AKRON HUNGARIAN AMERICAN CLUB

Since 1923... join them for Father's Day Celebrations, or perhaps GRAPE DAY in early October (Do they get into the grape vats in Akron? (I've always wanted to stomp the grapes!)

Here April 2022   AKRON HUNGARIAN AMERICANS

THE MAGYAR - KOREAN CONNECTION - LANGUAGE LINKS? DNA?

I'm sure you've heard. There are many theories about who the original Magyar - Hungarians - were and where they came from, including a story about the founding of Hungary that involves men marrying fairy women, following a white stag though the mountains, spitting into two groups, and one of them finding a new country to live in. Linguistic experts have been arguing over it, but it is commonly believed that Hungarian has only two other language links - Korean and Finnish.

I've been reading DNA sites because I think THERE LIES THE ANSWER, and one of then suggests that the Magyars are the ORIGINAL SUMARIANS. One of them said that about 17% of today's Hungarians show evidence of Asian Blood. I think I'm one of those 17 %. Someday I'll take a few different DNA tests and see what comes up.

I notice that readers check in once in a while from Korea, and I would love to know what the Koreans think of their possible connection - 1000 or more years ago - with the Magyars!

AN INTERVIEW (EXTENSIVE!) WITH ARPAD GONCZ : PAST PRESIDENT OF HUNGARY : IDEAS HAVE A LONGER HALF LIFE

This interview is extensive, with a great number of pictures...

Árpád Göncz: "Ideas have a Longer Half-life"

"Whether you see your life as successful or unsuccessful depends on what kind of hearth and home you set out from. I can call my life a string of collapses, failures and blind alleys. And I can say I've ended up, after twists and turns, just where I wanted to be, and I can do, I'm free to do the things I want to do for the rest of my life... I'm not at odds with myself, I'm at odds with the world; I'm just as out of sorts as everyone else. But I feel I can allow myself, in the time I'm left with, to live for the future, not in the past. And if there should ever be five minutes, five political minutes in Hungary when there's a need for a man who can get on with both communists and populars and has a clean record, I'll be here if I'm needed and elsewhere if I'm not."

(From the interview with Árpád Göncz made by András B.
Hegedűs on February 14, 1985)


This is a history lesson that Hungarians are probably familiar with and Americans not.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY : THE WOMAN WHO NURTURED YOU

If you're on this earth you had a mother and, if you're fortunate, you had a mother who truly nurtured you. 

How well do you know your mom, or the person who nurtured you? 

Do you know who your grandmothers and great-grandmothers were? 

If you met your mother, grandmother, or great-grandmother today, what, if anything would you have in common with them? 

If you don't know these women well, perhaps this is the day to honor them, as well as to ask them more about their life.

I love listening to old people tell their stories about how they lived when they were growing up.

NEW GOOGLE TRANSLATER INSTALLED

I've installed the new Google translator so you can instantly translate this whole blog into Hungarian, German, or another language. For now both this new translator and the old one will remain on my side bar!

Thank you for reading MAGYAR - AMERICAN. And as always, if you have any suggestions, leave a comment.

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