VYSHYVANKA IS OUR GENETIC CODE
People seldom appreciate what they have until it's not too late. This often happens with our relatives. In modern life conditions we don't pay enough attention to our parents and grandparents and we realize our mistakes only after they had passed away. Only then we really regret not having spent more time with them.
Same thing with national clothes.
Various liberals are often complain about the Ukrainian national clothes, they claim that vyshyvanka it's banal and old-fashioned, something that is not a trend. Nothing of the kind! Traditions are always above all fashion trends!
Can you find at least one European country except Ukraine (and Scotland), which people are still appreciate their ethnic clothes. Almost everyone wears vyshyvanka, you can see it even in advertising. Vyshyvankas are literally everywhere! We dress it on national holidays and weddings, there is even a feast of vyshyvanka. Most part of Ukrainians abroad have the Ukrainian embroidery in a wardrobe.
Popularity of ethnic embroidered shirts is one of the first things that almost all foreign nationalists point out when they visit Ukraine (along with a small number of african and asian migrants in the streets).
First they are very surprised, and it's not because foreign nationalists also believe that national clothes as something banal, but because they aren't used to see such things in their countries their. All because most part of European folks unfortunately have lost connection with their native culture. For example, traditional English ethnic garments has largely disappeared in their modern life. It can be found only in museums.
They had not appreciated what they had and it's gone. And now it's almost impossible to renew it in terms of globalization. Indeed, a white European country, which people have a nationwide folk symbol that unites all generations - the dead, the living and the unborn yet. An element of the national culture recognized as such by Ukrainians one thousand years ago and now.
Vyshyvanka is an eternal symbol and value. Vyshyvanka is our way to resist globalism. Vyshyvanka is a mental bridge from great Ukrainian past to great Ukrainian future! Vyshyvanka is our genetic code!
First they are very surprised, and it's not because foreign nationalists also believe that national clothes as something banal, but because they aren't used to see such things in their countries their. All because most part of European folks unfortunately have lost connection with their native culture. For example, traditional English ethnic garments has largely disappeared in their modern life. It can be found only in museums.
They had not appreciated what they had and it's gone. And now it's almost impossible to renew it in terms of globalization. Indeed, a white European country, which people have a nationwide folk symbol that unites all generations - the dead, the living and the unborn yet. An element of the national culture recognized as such by Ukrainians one thousand years ago and now.
Vyshyvanka is an eternal symbol and value. Vyshyvanka is our way to resist globalism. Vyshyvanka is a mental bridge from great Ukrainian past to great Ukrainian future! Vyshyvanka is our genetic code!
Source: Zentropa Ukraine
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