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We had a conversation with my friend N about how we don’t really get “black pride” and other shared experiences and traits of black people, especially black Americans.
Many of these experiences stem from the shared background and inherited generational trauma of slavery. And because Hungary never participated in slave trade in any capacity, we have no reference to really understand its legacy.
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- A follow-up comment from both of us was: as if we needed slavery in Hungarian history…
- A recurring element of Hungarian history, that we live right now as well: do we belong to the East or to the West?
- I heard it in a sermon (early 2010’s, Fertőd - but by whom?) that the first documented example of Hungary being flipped between East and West is when the Pannonia Province was assigned from the Eastern part of the Roman Empire to the Western.
- During Hungarian history, we were either under occupation and being the border state of an empire (the most eastern part of the Habsburg territories, the most western part of the Eastern Bloc, etc.), or defending one from the other (ie. the Turkish invasion stopped here and we stayed under Turkish rule for 150 years).
- A recurring element of Hungarian history, that we live right now as well: do we belong to the East or to the West?