I've been surfing more web pages on the Ukraine, Crimea, Russia and such. Wikipedia breaks the paradigm of "encyclopedia" by having such up-to-the-minute reviews, with revisions in progress, narratives in the making. I've done my share of Wikipedia contributing / editing. Stressful sometimes.
Multnomah Meeting seems to be gearing up to form a study group or something, but really most of our regional savvy is in Bridge City, with fluent Russian speakers, at least one. I've been reflecting on my Lithuanian experience and thinking of Facebook pages to visit.
Nationalism in the sense of ethnicity, and nationalism in the sense of nation-states, have a very uneasy co-existence, with the former organic and natural, the latter forced and awkward. Our maps are nation-free (liberated from those dictates) at least in some of our classrooms.
I'll check for Gorby's opinions shortly, when I have some time. Haircut next. Our "NATO professor" needs to look more clean cut.
