A Ukrainian woman wearing a traditional bridal crown

Jan 10, 2018 11:25 AM

dinosaurus01

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As a Ukrainian Canadian. +1.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

1800-flowers is stepping up their game.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And the first meal the newly wed wife will prepare for her husband shall be the traditional wedding hat spaghetti!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Full bush

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Soooo, she's single?

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Princess porcipine

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

She’s ecstatic

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Where I grew up in PA, women put on a hat/bonnet. Men would put a few dollars on the hat to dance with the new bride. The groomsmen are 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

tasked with keeping the groom away as long as possible. The result is the new family gets some seed money. This reminds me of that 2/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought it was Frida Kahlo from the thumbnail.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Frida Kahlo wasn't quite as pretty. Not quite.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wouldn't want to be near her. My eyes are useful.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

She reminds me a little bit of Natalie Portman.

8 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

You mean Keira Knightley?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought Mila Kunis, because, you know, Ukraine.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Wife her up

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You marry underaged to a guy twice your age and probably a drunk. But you get a flower hat which is nice!

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 6

That mole really ties her face together

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That’s amazing!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Her lack of smile is due to the 30+ lb piece on her head she’s prob trying to concentrate on not falling over

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

So... would it be considered cultural appropriation if I wanted this on my wedding day?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do people still wear these?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

@SW00PUP0NTHEM it’s me.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You've got better hair :)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks heavy.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

With how dominant US politics are in the public eye it's easy to forget that real diversity is more than skin-deep.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

That headdress is pretty sick. I want one

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"White people have no culture"

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 6

We have a salty sense of humor

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My people are cool but fucking crazy.... she looks like a thanksgiving display for a table.

8 years ago | Likes 151 Dislikes 12

She does. But Ukrainian girls can be so purdy

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I actually like it

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That’s a lot older than thanksgiving though.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It looks pretty good actually but it's just a photo. I bet that IRL it looks kitsch as fuck.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I would corn her copia if ya know what I mean.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Square hats for graduations.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Maybe thanksgiving table displays look like Ukrainian bridal crowns. Did you ever think of that? Huh?

8 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Maybe this is where the term "deflowered" comes from.

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

Nice try but I can recognize Princess Amidala of Naboo anywhere.

8 years ago | Likes 468 Dislikes 4

stole my line

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Great minds think alike but I have a time machine

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*Queen

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Fooled you, sucka! That's the DECOY! Amidala, always bamboozlin'.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Now we will discuss a new treaty, Viceroy

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Haha ha, that is her assistant.

8 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 1

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Holy frame rate Batman!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"You thought I was Natalie Portman but I am Keira Knightley. Bamboozled again."

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Me:"A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!" also me:"This is where the fun begins"

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Watch out.. white people honoring their culture causes butthurt in some people.

8 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 63

1st world needs to take shit over... but it's nice you take them up again when necessary to bait offense. I thi k most people love this :]

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 6

Uh... we see Scandinavian and French and other European cultures on here all the time. No one is ever offended by it.

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Take your bait out of here you heathen

8 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 4

..... except wasps and white people who white people themselves kiiindaaa cut themselves off from Ukraine due to geographical things and

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Get a life, please.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

8 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 5

Who gets offended about white people honouring their culture? Apart from the capitalistic/colonial bits and the bit about sports violence???

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 7

I like our castles and foodstuffs not so keen on the genocides the empire did.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I identify as offended and this cultures me

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 7

You offend as culture and this identifies me

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 4

Culture your identity as offensive.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

My identitties

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

jeesus, you only marry once there?

8 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 3

supposed to, but experience might differ

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Isn't that supposed to be everywhere?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You can divorce, but the parents from both families will hunt you down and throw you to the wolves because you've dishonored them.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

YOMO!

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

probably, not like in america where divorce is considered normal

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 6

Yeah, because nobody got divorced before America was founded. Might I present to you Henry VIII.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Divorce is absolutely normal in Ukraine

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Divorce is normal in any sane country. Only 70 year-old assholes care in my country, and they're dying fast.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 23

ayyyyyy

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Lol look at all of these people who think staying in a shitty marriage is better than divorce. Upvoted you my friend

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

I still ended up with negative points because people are stupid. People fall in and out of love, why stay in a shitty marriage?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sometimes the stars align perfectly for all the assholes to swarm imgur in unison.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And of course the traditional Smile as well

8 years ago | Likes 1040 Dislikes 11

You'd be mad too, the country has it rough af.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

She’s just got resting bitch face.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I’d have rbf too if I was trying to focus on balancing that much stuff on my head.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There’s probably a whole bunch of straws poking the back of her head.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Married to Ukrainian. Can contact confirm smile.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Fuck, this thing's heavier than it looks."

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why change a working thing?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

She's just seen her husband for the first time. He's 40 years older, and he's got a nasty backhand.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Go home Jakub, your services aren't required now.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Traditional rbf

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My family & I traveled to Ukraine in '03. My dad was fascinated by the flat smile. A different type of culture shock.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

where u from ?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Midwestern US.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

who or what make your family visit Ukraine ?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

We met and semi-adopted a foreign exchange student while she was at school here and she and her family took us around the countryside.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Well, it was fun while it lasted

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

What was it?

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Autodots. Roll out.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

true happiness resides deep within. it's a misconception of a superficial modern western culture that smiling equals happiness

8 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 26

No..not really..but please continue with your anti Western hate. Fight on Cringy Internet Warrior

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 5

8 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 1

While smiling doesn't guarantee happiness, nor its absence automatically proof of a lack of joy, smiling is one of the several facial 1

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

sure, I never said otherwise. I assumed that people would not fall into the trap of reverse causation here. looks like I was wrong...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Happiness leads to smiling and smiling can lead to happiness though. It would have been more accurate to explain that there are cultures 1

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Where smiling is not a norm, instead of trying to make smiling sound like it's a western thing. 2

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Expressions that transcends culture lines. It's a natural expression of happiness that everyone generally recognizes. 2

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Not to mention that it's presence in blind communities indicates it is a biological function, not a cultural one. Lack of smile is cultural.

8 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Yep, on the smiling frequency scale there's the cultural lack of smile, then genuine smiling, and then no cultural excessive smiling 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0