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THE FUTURE OF THE UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY “TEEN” COMMANDMENTS 1. Don’t let your parents down, they brought you up. 2. Choose your companions with care, you become what they are. 3. Be master of your habits or they will master you. 4. Treasure your time, don’t spend it, invest it. 5. Stand for something or you'll fall for anything. 6. Select only a date who would make a good mate. 7. See what you can do for others; not what they can do for you. 8. Guard your thoughts; what you think you are. 9. Think — let your conscience be your guide. 10. Remember — you were placed on this Earth for a reason. Do something to help another human being. • Is Knowledge of Ukrainian language crucial to the Ukrainian cause? • What is the Ukrainian cause? • What role, or function, does the Ukrainian community serve? • What future does it have in this country? • Will our youth take an active role in our community life, or will they fade away? This questions, among others, need to be examined if we want to influence the future course of our com munities. One way to raise the level of consciousness is to create opportunities where we can come together to share ideas, and understand one another’s point of view. Such an opportunity had been created once before at the Ukrainian Women’s Conference held at Soyuzivka in 1982. The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA), as an active member of the Ukrainian Com munity, wants to create another such opportunity for the exchange of thoughts and concerns about the future of the Ukrainian community. Therefore, it is organizing a panel/workshop, to be held during its convention, in May, to address these issues. Three hours have been scheduled for this session. The UNWLA cordially.invites and encourages the public, especially our youth, to par ticipate and express their views. The XX Convention of the UNWLA will be held this year at the Grant Hyatt Hotel in New York from May 26th through May 28th. The panel, entitled “The Future of the Ukrainian Community” is scheduled for Sunday, May 27th. At the request of the Executive Branch of the UNWLA, a committee has been formed to plan this panel. It consists of members and non-members of the UNWLA. The committee is chaired by Nadia Nynka, past president of Branch 4, who had also chaired the pro gram subcommittee for the Women’s Conference held at Soyuzivka in 1982. Members of the planning committee are: Oka Hrycak, Branch 4, past member of the Women’s Conference program subcommittee; Oksana Bokalo, past president of Branch 4; Lesia Kachmar, member of Branch 4, a panel speaker at the XIX Convention of the UNWLA; Myroslawa Wanio, past president of Branch 18; and, Zenia Brozyna, a panelist at the Women’s Confer ence (Schools and Yoth Organizations). The planning committee is mailing quetionnaires to a cross-section of the Ukrainian community. Watch for it in the press as well. Its purpose is to gather information as to how people feel about their Ukrainian heritage, the role they play in the community, and what action is needed in the future. The results of the survey will be one of the things discussed during the panel. Please keep May 27th open, and plant to attend the panel discussion. In fact, plan to attend the entire con vention, because your input is vital to the health and growth of our community life. grate the organizations of women into the broader con text. Ukrainian women developed their unarticulated pragmatic feminism because they did not share the Western European middle class ideal of mothering and domesticity. Grounded in a rural society, the women had no identity problems. The realm of the private flow ed into that of the public, since the public was the read ily identifiable community and not the abstract state or political forces. The women realized the social function of motherhood, and quickly grasped the interconnection of the individual life with overall community concerns. They also seemed to grasp ideals of national solidarity and community toleration. In their practicality they a- voided theoretical analyses and even the label feminist. But as their participation in community affairs ex panded they were forced to confront the woman issue and the discrimination against women. They were thus forced into a defense of feminism, even if not into its articulation. But the education the women received, in turn, socialized them into the existing cultural values of the society and prevented them from analyzing what was original in the women’s experience. In other words, once the women became members of the community, many of them began thinking as the intelligentsia did. Hence, they failed to realize the true contributions of women. Women engaged in community action generally are uncomfortable with ideological constructs and ideologi cal rhetoric, or, conversely they accept it without realiz ing the differences between their practical, effective work and sloganeering. For the most part, they also refrain from using the term “feminism” to characterize their work, which they see, correctly, as being commun ity and not women-oriented. The study of Ukrainian women, concrete and detailed, permitted me to general ize the existence of what I call “pragmatic feminism” which has ramifications and usefulness outside the stud- y of the Ukrainian women themselves both in analysis of societies and the study of their history.
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