’t walk around and even one step with your camera here — it’s Latin America!”

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As kozaks and guzuls Canada subjugated

Як козаки з гуцулами Канаду підкоряли

They say when the Canadian indians saw European ships for the second time they decided to welcome the guests not by “welcome», but by “ca-na-da!», because they probably thought, those will not fire guns towards their lodges. “Canada” means in indian — “there is nothing here”. English people did not realize that french have already visited this place, and already named this land Canada.

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