Tuesday, January 12, 2010

MAYGAR AMERICAN BLOGSPOT - FOUNDATION STATEMENT

This blog, MAGYAR AMERICAN, is about and for those who have Hungarian heritage and are interested what an ethnic heritage of Hungarian means. We know the stereotypes! The stereotypes are all that many of our co-Americans know; Goulash (spicy meat stew or soup), csardas (dance), depression and suicide (we are supposed to be "passionate"), wine and poetry, and the very funny Gabor sisters?

Kossuth Coat of Arms


Additionally many Hungarians have learned to be ashamed of their ethnicity here in America and have been subject to prejudicial attitudes and discrimination, especially those who came to work in the era of the Industrial Revolution and the Robber Barrons. As a result many Americans with heritage in Hungary have changed their difficult to pronounce names or fail to admit they have Hungarian blood. Because Austria ruled Hungary and German became a language that every school child had to know, and some Hungarians mixed with ethnic

This blog is meant to help you trace your Hungarian ancestors using genealogy research methods and better understand them in context of their socio-cultural- political. You can bring those ancestors to life again in a sense, when you let them speak for themselves.