Spoken like a patriot.
By the same token, if organ transplanters were
Ukrainians first and organ transplanters second, we'd have some wild
debates in the surgical room too.
Are we
scholars first and then Ukrainians? I think not since if that were the
case, we would simply be members of our academic organizations rather than
this one. I propose that we are of Ukrainian heritage first then
scholars second and as such we should encourage objective debate but not fall
away from defending our point of view, our culture, our language and yes, in
fact our native country's multi-pluralistic cultures but not at the expense
of russophilic goading.
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Dr. Oleh Denysyk
Director, Analytics, Organ Transplantation/ Oncology
RLI Laboratories
