Speaking of modern Ukrainian customs and traditions, it is necessary to emphasize that the Ukrainians are proud of their culture popular colors. They love good food and drink and have a taste for life.

Most of Ukraine's middle class and lower class urban families live in flats in multistory buildings, people and not just rich can afford to build houses either inside or outside the city.

Ukrainians have a deep love for the land. Many families have homes small country, called "dacha". They can grow almost anything in their gardens, orchards and farms. Some people grow food only for personal consumption. They spend their time doing canned vegetable and fruit compote varied during the summer to make through the long cold winters. They always have something in their homes to serve customers.

A modern average Ukrainian family has two parents, and usually one or two children. At the same time, while there is a growing number of single parent families, usually headed by a woman raising a child. As in many other countries, there is plenty of unmarried girls living together and share a home. Raising a child in Ukraine is very expensive now, that's why many couples decided to have only one child, or even no children. Children tend to live with parents not long after finishing school. Sometimes children have to rely on their parents for financial issues as the unemployment rate among youth is very high. A newly married couple often live with one parent because they have no money to buy or rent a house or apartment itself. Often one or both grandparents live with their children and help care for children. Grandparents play a large role in the upbringing of children in Ukraine.

In families of the people tend to be larger, and the whole family works on the farm (or a piece of land they have) together. Most parents who live in the country want their children to acquire a higher education therefore sent to study in big cities. After 5 years of schooling, children become accustomed to the shape of the city of life and rarely home.

In their struggle for survival of people become less dependent on each other within families. But even the parents think it's important to teach your children the skills daily and basic values of life. Resent the result of a nationwide study showed that the most important values parents want to teach their children honesty, common sense, determination, responsibility, good manners and obedience to parents. The adults that children should be educated to expect will struggle to succeed.

Like most others, the Ukrainians as holidays and parties. In general, try to cook many tasty dishes and invite a bunch of friends and family to their seats. Another thing Ukrainians like to do is talk (as they walk in the cafes and restaurants or at home for a cup of tea or coffee or other drinks). The conversation tends to be light, relaxing, fun and sometimes philosophical. Many Ukrainians picnics in the woods or somewhere in the water at almost any time of year. Picnics often involve pinchito or grilled meat, homemade salads, and sometimes alcohol. Ukrainians love to sit around fires in night and snacks, drinks, and sing songs on a guitar.

Popular outdoor sports in Ukraine are soccer, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, and hiking (walking in the forest). Fitness clubs have appeared all over the place. Yoga and martial arts are very popular. Mountaineering and rock climbing clubs can be found. Diving, sailing, golf and even recently have become available. Increasingly popular in Ukraine are all sorts of extreme sports (bungee jumping, rafting, mountain biking, caving, etc.) and, more generally, all forms of active tourism (hiking, biking, canoeing, horseback riding, skiing, etc.).

Not all the world to do the things we've described above. Some Ukrainian culture will find it incomprehensible and intolerable, while others' behavior and attitudes seem rational and consistent with his own.

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