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It wasn&#8217;t until I was 16 that I did my own research and pieced together my grandmother&#8217;s sporadic references to &#8220;Carpathian Ruthenia&#8221; and childhood memories of &#8220;Russian Christmas,&#8221; and learned that my great-grandparents were not Slovaks, but Rusyns. I listed myself as Rusyn on the 2020 US census, and my younger brother did the same, no doubt the result of my propaganda of our Rusyn origins. While I am a proud Rusyn, I don&#8217;t consider myself a good Rusyn. I have an interest in Rusyn history and folk music, but I lack deep knowledge of Rusyn culture. Instead, I have become progressively Russified in language and culture. Initially, this was the result of my very mistaken belief that Rusyns are the westernmost branch of the Russian people, but it took on a logic of its own after I studied in Russia twice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paradoxically, my time in Russia both deepened the role that the Russian language and culture play in my daily life while also making me more aware of my distinct Rusyn heritage. I am now a more nuanced Russophile, and my maxim is that my language is Russian while my heritage is Rusyn. This is just who I am. Since last year, I have decided to learn more about the Rusyn world, and I would be lying if I said that the Rusyn Literature Society did not play a role in this journey.&nbsp; This is the first poem I have written, and it is special to me because it is an organic synthesis of my Rusyn and Russian-speaking identities. It is a tribute not just to the Rusyn people and our Carpathian homeland, but also to Russia&#8217;s very small but officially recognized Rusyn population (225 per 2010 All-Russian Population Census). It is a personal honor to see my work translated into the Rusyn language, which I wish to learn myself one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Nicholas Rackers that was written as a tribute to our homeland and the Rusyn diaspora in Russia.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":27,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u041c\u044b \u043a\u0430\u0440\u043f\u0430\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0438\u043d\u044b - We Are Carpathian Rusyns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A poem by Nicholas Rackers that was written as a tribute to our homeland and the Rusyn diaspora in Russia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rusynsociety.com\/rsk\/2022\/02\/09\/we-are-carpathian-rusyns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u041c\u044b \u043a\u0430\u0440\u043f\u0430\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0438\u043d\u044b - We Are Carpathian Rusyns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A poem by Nicholas Rackers that was written as a tribute to our homeland and the Rusyn diaspora in Russia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rusynsociety.com\/rsk\/2022\/02\/09\/we-are-carpathian-rusyns\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Society for Rusyn Evolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rusynsociety\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-09T16:59:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-03T18:05:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rusynsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Navy-Blue-American-Flag-Memorial-Day-Facebook-Cover-3.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"924\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicholas M. 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