What is HUNGARIANESS?
I recently went out to a coffee house and got to talking to strangers who were discussing ethnicity and race, and the recent issues that make it a too sensitive subject to discuss. Several people excused what it was they were about to say by mentioning that they were NOT going to be "politically correct." There was a Jewish American person and a Native American person there and then me, a representative of Hungarianess - or at least Hungarian-Americaness. I thought about all the stereotypes I've presented here at MAGYAR AMERICAN BLOGSPOT. Certainly some of these are silly and some are possibly trouble. I mentioned how we Hungarians are supposed to be extra hairy people.
Perhaps what was most upsetting is that these people were NOT INTERESTED in the subject. Perhaps being a Magyar-American is just too European for them. The Native American person went on with a fractured history lesson of the Hungarians and a Irish-American blurted the whole story about us coming from Attila the Hun... They drummed me out and went on discussing Black Lives Matter - which, by the way, they were all disgusted with.
Well, a coffee house may be the last bastion of free expression and they are allowed to think as they think. What spawned this conversation was that the Jewish American walked outside a convenience store where he had purchased a cold soft drink when a Black man who he described as possibly a teenager bashed his face for no good reason with his fists. He fractured this man's nose, split his lip, and gave him a concussion and a day spent in an emergency room. Security cameras may have captured the assaults but the police were not interested and gave no home of finding or prosecuting the offender. He wondered if it was an anti-Semetic attack or simply because he looks White.
What do most Americans who have no Hungarian heritage think of Hungary and Hungarians?
Not much. That it's a conservative nation that hates gay people...? That Hungarians are not tolerant about immigrants?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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