Ha, ha, ha Jackal our talk is a blind one, it’s something like:
I say: The tall guy called the cops, You say: No, the tall guy is called Johnny.
It’s not about being a mainstream American thinker here, is about becoming black under you skin while living abroad and that’s a real danger.
You know Europe since ever. It’s useless if you cannot recognize neo-nazi behaviour. I’m not sticking the nazi label to those people because I’m a mainstream American.
We don’t know in America what the real neo-Nazism is. It’s not about skinheads, freaks with strange clothes organizing riots in the streets. It’s about normal people with normal behaviour, normal clothes expecting the restoration of a Middle Age Kingdom. I visited Budapest twice first time in the 90’s for 2 months and the second time in 2009 for 2 weeks and in my opinion the racism raised in Hungary lately is not a fantasy it’s reality. The state Hungarian right wing extremists are dreaming about is impossible for the simple fact that it would imply a mixture of nations where Hungarians would be a minority unless they plan some genocide. That may be possible al neo-nazis have that kind of mentality. What’s interesting is that nobody is afraid of that, Romanians, Ukrainians, Slovakians, etc. are not so scared they don’t really care, maybe because it’s not a global European phenomenon and that cannot be possible within EU. The major risk for Hungarians these days is to be isolated within EU and that’s sad. Not all Hungarians are freaks like that there are many wise people still living in Hungary there is an opposition to the right wing extremists………………
http://www.spiegel.de/international/eur ... 69,00.html
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/23606 ... of-racism-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17394894
This is the proof that not all Hungarians are Nazis freaks:
http://www.social-europe.eu/2012/01/vik ... -sad-joke/
My opinion about Hungarians in general is that they are very pessimistic, very much oriented towards past. As I posted before what’s specific about Romanians is that they are not assimilating western culture/behaviour as it is, without making a previous judgment, they take only what they need, only what is absolutely necessary and only when the time has come. They have Brancovan architecture a 100% original product even it was influenced by venetian architects of 17th Century. Monasteries from Northern Moldavia & Bucovina were painted by some artists from 15th Century Florence but the result of their work is an original product…
The main problem of Hungarians is the fact they adopted western/central way of life as it is, since they arrived in Europe 1000 yrs ago, the only thing they have done was a copy/paste of the Western culture. Budapest is a very beautiful city but its architecture has nothing original/specific it’s an aesthetic dimension you can find all over Central Europe. I had the same disappointment after visiting Ermitage in Russia. After seeing Versailles and Sans Souci and other European palaces, Ermitage is lame just a copy. I don’t understand why they boast about it…
About gypsies now:
First of all I have to tell you there is racism against gypsies all over Europe from east to west, that’s something you probably know. As I posted before, in Romania/Bulgaria & all Balkans there is a peculiar relation of love & hate with gypsies that is hard to understand if you never have been here. It’s not the case with Hungary, they hate them and they truly do want to exterminate them, they did that before. If people from Romania/Bulgaria/Serbia/Ukraine were racist against gypsies communities how come that 90% of the gypsies in Europe are coming from this region? This was the question I’ve always asked myself. I had the answer only when I came here. They don’t hate them a better term is they dislike their lifestyle sincerely, they have an open attitude towards this fact, they don’t hide behind politically correct phrases like some other people do in Western Europe. They don’t like them but they don’t kill them either. Gypsies were not sent to extermination camps during the WWII. While Transylvania was occupied by Hungarian army most of the gypsies find refuge in Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Balkans in general. This is how they survived, the gypsies communities were very well conserved here. This is a pride for people in Balkans. There is a deep cultural gypsy tradition, music especially that's their redeeming quality. Goran Bregovic Orchestra is only the tip of the iceberg, there are tons of musicians like that and they are great I like them a lot, everybody does.
Through ages many tried to turn gypsies into a sedentary community. It’s impossible. The church baptized them when they arrived in Europe hundred of years ago, and they tried to teach them how to work the land. For them this was slavery. The communist regime was, one of the toughest systems trying to stop gypsies from travelling. They didn’t make it. It’s part of their being, it’s in their blood. Some NGO came to Romania 20 yrs ago from western Eu and USA also, to make them being “civilized people� they’re still trying…
There were riots against gypsies once or twice in the last 5 yrs here in Ro and in Bulgaria also, but they didn’t happen because of race reasons. There were revolts against some gipsy clans working hand in hand with local police in some kind of organized crime actions…
Yes Jackal you are right this forum is about chicks not about this kind of talk! I know if you want to capture the attention of a Hungarian chick, you must be compassionate about how cruel was the history with them and so on, well it’s not the case about Romanian chicks. My gf doesn’t care a lot about my posting here, Romanians in general don’t care about territories they may have lost, and they are much more oriented towards future, the evolution of EU community and so on.