aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- Re: [aaus-list] pro malorosa tabachnyka

["Stephen Velychenko" <velychen@chass.utoronto.ca>]

We all know who they are and have a number of explanations for their
behaviour. What we don't know is how to rid the country of the old ones
and change the milieu so they are not produced anymore.
 We must always remember that Communists/Regions/ chornosotnyky-vitrenky
can at best get only 30-35% of all votes when they rig elections. Which
means that if Ukraine ever gets elections where all can vote without
intimidation and black-ops, these post imperial left-over leaders could
not get more than 20-25% tops.






> There is a neurobiological component to the persistent "maloros"
> phenomenon, which comes from being raised in a Soviet and post-Soviet
> "maloros" milieu. Thoughts, feelings, beliefs and actions are
> controlled by the brain, and early sensory input permanently shapes
> brain function via  neurobiological programming.
>
> Early neurobiological imprinting results in an internal preference for
>  familiar environments that fit in with formative experiences,  and
> indifference, acceptance, tolerance or aversion to environments that
> do not fit in with the formative experiences. The net effect could
> well be cultural dissonance if, later in life, the mechanisms of
> neuroplasticity cannot cope with an external environment that differs
> from that of the formative years. For the most part, such people will
> remain "malorosy."
>
> To paraphrase St. Ignatius of Loyola, "Give me a brain that's less
> than 7 years old, and it's mine for life."
>
> RB Worobec
>
> On 11/2/06, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj <oleh.ilnytzkyj@ualberta.ca> wrote:
>> Dziuba makes a lot of good points, of course. But isn't it high time
>> that
>> idiots like Tabachnyk be simply driven out of politics? He doesn't
>> deserve
>> an answer like Dziuba's. This is beyond the pale.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/1/06 6:52 AM, "Stephen Velychenko" <velychen@chass.utoronto.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Dzuiba's reply to Tabachnyk.
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.vox.com.ua/data/publ/2006/10/30/sovist-natsii-rozshukuye-sovist-tab
>> > achnyka.html
>> >
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Stephen Velychenko
CERES Associate;
Research Fellow,Chair of Ukrainian Studies
Munk Center
University of Toronto
Devonshire Place
Toronto M5S 3K7