At some point you realize the vast majority of English-language books on Rusyns are the same thing repeated in a variety of slightly different ways. Always the same milquetoast attitude, the same topic of being a stateless minority, the same drivel about what our ancestors were like. The same speeches, materials, and events on the same topic.
No second level of material at all that is easily accessible. To find anything worth something you've got to go back decades probably. Even then, the standards are not high.
It reminds me of a documentary on the Villages in Florida. Each year a new crop of boomers blow through the rest of their money to live out their remaining golden years. As someone dies another replaces them, learning the same basic things and doing the same activities until it is their turn.
Much of the whatever can be called the Rusyn diaspora economy revolves around a similar system with the same demographic. A shame I'm so repulsed by it, I could have actually begun to get support for my efforts in some meaningful way.
No second level of material at all that is easily accessible. To find anything worth something you've got to go back decades probably. Even then, the standards are not high.
It reminds me of a documentary on the Villages in Florida. Each year a new crop of boomers blow through the rest of their money to live out their remaining golden years. As someone dies another replaces them, learning the same basic things and doing the same activities until it is their turn.
Much of the whatever can be called the Rusyn diaspora economy revolves around a similar system with the same demographic. A shame I'm so repulsed by it, I could have actually begun to get support for my efforts in some meaningful way.