Ukrainian Argentines: Difference between revisions

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* [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]

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* [[Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church|Ukrainian Catholicism]]

* [[Ukrainian Orthodoxy]]

* [[Judaism]]

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* [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian people]]

* [[Ukrainian Brazilians]]

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|access-date=2007-08-05|work=Ucrania.com|language=es |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050207175738/http://ucrania.com/article_read.asp?id=69 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2005-02-07}}</ref> Currently, the main concentrations of Ukrainians in Argentina are in the [[Greater Buenos Aires|Greater]] [[Buenos Aires]] area, with at least 100,000 people of Ukrainian descent,<ref name="Wasylyk"/> the province of [[Misiones Province|Misiones]] (the historical heartland of Ukrainian immigration to Argentina), with at least 55,000 Ukrainians, and the province of [[Chaco Province|Chaco]] with at least 30,000 Ukrainians.<ref name="Wasylyk">Wasylyk, Mykola (1994). ''Ukrainians in Argentina'' (Chapter), in ''Ukraine and Ukrainians Throughout the World'', edited by Ann Lencyk Pawliczko, University of Toronto Press: Toronto, pp. 420-443</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ualogos.kiev.ua/text.html?id=83&number=55&category=10 |title=Argentine-Ukrainians or Ukrainian-Argentines: about two homelands |access-date=March 22, 2007 |last=Kostiantynova |first=Svitlana |date=January 25, 2007 |work=Instytut Ukrainoznavstva |language=uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007204554/http://www.ualogos.kiev.ua/text.html?id=83&number=55&category=10 |archive-date=October 7, 2008 }}</ref> In [[Misiones Province]] Ukrainians constitute approximately 9% of the province's total population.<ref name="Wasylyk"/> In comparison to Ukrainians in North America, the Ukrainian community in Argentina (as well as in [[Ukrainians of Brazil|Brazil]]) tends to be more descended from earlier waves of immigration, is poorer, more rural, has less organizational strength, and is more focused on the Church as the center of cultural identity.<ref>Subtelny, Orest. (1988). ''Ukraine: a History.'' University of Toronto Press: Toronto. pg. 566 {{ISBN|0-8020-5808-6}}</ref> Most Ukrainian Argentines do not speak the Ukrainian language and have switched to Spanish, although they continue to maintain their ethnic identity.<ref>[http://www.homin.ca/news_view.php?category=diaspora&news=4092&lang=ua Ukrainian Echo]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} From the Life of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Misiones. Ihor Vasylyk. November 6, 2008. (in Ukrainian)</ref>

 

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The first Protestant Ukrainians were Baptists who emigrated to Argentina from Volyn in the 1920s. During the period when there was no Ukrainian Church in Argentina, many Ukrainians became accustomed to not being involved in any Church and did not return to their ancestral religion when the parishes were established.