🇺🇦 5 Fun Facts about Ukraine

How does the "pumpkin" rejection work? Who and how much pays for higher education? What will you have to do while visiting Ukrainians? Why do we need to know the names of teachers' fathers? What can Ukrainian banks do?
All these questions are answered in the video. If you are interested in learning more about life in Ukraine, you will like it. Only the Ukrainians themselves know about all this.

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00:00 №1 rejection and pumpkin
01:09 №2 cheap higher education in Ukraine
02:55 №3 food at parties
05:20 №4 we all know the names of teachers' dads
07:08 №5 banks blessed by the technical god

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[brambillafumagalli]

It's a pity if you receive a pumpkin, on the other hand you can bake a delicious pumpkin pie. 😋

[susanwilson]

My 34 year old son wants to go to Ukraine after the war and help rebuild. We are loving these Ukraine facts you are sharing! We live in Canada and, although our cultures are very similar, it seems many things are better in Ukraine.

[oksanailyenko]

I loved the patronus joke 😁

University footage made me nostalgic 🥲

[bc-guy]

Hello Masha, What a treat to experience your energy and passion for all-things-Ukraine! New viewer here; I just stumbled upon your video. You have such a wonderful spirit and I love your style! I'm Canadian (we had the biggest diaspora of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine until the mass exodus when the madness started) and I'm Italian decent - so I KNOW what you mean about food, and Grandma's!! I think that was my favourite. I'm going to go through your library now - Going to start at your earlier episodes and catch up.

I know you are all going through SO MUCH right now. I won't wish you a Merry Christmas - that was in December - right? This is The Epiphany weekend in North American calendar. So enjoy the New Year and know that many of us are thinking of you - all around the world.

Stay Strong. Slava Ukraini. Heroyam Slava! CRIMEA IS UKRAINE!!

[stanistelb]

Thank you Masha for sharing these interesting facts about Ukraine 🙂
I'm really glad that you're doing the Youtube videos again.

On a topic of eating at grandma's house.... There is this Chuck Norris joke about one of his super powers:
"Chuch Norris managad to convince his grandma that he is not hungry" 🙂

[SIGINTChris]

Proud to be your 500th subscriber! I just left the Ukraine after spending several months with the Red Cross (I’m a former U.S Army Medic, and volunteered for the Red Cross shortly after the invasion began) hope to return soon, stay safe, my friend. - Christian.

[concretecanuckwall]

So the smart man and his family will make the proposal when pumpkin season is over 🤣🥰😂😍

[iriswwad]

I like your babushka's. They remind me if my aunt, who was like s second mother to me. She would always feed people (and stray cats!). Preparing food was a big part of her life. I miss her. 😢

[Alan-twu]

I noticed politicians being called with this middle name too, not just in Ukraine. One in particular whom I won't mention his name.

[HoboHabilis]

I can’t wait to say, “He got the pumpkin”.
Very polite.

[oldwot]

What happens to the pumpkin of rejection? Do you keep it for the next guy? Or does the poor rejected boy have to take the pumpkin home and make a pumpkin pie of sorrow? What if you've given away (or eaten) your last pumpkin? 😀

[oldwot]

Has foreign minister Kuleba sent a pumpkin to Russian FM Lavrov?
Perhaps related, look for "pumpkin chunkin" videos - catapults, air cannons, and other ways to deliver your message with more feeling.

[richardhoare]

So, the real question is... how many pumpkins have you given out?!? That has to be my favourite fact, but the banking one is pretty cool.

This was a really interesting video! Thank you for sharing the facts with us.

Your editing and production skills are improving all the time. It's really impressive!

[tashuntka]

You're so awesome...really ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[GatewoodAdventures]

Thanks for the great video. Best wishes

[Leathurkatt]

In Celtic (especially Irish) and Turtle Island Nations (American Indian) cultures, food given to guests is a big thing as well. If you leave their home hungry, it's your own fault. 😁 So since I grew up with a similar tradition (I'm Irish, Scottish, and Cheyenne by blood), this is an easy one to understand and get behind.

The pumpkin=refusal one, however, that's an odd one, but certainly a graceful way to refuse. In the US, pumpkins are turned into pies or bread or muffins so giving a pumpkin to someone is more about "Hey, let's make something yummy and awesome to eat!" than anything else.

[royjones]

I had never heard of the give a pumpkin, entertaining portrayal of the tradition

[aarhusnord]

Very interesting compilation of facts, Masha. Now I have found out again, why I eat pumpkin three times a week, very traumatizing. Well, we have a similar expression in Danish, "at give en kurv", literally "to give a basket". So maybe I should look for a bride in Ukraine, too, so I could have pumpkins in some of all my baskets. In Denmark, education is also free, and you get paid for studying, not a small sum, but quite a fine amount. Furthermore, you can get cheap loans (studielån), as well as take a part time job. The catch is of course, that costs of living are high, too, especially in major cities, so studying doesn't make you rich, either. Unless you sleep on a bench or under a bridge, at the same time. Some jobs, where there is practical training included, during education, will also give you a wage. For example, if these professionals are much needed. It could be social and health assistents or prisonguards, for example. Food - so are there also many obese people around, if you must eat all the time? The holodomor sounds like a good reason for that practice. Patronymic names - we have a bit of the same in some Danish names, ending with -sen, which comes from "søn" = son. Meaning that "Jensen" is "Jens' son" or "Andersen" is "Anders' son". These names, however, are so common so they are not connected to the actual names of fathers anylonger. And females are not included, only the sons of these men (maybe only men were taken seriously when those names were invented). In Icelandic, some names end in "-dottir", meaning "the daughter of". So patronymic, but also for use by the daughters. And finally, payment systems: Denmark was at the forefront back in 1984, when the first electronic debit card, the Dankort, was issued. Almost all adult Danes has a Dankort, normally you can get one at 18 years, so I had my first Dankort around 1989-90. For many years, they had a photo on the backside, which foreigners found it hard to understand existed. Often they are combined with a VISA-card, so you have two cards in one. In Ireland, in 1993, I almost got into a fight with a shopowner, who thought I had made my own plasticcard, simply because he had never seen one with a photo on. Terminals are everywhere and you can also use your Dankort online. With smartphones came MobilePay, where you can pay and transfer money within seconds via a cellphone number, almost like a text message. There are also those, who use ApplePay. We do have a number of virtual banks that use app solutions. Between banks, though, transferring money normally takes 2-3 banking days.

[petergustafsson]

Regarding #4: In Sweden, we had patronymics until fairly recently, and on Iceland, they still use them - but without family names. Think Volodymyr Olekandrorvich, without the Zelenskyy bit. They also have, for some people, matronymics - based on mother´s given name. Think Volodymyr Rymmnovich, or Kyrylo Olenovich.

[DavidHalun]

According to my family history my Great-Grandfather (from Schyrets), a widower with my then young Grandfather went to friends to see if they knew of women of marrying age. The story goes that you would be invited for tea and meet the young lady. If after meeting the young lady the gentleman didn't like the girl, he would refuse the tea, as my Great-Grandfather did to the first girl he was introduced to.