Did you notice how many English words entered to Ukrainian during the last years?The words «Sponsor, «Consensus», «Mentality» became frequently used in Ukrainian vocabulary.

Someone considers the «Mentality as the total of property of certain nation, others consider as the special determination of signs of nation which shows in periods of historical development. Certainly, every nation has own signs. During the centuries, they aren’t specially changed, as well as the mentality is not changeable.

The greatest sign of Ukrainian mentality development in a history of Ukraine is a period of Zaporizhian Sich, Cossacks, social spirit which is known in a world culture as Cossacks – Christian republic. We delight with heroism of Cossacks, but we can’t forget that Cossacks was peculiar not only heroism such as they are people, which had to live

in time of war

I will tell you about the ceremonies of New Year and Christmas in Ukraine in this publication.

Special attention was paid to the supper at Christmas night, such as rich supper, the wide name of dishes accompanied to sufficiency and wealth of Ukrainian family. Festive supper was implied preparation of 12 dishes, 9 or 7 dishes, where Ukrainian carousing was the main. As the supper began from the peasant ceremonies (reading of prayer) but saved the feature of pagan culture of «fort