FIFTEEN YEARS!
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? I cannot fail to mention Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, the Blood Countess, and - new - Reptilians from "Draconian" Caves...
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.
Here we explore stereotypes, have some fun with them, look back and look forward. We visit places to go and things to do in Hungary, with hopes of travel there, and we feel concern over present-day politics and economic conditions, especially when it comes to war in Ukraine.
It is my hope that by exploring this blog, you can explore your heritage and find reason to understand it and be proud of it.
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