How! → You have lived in Canada for so many years and still do not speak Ukrainian!? to

Canadian Ukrainians of Soviet production have one small but noticeable feature: when communicating with Russians, they refuse to speak Russian and talk Ukrainian.
I had one time to be married to a representative of a small but very proud people. And here at some party, one Ukrainian lady, seeing that my wife is speaking Russian, took her “chicai”, “treat”, “naked”, “rich”. My wife listened attentively to her tirade and answered her in Osetia.