Sunday, April 14, 2013

Where do I belong anyway?

As we were traveling along, Csilla narrated some of the history of Hungarians, Romanians, Romany and Jews in Transylvania. Here, although Transylvania is historically Hungarian, the ethnic Transylvanian Hungarians are now the minority, and the Unitarians a double minority. But what sticks in my mind most strongly is the depth of emotion when Csilla spoke of her grandparents being Hungarian and Romanian and Hungarian and Romanian again, all without ever moving, of losing homeland and ethnic identity--and this time for good and all, now and forever second-class and somehow, through no fault of their own, second-rate.

Jere

This photo is of the building next to the Unitarian church in Brasov. We drove past before I could get my camera ready, though the church is a very similar building.

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