Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Saturday, August 27, 2011

HUNGARIAN CITIZENSHIP OPEN TO THOSE HUNGARIANS WHO WERE LEFT LIVING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY AFTER 1920

"Citizenship "is a form of symbolic relationship - recognition that after 90 years of living without Hungary we maintain our identity, we value our mother tongue..."

Officially Romania has about 1.5 million ethnic Hungarians.

Southern Slovakia is home to roughly 500,000 ethnic Hungarians, about a tenth of the country's population.

More than 250,000 ethnic Hungarians also live in Serbia

Link to the BBC news article from January 2011 explaining the changes.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS SPECIAL ABOUT BEING HUNGARIAN or HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN?

We know that there are stereotypes of Hungarians and Hungarian-Americans.

But what do you think is special about us?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

SAINT STEPHEN'S BASILICA BUDAPEST HUNGARY OFFICIAL SITE

This is the official site...lots of slideshows!


(Click on the title of this post to get to the link!)

Monday, August 15, 2011

LATEST ZSA ZSA NEWS : SHE AND HER HUSBAND CELEBRATE 25th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

After 8 divorces, Zsa Zsa Gabor, married Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, and that marriage has lasted 25 years. The anniversary was August 14th. From her bed, 92 year old Zsa Zsa watched a star studded party in their honor. A month ago a huge billboard appeared on Sunset Boulevard that showed the couple on their wedding day. Some articles on the net mention that in December the couple will auction many of Zsa Zsa's dresses. Meanwhile their Bel Air house remains for sale. Linking to one of many articles, this one from the LA Times.


Monday, August 8, 2011

Friday, August 5, 2011

HELLO TO SERBIA and RUSSIA and ROMANIA and LATVIA

Recently readers from these countries stopped by to MAGYAR-AMERICAN.

And there were also people stopping by from IRAN, INDIA, and MALAYSIA, as well as the UK, AUSTRALIA, and GERMANY.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

WE HAVE THE ROSE BOWL PARADE - HUNGARY HAS THE CELEBRATION OF FLOWERS IN DEBRECEN : 100 YEAR HISTORY

IN THE UNITED STATES WE START OUT THE NEW YEAR WATCHING THE ROSE BOWL PARADE - floats covered with flowers or at least vegetable matter - imaginative and creative - and the sun is always shining because it's in Southern California - Pasadena.

In Hungary an equally wonderful festival that features flowers in all their glory, as well as a parade of floats and entertainment is THE CELEBRATION OF FLOWERS IN DEBRECEN. It's taken place for 100 years.

Like at the Rose Bowl Parade, millions of flowers are used in the most interesting ways.


I'm linking to an older site here above and will continue on this subject on the next post: The 2011 festival begins August 15th!