Sunday/Monday

Hungarians are a curious type of people. Wherever they go into the, we intermarry  world, wherever they wind up they try to assimilate.

Maybe it is not easy in Africa or Asian countries but in other places it is not impossible. We learn the language, we learn the costumes, we intermarry and thus assimilate.

Assimilacio is good but we shouldn't lose our national identity. But that is what exactly happens here in America. At least in New York.

The other day I had the opportunity to read a Hungarian newspaper that is published in Toronto. I was very surprised to see how much Hungarian activities are going on.

Toronto has Hungarian restaurants, Hungarian stores and Hungarian churches. New York has almost none.

There are some social clubs (one that I know of that claims to be Hungarian but their main occupation is the twice weekly card games). Being Hungarian is not important to most of them besides the fact that some of them still don't speak English.

There are some suburban areas around New York where there are some Hungarian clubs but their existence is very limited and it appears to me that their programs are kind of forced efforts.

In the building where I live there must be another Hungarian because there is a Hungarian decal on his car but I don't know who the person is.

There is a New York paper in Hungarian but it is a piss poor effort since it does not publish anything of interest rather it plagiarizes articles from other publications.

This is a  sad thing. It would be nice to see other countrymen once in a while.

It was a very interesting phenomenon that in 2006 on the 50th anniversary of the 1956 October events there was a special night at Carnegie Hall in New York. The place was really filled. People came in buses from all the surrounding areas near and far.

I was really surprised to see that many Hungarians in one place, in New York.

But after the evening was over they all went back to their own places never to be heard again. This is what is sad.

I'm not insinuating that we shouldn't live our own lives but it would be nice once in a while to get together and may be enjoy a Hungarian show or a Hungarian movie or eat some Hungarian food (in a restaurant because at home I am thankfully satisfied).