Today many governmental agencies, libraries, and so on are closed in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
It's a time to pause and think about stereotypes.
Some say that truisms are based on true things about ethnicity and race and religion and sex.
I can't help but think of all the discrimination and isms I've experienced in my lifetime, that of my parents and ancestors, because of PREjudice
But then again, they say you have to BE in order to have fun with or have humor about stereotypes, and that's something I try to do here at MAGYAR AMERICAN BLOGSPOT.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Saturday, January 19, 2019
IS WORKING SIX DAYS A WEEK THE SAME AS SLAVERY?
BLOOMBERG: ANTI SLAVERY PROSTEST - ANTI ORBAN PROTEST
EXCERPT: Hungarians staged nationwide protests and threatened the first general strike since the end of Communism to pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orban into repealing a controversial new law on overtime.
Thousands gathered on Saturday in Budapest and blocked traffic in more than a dozen cities across the country, reflecting dissent that's spreading beyond the capital. Labor unions and opposition groups are protesting what critics have dubbed the "slave law," which allows companies to ask employees to work the equivalent of six days a week...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
VILMOS ZSOLAY - WHY HE'S CALLED THE KING OF HUNGARIAN CERAMICS
BARD COLLEGE: HISTORICISM IN ZSOLNAY CERAMICS
EXCERPT: Vilmos Zsolnay adhered to this ideal of technical and artistic perfection. As his daughter Terez noted in her memoirs, Vilmos had wanted to be a painter in his youth. Beginning in 1865 he worked to improve his ornamental ceramics by testing a number of raw materials in and around Pecs, by introducing kaolin from Bohemia, and by refining these materials and even selling them. Through his business connections in England, France, Germany, and Austria, he was familiar with the trends of the period and able to introduce and market fashionable items that appeared as novelties to his small -town customers.
Zsolnay's first major success came at the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition. Some of his ornamental dishes were decorated by transfer prints, others by Schmelzfarben (high-fired colors), designed and executed by a painter named Claven. ....
DAILY NEWS HUNGARY - ZSOLNAY PORCELAIN KING
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS BEAUTIFUL and VARIED CERAMICS BY RUNNING A SEARCH FOR ZSOLNAY IN GOOGLE IMAGES.
EXCERPT: Vilmos Zsolnay adhered to this ideal of technical and artistic perfection. As his daughter Terez noted in her memoirs, Vilmos had wanted to be a painter in his youth. Beginning in 1865 he worked to improve his ornamental ceramics by testing a number of raw materials in and around Pecs, by introducing kaolin from Bohemia, and by refining these materials and even selling them. Through his business connections in England, France, Germany, and Austria, he was familiar with the trends of the period and able to introduce and market fashionable items that appeared as novelties to his small -town customers.
Zsolnay's first major success came at the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition. Some of his ornamental dishes were decorated by transfer prints, others by Schmelzfarben (high-fired colors), designed and executed by a painter named Claven. ....
DAILY NEWS HUNGARY - ZSOLNAY PORCELAIN KING
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS BEAUTIFUL and VARIED CERAMICS BY RUNNING A SEARCH FOR ZSOLNAY IN GOOGLE IMAGES.
Saturday, January 12, 2019
HUNGARIANS ARE MYSTERIOUS : HUNGARIAN / HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN STEREOTYPES
Once they have started pronouncing your Hungarian surname correctly - or close - it's time to tell your friends that it's TRUE - You ARE Mysterious!
How can you not be mysterious?
Every Hungarian has a mystery to them. Their origins, their language, their DNA, their sensibility.
You have strong political beliefs - but who knows what you're really thinking?
You like all women/men - but who knows who you really love?
You play chess well - but did you let the other person win - for future strategy?
Who knows what really goes on in your mind? Not even your mother is sure!
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
ICING IS NOT A HEALTH FOOD
I say this having eaten more thickly iced cupcakes.
It seems to me that over the last few months I have eaten more bread, more sweets, more cookies, slices of cake, and candy, than I may have in many prior years. It's not showing on my body (yet) because I have also been using more calories. I really must get back to my vegetable-loaded diet.
This is not a New Years Resolution. It is an acknowledgement that I'm courting health disaster if I don't reform!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!
It seems to me that over the last few months I have eaten more bread, more sweets, more cookies, slices of cake, and candy, than I may have in many prior years. It's not showing on my body (yet) because I have also been using more calories. I really must get back to my vegetable-loaded diet.
This is not a New Years Resolution. It is an acknowledgement that I'm courting health disaster if I don't reform!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!
