anti-Ukraine

Anti-Ukrainian sentiment, Ukrainophobia or anti-Ukrainianism is animosity towards Ukrainians, Ukrainian culture, Ukrainian language, Ukraine as a nation, or all of the above. Modern scholars define two types of anti-Ukrainian sentiment. One is based on discrimination of Ukrainians based on their ethnic or cultural origin, a typical kind of xenophobia and racism. Another one is based on the conceptual rejection of Ukrainians as an actual ethnic group with the Ukrainian culture and language being regarded as "unnatural" and "artificially formed"; at the turn of the 20th century, several Russian supremacist authors supported an assertion that Ukrainian identity and language had been created artificially in order to "undermine" Russia. This argument has been advocated by these such authors.