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levo wrote:I beg your pardon in advance that I'm opening a topic in a language sub-forum, but Bulgarian members of Unilang are not really active in the other topics.
Arcane wrote:Hi, Levo,
1. We have sympathy for all ex-communist countries who struggled to make their way into the free market economy and continuously work on the internal democratic process. Hungary is generally stated as a good example of "shock therapy" compared to our "slow and easy" [and not that effective] approach towards economic transition. Also, Hungary is respected by those who are familiar with the events in 1956. Opening your Western border in 1989 was also a notable event.
Arcane wrote:About the "Balkanic man-type". I see what you mean and I can understand why those people annoy you. But have in mind it is not too fair to judge. Their behaviour and informal practices are bugging me too but we are children of another era, Levo.
Levo wrote:Why do you think that I have a negative opinion about Romanians themselves? Just because Bulgarian cities seemed to be more developed for me, it doesn't mean that I automatically have a bad opinion about the people in the country which is in a less luckier situation, as Romania. (And now, maybe only was.)
Levo wrote:Actually we in Hungary are divided as for the theories about our origin. It is proven that we were neighbours, not in our present situation, but when Bulgarians were still in the Southern Steppes of present-day Russia, just as Hungarians. That's something no Hungarian doubts. (Though I know I'm in not admitted territories when I'm talking about the non-Slavic past of Bulgarians, we learn about it at secondary school that Bulgarians were originally a Turkish people (like the Chuwash for example), and got Slavonized later, and they are not proud about this part).
Only that some go even further and say that on top of all these, we are also related, which is debatable.
duko wrote: Of course Bulgarian inherit their name from the ancient Bulgars, but those were only a ruling class and probably didn't have any greater cultural and genetic impact on the newly formed nation as a whole, just like the Rus in Russia.
Levo wrote:...By some unexplainable reason Hungarians have a positive memory about Bulgarians, but no-one really knows why. (Of course since that I negotioated the topic, and I found the possible explanations, but otherwise these are not well-known today)...
maxval wrote:Interesting topic for me.
I am mainly of Bulgarian ethnic background, but my native language is Hungarian. I speak Bulgarian at a near-native level, but with Hungarian intonation...
maxval wrote:Interesting topic for me.
I am mainly of Bulgarian ethnic background, but my native language is Hungarian. I speak Bulgarian at a near-native level, but with Hungarian intonation...
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