I recall asking a group of monastic women at Bodbe monastery what made them choose their current lives, and not one of them replied with an answer about ethnicity. Not all of them were Georgian.
"It is beyond me what the ethnicity of a parish has to do with Christ."
Well, unless you're Greek, your probably right. Christ was a Greek boy, you know. My great grandmother told my mother and she told me! :)
I like the sound of the Slavonic liturgy. The English translation has sacrificed much of it's beauty. I also like being able to converse with folks of a similar background. Part of the parish community is fellowship and that is something which ethnic parishes provide, I strongly disagree with stripping ethnicity and having an english version. It drives people away.
I was in fact quite unhappy that when our OCA priest left who could speak Russian the OCA is replacing him with someone who cannot. Russian immigrants are much more comfortable speaking with the priest in Russian, and it alienates them, who founded and have been the back bone of the parish.