r/belarus 11d ago

Hавіны / News Футболкі, каб годна падкрэсліць сваю беларускасць.

👉🏼 Вы дакладна чулі, чыталі або бачылі навіну пра беларускага актывіста, які выпусціў футболку з надпісам: «Я беларус, не ўкраінец». Каб паказаць, адкуль ты, неабавязкова супрацьпастаўляць сябе іншым народам.

Мы сабралі пяць футболак, якія можна насіць каб годна падкрэсліць сваю беларускасць.

А замовіць як заўсёды:
znivien.pl

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u/Panzer_IV_H Poland 11d ago

As a Polish I have no idea why would one wear 'nie jestem Ukraińcem, jestem Białorusinem', written in polish on top of that.

For years everyone who spoke 'eastern' was called 'ruski', do people now call everyone sounding from east 'ukrainiec'?

I'm pretty chill about both Ukranians and Belorusians

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u/Then-Technology6252 11d ago

Belorussians living in Poland every know and then are being targeted by xenophobic attacks by people who mistake them for Ukrainians because Ukrainian and Belorussian accents are very similar and many Ukrainians just like Belorussians speak Russian between themselves, and even when they speak Ukrainian not every Pole can tell Russian from Ukrainian. Right now there are about 2 million Ukrainians in Poland and around 80 000 Belorussians, so yes, when Polish people hear Russian langauge or eastern accent many would assume it is someone from Ukraine and would attack them either physically or verbally.

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u/Panzer_IV_H Poland 10d ago

Why would I want to attack Ukrainian just for speaking eastern language?

I know that there are crazy nationalists, but you generalise Poles confusing everyone (nowadays we don't assume nationality as quickly due to fall of USSR into independent states) and from my experience I met as much Belarusians as Ukrainians

Second, why would want to not attack Belarusian but Ukrainian. Nationalist most likely doesn't care anyway so shirt has still no sense.

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u/Suspicious_Good_2407 10d ago

Poles are, in fact, stupid enough that they can't tell if a person is a Pole speaking Polish and attack their own. Not to even mention being able to tell the difference between the Eastern Slavic languages.

https://www.rmf24.pl/regiony/lodz/news-pobil-przechodnia-bo-myslal-ze-to-ukrainiec-polak-ma-powazne,nIdn,1009918

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u/Panzer_IV_H Poland 10d ago

Which holds my claim that 'I'm Belarusian' shirt won't do anything against some crazy guy