Love your video. We are an English couple who have been living in the south of Hungary for the past 10 years, near Szeged in a small village and we feel the community spirit is great, the locals are always there to help and often dont even want to accept money, which can be embarrassing. The uk has lost that community spirit. Totally agree about the language, so hard to learn. Thanks for sharing your video. Welcome ❤
Such a lovely video. Loved both of you. I am glad that you both are happy here. Obviously you miss Ghana, the family but really happy that you are happy here. I personally had about 5 teachers from Ghana when I was living in North Africa and loved all of them, also in school were srudents from Ghana and they were good friends. I was happy to listen to you, good memories came back. Cheers beautiful sister and brother. Wish you all the best here in Hungary and throughout in the future. 😊 👍
I'm glad to hear your healthy opinion about racism. Black guys are interesting phenomenom in Hungary yet, but in most of cases Hungarians don't think any bad with remarking the difference. Try to find a lot of connections and you'll see we like you. You are very nice and sympathetic persons.
Wow this was very informative and fun to watch. Thanks for sharing 🎉 A new Ghanaian subscriber here, would love to see more videos from you about life in Hungary 🇭🇺 😘
The best youtube traveller, Bald and Bankrupt just visited Africa, Rwanda and Uganda. Everybody steared him like crazy, he just heard from everywhere "Mazungu" - which is 'white nan" in their language. This doesn't meant any bad, just the people's curiosity. So yes, can be thais n Hungary, especially out of Budapest prople stearing you, but this have no negative meaning, as you felt well, and as you said well in this very kind, lovely clip. All the best for you!
Saw this video randomly with youtube algorithm. I'm also Turkish expat moved gere 2 years ago. It's a ver nice video and I agree most of your topics. It was nice to hear it from other expats. Thank you very much:)
As a Hungarian who has lived abroad, I think that Hungary can be a tough country for foreigners. You guys are very good ambassadors for Ghana, though :)
"Racism" here does not mean hatred of black type person(like in the past), it simply means protecting the country, preserving the composition of society,culture,lifestyle, so it is not directed against the black race, everyone knows that black skin doesn't matter, but in Budapest if you see too many blacks, and you experience a bad glance towards you this not a "qualifying look" against the person but rather a instinctive or conscious protection of the country and culture(and protection of all cultures of the world against mixture) but since migration is quite closed here, there aren't many blacks, so there aren't many bad glance either, more of an inquisitiveness, curiosity, and everyone knows that Budapest is a cosmopolitan city, so many foreigners live there,only peoples from the countryside are surprised when they visit Budapest, almost nowhere live blacks in the countryside i think if you speak Hungarian and show that you are Hungarian in every level,only black, e.g. the Hungarian football team on your T-shirt, etc... and you don't behave defiantly,dont dress provocatively,anti culturally,then they will definitely never look at you with a bad eye,starting from myself, I consciously don't look at blacks or Asians a little bit, don't want that them feel or see that I'm very curious of them,they should not feel like they're being stared at,but they should feel naturally like they're one of many,possible,i think 90% of people in Hungary think this way
I have to say, the ,,mind your own business" thing is most true in the cities of Hungary. But in villages and smaller towns (100.000 inhabitants isn't small in Hungary) you can usually see the ,,everyone here knows everyone" types of communities. Budapest is basically our only big city the second biggest being Debrecen (my home town) with roughly 200.000 inhabitants. But i grew up outside of Debrecen n a village, and i often visited my grandma, who even has a farm. That lifestyle represents most of Hungary, and that's what many are proud of!
Budapest is country in the country. BP have own independency. Because it was a capital for much larger country. Yust find the map from 1914. And all cultural areas were focused in Budapest as a capital. And after 1920 it cept this bib capital feeling.
Welcome in our country. I am happy people like you can come with this stipendium. 🙂 About local communities: I live in a village, here they know everything about you and people visit around a lot in surroundings - but it is in the process of changing and in cities (even cities smaller like Sopron) you do not get to feel this. In villages some people even dislike this part if they are not used to it. From your talk it looks like though that this is like that even in cities in Ghana maybe.
Hungary is a country right at the middle of everything, and everything around us want to tell us which direction to change, while we just want to keep our culture as it is. And we are pretty tired of this, but usually we don't hate anyone, especially without reason. Hungary has a bad reputation, and we are being called as racists very often, because we don't jump immediately if Brussels or Germany comes up with some new rule for us to follow. Perhaps some things in our country is slower, but it is because we have to reconsider everything twice at least. :D I''m 33 and I haven't seen real racism in my country.
Egyetértek. Nem vagyunk rasszisták. Nyilván van egy kis réteg, de az mindenhol van. Nem voltunk gyarmatosítók, nem voltunk rabszolgatartók. Nyilván óvatosabbak vagyunk, de rugdostak is minket mindíg, minden irányból. Lehet minket utálni, de itt vagyunk több, mint ezer éve és itt is leszünk. És az sem igaz, hogy muszlim nem jöhet ide. Eddig is jöttek, sokan letelepedtek, munkát találtak, csaláfot alapítottak, jelezném, hogy vannak 400 éves török hódítás alatt épült minaretek stb amit megőriztünk, a történelmünk része lett. A magyar befogadó, de óvatos, mert a nagy befogadás sokszor majdnem a vesztünket okozta. Szóval lehet akármilyen bőrszíned, vallásod, ennek az országnak a legnagyobb része soha nem fog téged bántani. Aki mást állít, az téved, hazudik, ellenünk uszít.
Dont hate anyone??? Have you not seen the propoganda in the past 10 years??? Dont you see the insane corruption here? Stadion next to a village, canopy walkway in the middle of plain, billionaire gas man and so on… my wife is sick for almost a year and cant get operated as doctors keep delaying the date for months…. Inflation is crazy especially food prices shoot up heavily in the past years many things doubled or even tripled. Plus getting a visa is a lot more difficult now, they changed something this year, we have been waiting for a brazilian new colleague for months as he still hasnt got the visa pfff. Dont spread lies please, coming to budapest as a tourist is fine but living here for an avg person is different.
At 21:54 you seemed like you thought its the end of questions, it is so nice that you just talked about positive things and didnt even think you should mention the ticket people :) Anyway you both are very cute, I wish you a nice time here! :)
I'm pretty sure it was me whom you asked about the hot peppers/paprika. Spar at Szigony street right? How crazy is that I've found this video by chance! Imagine the look on my face after listening 20+ minutes to a random youtube video, the story begins to get waay to familiar. Like I remember something like that happening to me :D
Welcome to Hungary! So happy you're having a good experience, I was smiling throughout the entire video. Use the opportunity and learn as much Hungarian as possible. You'd be considered a superhuman, basically. By Hungarians and also abroad. 😁
Yup, happens to a lot of us :) I also moved to Hungary at some point, thinking I'll stay for a couple of years... then some decades later I'm like DAMN boy :)))
The Mongol empire in 1241 then Ottoman empire made it so Hungary had to invite people to the country to survive , many disasters happened in the country of course people are not so outspoken.
yes, our country vas devasted so much time in 1000 year, and westen countries left us to be runied ba mohamedans, communists, germans, and so son. Till the (finally in) 15th century we was the most powerfull country in the Europe - Mathias Rex Everybody affraid from us.
It is true, foreign friends, don't mess with the BKK lol Also, Hungarians can be distant but people in Budapest and bigger cities are different than people in the countryside. If you visit a family in rural Hungary prepare for pálinka shots and lots of food experience lmao
The alienation is only true (somewhat) for Budapest. Rural Hungary is a totally different beast. People are friendly and caring... there IS a sense of community. Budapest caught the "metropolis" bug maybe lately... also, it depends where you live inside Budapest. We had wonderful neighbors while living there, a superb community in the XIII district... in the II. district, not so much... so it really depends where you live.
I'm glad you take the stares in stride, I think it's an Eastern European thing and has nothing to do with racism. We have a lot of people of colour living with us but mostly from the Middle East, so it's still pretty rare to meet black people. I can tell, if we are staring at a black person, that's because we find them beautiful but of course we are too shy to tell them, so we end up awkwardly walking away while hoping they don't feel offended or something. 😅
@@LB-ci8pzI think it can be both. It's a rare sight so of course people are wondering why did they come to our country but they look fascinating, often really beautiful as well
Personally perfectly think the same as the original comment, I often like people who looks interesting for me and as I rarely see black people in real life, I often really find you beautiful! But I always hope my little shy "stare" doesn't get noticed and make anybody too offended or something.
Yes, we do be like this. We actually know how to speak english but we try to avoid it because we kinda have this anxious/fear feeling that we might make a mistake and thus makes ourselves look stupid or cringe, like, we are trying to be strict to ourselves to be perfect, make no mistakes and it will be good. Of course not everyone of us thinks like that, some of us have a lot of confidence and has no problem to talk in english, even if they make mistakes :D
Hungarians are careful. It comes from our history. It is necessary to prove that someone is worthy of respect or love. If you don't have this, you will feel the distance of the Hungarians. There are liberal Hungarians who behave in a way that is seen in Western Europe. But for the majority of Hungarians, this is hypocritical. How much does skin color matter? The first impression is that the person is a stranger. Second impression, whether it will be or not is up to the stranger. But because of this, Hungarian culture remains what it has been for 1,100 years.
Hungary was never the same for a thousand time. The composition of the country is one of the most diverse in europe. Hungary was always the melting pot of european nations, Germans, Slovaks, Croats, Romans, Serbs, Turks, Gipsies, and not to mention tens of nations who were got melted into being Hungarian like Kun, Jász, Ruszin, avar, hun, kun, úz, besenyő, böszörmény, jász, székely, tót, rutén, bolgár stb ,zsidó
@@Horizontal77 Mentallity has also changed a lot. Everything changes all the time. First Hungarians were pagans, then roman cathlics, nowadays, mostly atheists. Not sure how could you prove that Hungarian culture remained the same for 1100 years. Do you still drink horse milk spirit, and live in a tent? Even our writing has changed to the latin alphabet.
@@leventelajos5078 Nagyon egysíkú a magyarokról alkotott elképzelésed. Az avarok akik csatlakoztak a magyar törzsszövetséghez (500 millió) Manicheisták voltak, vagyis keresztények. A magyar törzsszövetség (500 millió) harmada szintén Manicheista volt, mivel Nagy Károly támadása során igen sok avar menekült a Magyar Törzsszövetségbe, ők segítették később a magyarok bevándorlását a Kárpát medencébe. A Magyar Törzsszövetséget meg a muszlimok üldözték el az előző lakhelyükről, ahol nemcsak sátorban laktak. Azért igen hamar építkezésbe tudtak kezdeni a magyarok, nem sátorban lakott mind, ahogy képzeled, csak a vándorlás során. Amúgy a magyarok többségének az egyesülés előtt Tengri vallása volt, ami hasonlatos a keresztény hithez. Egy főisten volt.
I traveled in Africa for 6 months. I don't want to state what countries, because my experiences were not so grate. I did meet some very superb people, however the vast majority were quite racist. At one time I was walking with a private local tour guide and a couple of local guys started shouting why a white guy is walking with a black woman. At other times the military or the police were shaking me down for money. There was a lot of disrespect towads me as well. I'm a typical hungarian guy, reserved, quiet and polite. I treat people the way I want to be treated. I prefer Asia and Asians for the above reasons .
sorry about paprika not being hot enough, we don't have scott bonet which I also prefer if I have a chance to eat fufu or palmnut soup. enjoy your stay!
@@tewaaandlivingit not living there yet but will soon, so maybe you can send me the recipe for a proper ghanian palmnut soup. although Im not sure if there are places where I could find the rest of the ingredients, like dry fish, goat meat, ocra or fufu. the few times I had it I found it pleasantly exotic☺
Kashmir has the palmnut paste and goat meat as well & a lot of other ingredients. For the recipe please check this woman out on UA-cam - ua-cam.com/video/6l1IBu1jbPk/v-deo.htmlsi=h6AEiLT-P7Xa90e2
Stipendium Hungaricum only exists since 2013 but similar scholarships has existed for at least 25 years but probably more. And Sopron has a population of 62k not 12k.
I'm Hungarian, I remember there were times when I didn't buy a ticket for the trip, how many times I did run away from the inspectors, so they are couldnt punish me. Love your videos guys , thank you for make it !
Ha-Ha! 😂 The reason of starring a black person in Hungary is only about curious about somebody who is totally different and not seen before often. 1. We live in a free/open democracy just an only ~30years 2. Before hungarians lived in a closed border country under a Communist regime for ~45years after The WWII, so was no any migration in or out 3. Before we had no any colonizing activity during the history. We mostly get mixed with nearby indo-european nations. So starring is only about your unique and dirrenet appearance. 😊 A natural curiousness, especially in the countryside. In big University cities or in Budapest, The case is more comfortable. I know It could be uncomfortable to you, but you do not need to fear from us. 😊 I wish you luck and great times here!
The Dutch Republic, now the Netherlands, had contact with North America, South America, South Africa, West Africa, Sri Lanka, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, DECIMA (an artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki), Formosa (Fort Zeelandia, Fort Noord Holland...). We are used to all kinds of people. Jó estét kívánok.
as a hungarian im so happy you liked being in our country! ah and if you want to find more open people leave the big city and visit some of our countrysides.
I'm at the part where you are talking about community,it is a capital city, come to Szeged you will feel community. It is a small country but still in terms of human interactions there are huge difference between East/South vs North/West. Latter is colder, more distant. I love that in Szeged people are very understanding and supporting. But still never compare a 2 million habited capital to a smaller community
@@robertkokeny9418ez egy belsős dolog a Soproni egyetemen. Régen a bányászok köszöntek igy régen egymásnak. 1700 as években amikor az egyetemet alapították selmecbányán a tanulók átvették a szokást és amikor az új szakok sorra megjelentek a köszönés és a szokások maradtak. A három testőr írója Alexander Dumas az egyetemen tett látogatásakor halotta az egy mindenkiért mindwnk egyért amit azt egyetemen 1789 óta, a diákkör megalakulása óta használtak. A francia forradalom inspirálta és a diáktanács felvette a szabadság, egyenlőség, testvériség jelmondatot kiegészíteve igazságossággal és bajtársiassággal.
girl, sopron aint a small town internationally sure, even compared to budapest its small, everything is small compared to the capital ,but sopron is rlly what we’d consider a larger city hell the whole country’ population is 10mil😆 a 60k smn city is big
Hungary is surrendered by many countries who can to some level understand one another’s language. Hungarian is unique. Language defines major part of cultures . Even those who speaks English to a a good level would not be able to relate to you guys because of the lack of experience with the rest of the world . I was born there lived there until age 19 , now I’m 41 and this has not improved much since I was a young fellow. However despite the difficulty of the language, if you stay, learn it please properly. Hungarians are warm , helpful and willing to be there for you. In some countries it doesn’t take much to break the ice. In Hungary you might need a chainsaw. But there is a way for sure. All the best to both of you !
👍👍👍Isten hozott gyönyörű hazámban.A jó embereket szeretik a Magyarok. Tanuld meg,hogy mi nem nácik vagy fajgyűrölők vagyunk hanem rasszisták. De csak két rasszt ismerünk.Jó embert meg rossz embert. Ha jó ember vagy lehetsz piros,zőld kék vagy fekete,nem számít.De ugyan ez igaz a rossz emberre is.Mindegy milyen színű. A rossz ember az rossz ember. És direkt Magyarul írok,hogy tanulj olvasni is.Ha megtanulnád a nyelvünk,ami tudom nem egyszerű,de akkor szeretnének ebben a hazában igazán.
I often think about Béla the fourth when I face discrimination. People with good will are welcome, simple as this. And in my eyes when someone states, swears that they are Hungarians and they mean it, understand what it means, they are Hungarians.
I'm happy that you have mostly positive experience. My fellow Hungarians can be pretty racist, especially against people of color, although liberal cities like Budapest and Szeged are better. The community is SOOOO much stronger in villages or even in smaller towns. But I was born and raised in Bp, so I like it this way. I have my privacy. :) Please make a shop in downtown with imported food! :) I would love to try it. BKK inspectors are always triggered because they are abused a lot, don't earn much and tbh only those people work there who can't find other job so they are .... cough ... not the most intelligent or kindest ppl. Most Hungarian ppl are afraid of talking in English and are introverted.
Tbh Hungarians can be different in different places,especially if you look at Hungarians in Budapest and at Hungarians outside of Hungary. I live in Serbia as a Hungarian cus where I live was Hungary and we are pretty different from people from Budapest cus of the cultural impact Serbia has on us. Im sure its the case with other Hungarians that are in the same situation.For exemple you guys metioned that they keep things for themselfs,well not here. Especially elderly people,but when Im at a bus stop or smth they always start talking to me ab their whole life. We do keep lots of things to ourselfs,but def more open then people in Budapest. My prarents friends moved to Hungary and they said that thry find ot hard to make friends there cus they keep everything for themselfs,they ask things from you,but avoide saying stuff ab themselfs. (Not saying everyone is like that tho) Its also so funny to me when I tell Hungarians (from Hungary) that Im from Serbia cus they are all like "wow your Hungarian is so good" and Im like "yeaah I am Hungarian actually" (but its kinda awkward when I accidentally start speaking in Serbian to strangers cus Im used to it,for exemple once somebody opened the door for me and I thanked them in Serbian,they were prob confused) But also the accents and words can be different depending on where you live,like a few villiges from me Hungarians use words I have never heard of in my life,like yk made up word,its very interesting tbh. I have classmates from a bunch of places cus music high schools are not very common and my city happens to have it,so people come to my school from all the parts of voivodeship. We learn ways of saying this from each other and new words from each other all the time.
Szia földi. :Dén már 32 éve itt élek, Pesten is 14 évet ... mindehol otthonosan fogadtak, és rengeteg jó barátom, társaságom volt beutaztam az országoz mád a 90es évekbne úgy ahogy akkoriban a hioakból kevesen tehették meg... és kedvelnek pont azért mert kicsit más magyar vagyok ... Bácskai :D délvidéki félvad balkáni magyar :)
Guys tell the black guy Culture shock addict he's feel that the hungarian dont like black people im happy to hear from you its good country 😊 stay positive
Well 99.99% of the hungarian people have only issues with those coming here for the sole purpose of being a freeloader, everyone else is welcome, so are you. And try to learn the language, I know it's hard but still :)
Eszembe jutott egy történet ismerősöm székely és kint volt Austriában akkor még nem beszélt németül és leakartak szólítani egy taxist monták hogy beszéljen nyugotan magyarul megláta a taxist (teljesen fekete volt ez a 90 évek) Ez nem beszél magyarul erre megszólalt nyugotan gyertek magyar országon tanultam
Hey, welcome here! People with positivity are always welcomed! Hungary was always a melting pod of central Europe during its 1,000+ years. Avars, Slavs, Kuns, Puns, Bulgarians, Gipsies (came from India), Germans and so on. That made our women so beautiful and our food culture so rich.
Why is there supposed to be a problem then? It's a beautiful country with great food, beautiful scenery, and architecture, while there are issues like all other countries face nowadays.
Here my favourite Hungarian poem, me omma used to sing when i was a kid: Ud rēa, ud sura rēa Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa Mu rēa mu sura rēa Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba An kita badabaraaba Ki anta badasuraaba Mu namluulu baangaraaba
9:25 Sopron: population: 62.000.
Thanks for the correction.
Love your video. We are an English couple who have been living in the south of Hungary for the past 10 years, near Szeged in a small village and we feel the community spirit is great, the locals are always there to help and often dont even want to accept money, which can be embarrassing. The uk has lost that community spirit.
Totally agree about the language, so hard to learn.
Thanks for sharing your video. Welcome ❤
Thanks youuu❤️
You seem to live close by! It would be my pleasure to grab a drink and practice my speaking, if you're up for it!
Hi from Szeged!
When you pronunced Budapest correctly, youve got a sub. :)
WELCOME here,,we love all the GOOD people ,,like,,you,,GOD BLESS YOU
You are nice and kind people. Welcome in Hungary :)
Thank you!
Such a lovely video. Loved both of you. I am glad that you both are happy here. Obviously you miss Ghana, the family but really happy that you are happy here. I personally had about 5 teachers from Ghana when I was living in North Africa and loved all of them, also in school were srudents from Ghana and they were good friends. I was happy to listen to you, good memories came back. Cheers beautiful sister and brother. Wish you all the best here in Hungary and throughout in the future. 😊 👍
Thank you so much ☺️
I'm glad to hear your healthy opinion about racism. Black guys are interesting phenomenom in Hungary yet, but in most of cases Hungarians don't think any bad with remarking the difference. Try to find a lot of connections and you'll see we like you. You are very nice and sympathetic persons.
Many thanks🙂
Agreed, black people are still a rare sight even in Budapest.
They do.
@@banatibor83 Just as rare as in most countries that doesn't have a history with african slave trade in any kind of form or connection.
'sympathetic persons' Ez nem helyes angolul.
Wow am happy to hear the encouraging words from you guys see you soon in Hungary 🇭🇺❤🎉
Wow this was very informative and fun to watch. Thanks for sharing 🎉
A new Ghanaian subscriber here, would love to see more videos from you about life in Hungary 🇭🇺 😘
Thank you😊
The best youtube traveller, Bald and Bankrupt just visited Africa, Rwanda and Uganda. Everybody steared him like crazy, he just heard from everywhere "Mazungu" - which is 'white nan" in their language. This doesn't meant any bad, just the people's curiosity. So yes, can be thais n Hungary, especially out of Budapest prople stearing you, but this have no negative meaning, as you felt well, and as you said well in this very kind, lovely clip. All the best for you!
Saw this video randomly with youtube algorithm. I'm also Turkish expat moved gere 2 years ago. It's a ver nice video and I agree most of your topics. It was nice to hear it from other expats. Thank you very much:)
Thank you 🙂
Why?
We hungarians and turks are borthers we are all descedants of Attila, we are the creators of european civilization🐺🤘🐺🤘🐺💪💪💪💪💪
@@radir1657 yeah? try work with them first xd
@@JustbeHappy1122 Racist soros agent
As a Hungarian who has lived abroad, I think that Hungary can be a tough country for foreigners. You guys are very good ambassadors for Ghana, though :)
"Racism" here does not mean hatred of black type person(like in the past), it simply means protecting the country, preserving the composition of society,culture,lifestyle, so it is not directed against the black race, everyone knows that black skin doesn't matter, but in Budapest if you see too many blacks, and you experience a bad glance towards you this not a "qualifying look" against the person but rather a instinctive or conscious protection of the country and culture(and protection of all cultures of the world against mixture)
but since migration is quite closed here, there aren't many blacks, so there aren't many bad glance either, more of an inquisitiveness, curiosity, and everyone knows that Budapest is a cosmopolitan city, so many foreigners live there,only peoples from the countryside are surprised when they visit Budapest, almost nowhere live blacks in the countryside i think
if you speak Hungarian and show that you are Hungarian in every level,only black, e.g. the Hungarian football team on your T-shirt, etc... and you don't behave defiantly,dont dress provocatively,anti culturally,then they will definitely never look at you with a bad eye,starting from myself, I consciously don't look at blacks or Asians a little bit, don't want that them feel or see that I'm very curious of them,they should not feel like they're being stared at,but they should feel naturally like they're one of many,possible,i think 90% of people in Hungary think this way
Yeah, most people who look at foreigners negatively are usually would just think "ugh, foreigners" in the worst case.
@@tovarishchfeixiao szar helyen élsz szar emberekkel körülötted ...
You pronunced Budapest correctly! :D You guys are just charming. I wish you the best truly.
This is interesting to watch. Thanks for the experience 🎉
you're welcome☺
I have to say, the ,,mind your own business" thing is most true in the cities of Hungary. But in villages and smaller towns (100.000 inhabitants isn't small in Hungary) you can usually see the ,,everyone here knows everyone" types of communities. Budapest is basically our only big city the second biggest being Debrecen (my home town) with roughly 200.000 inhabitants. But i grew up outside of Debrecen n a village, and i often visited my grandma, who even has a farm. That lifestyle represents most of Hungary, and that's what many are proud of!
Budapest is country in the country. BP have own independency. Because it was a capital for much larger country. Yust find the map from 1914.
And all cultural areas were focused in Budapest as a capital. And after 1920 it cept this bib capital feeling.
@@robertkokeny9418 Ezt légyszíves Magyarul mondd el, mert nem értettem
Welcome in our country. I am happy people like you can come with this stipendium. 🙂
About local communities: I live in a village, here they know everything about you and people visit around a lot in surroundings - but it is in the process of changing and in cities (even cities smaller like Sopron) you do not get to feel this. In villages some people even dislike this part if they are not used to it. From your talk it looks like though that this is like that even in cities in Ghana maybe.
Hungary is a country right at the middle of everything, and everything around us want to tell us which direction to change, while we just want to keep our culture as it is. And we are pretty tired of this, but usually we don't hate anyone, especially without reason. Hungary has a bad reputation, and we are being called as racists very often, because we don't jump immediately if Brussels or Germany comes up with some new rule for us to follow. Perhaps some things in our country is slower, but it is because we have to reconsider everything twice at least. :D I''m 33 and I haven't seen real racism in my country.
our sense of humour is morbid af tho, sometimes it can be confusing as well.
Egyetértek. Nem vagyunk rasszisták. Nyilván van egy kis réteg, de az mindenhol van. Nem voltunk gyarmatosítók, nem voltunk rabszolgatartók. Nyilván óvatosabbak vagyunk, de rugdostak is minket mindíg, minden irányból. Lehet minket utálni, de itt vagyunk több, mint ezer éve és itt is leszünk. És az sem igaz, hogy muszlim nem jöhet ide. Eddig is jöttek, sokan letelepedtek, munkát találtak, csaláfot alapítottak, jelezném, hogy vannak 400 éves török hódítás alatt épült minaretek stb amit megőriztünk, a történelmünk része lett. A magyar befogadó, de óvatos, mert a nagy befogadás sokszor majdnem a vesztünket okozta.
Szóval lehet akármilyen bőrszíned, vallásod, ennek az országnak a legnagyobb része soha nem fog téged bántani. Aki mást állít, az téved, hazudik, ellenünk uszít.
You haven't seen racism. Shocking testimony. Are you cigány though? I agree they probably handle black or even arabic people than cigánys
Dont hate anyone??? Have you not seen the propoganda in the past 10 years??? Dont you see the insane corruption here? Stadion next to a village, canopy walkway in the middle of plain, billionaire gas man and so on… my wife is sick for almost a year and cant get operated as doctors keep delaying the date for months….
Inflation is crazy especially food prices shoot up heavily in the past years many things doubled or even tripled.
Plus getting a visa is a lot more difficult now, they changed something this year, we have been waiting for a brazilian new colleague for months as he still hasnt got the visa pfff.
Dont spread lies please, coming to budapest as a tourist is fine but living here for an avg person is different.
visit BAZ county or any gypsy lived places, you'll find real racism there and race hatred against everyone who's white or especially Hungarian
At 21:54 you seemed like you thought its the end of questions, it is so nice that you just talked about positive things and didnt even think you should mention the ticket people :) Anyway you both are very cute, I wish you a nice time here! :)
I'm pretty sure it was me whom you asked about the hot peppers/paprika. Spar at Szigony street right? How crazy is that I've found this video by chance! Imagine the look on my face after listening 20+ minutes to a random youtube video, the story begins to get waay to familiar. Like I remember something like that happening to me :D
Welcome to Hungary! So happy you're having a good experience, I was smiling throughout the entire video.
Use the opportunity and learn as much Hungarian as possible. You'd be considered a superhuman, basically. By Hungarians and also abroad. 😁
Thanks for the tips!
Yup, happens to a lot of us :) I also moved to Hungary at some point, thinking I'll stay for a couple of years... then some decades later I'm like DAMN boy :)))
The Mongol empire in 1241 then Ottoman empire made it so Hungary had to invite people to the country to survive , many disasters happened in the country of course people are not so outspoken.
Thanks for the info Zoli
yes, our country vas devasted so much time in 1000 year, and westen countries left us to be runied ba mohamedans, communists, germans, and so son.
Till the (finally in) 15th century we was the most powerfull country in the Europe - Mathias Rex
Everybody affraid from us.
It is true, foreign friends, don't mess with the BKK lol
Also, Hungarians can be distant but people in Budapest and bigger cities are different than people in the countryside.
If you visit a family in rural Hungary prepare for pálinka shots and lots of food experience lmao
palinka, kocsma, piac, bográcsozás, will much help to learn Hungarian :)
As a hungarian, i really love it! this channel is so underrated!!!
Glad you enjoy it!
God bless yall
The alienation is only true (somewhat) for Budapest. Rural Hungary is a totally different beast. People are friendly and caring... there IS a sense of community. Budapest caught the "metropolis" bug maybe lately... also, it depends where you live inside Budapest. We had wonderful neighbors while living there, a superb community in the XIII district... in the II. district, not so much... so it really depends where you live.
I'm glad you take the stares in stride, I think it's an Eastern European thing and has nothing to do with racism.
We have a lot of people of colour living with us but mostly from the Middle East, so it's still pretty rare to meet black people.
I can tell, if we are staring at a black person, that's because we find them beautiful but of course we are too shy to tell them, so we end up awkwardly walking away while hoping they don't feel offended or something. 😅
Noooo. We stare at them because they are so out of place and not because they are beautiful. And wondeting what the hell are doing here...
@@LB-ci8pzI think it can be both. It's a rare sight so of course people are wondering why did they come to our country but they look fascinating, often really beautiful as well
Personally perfectly think the same as the original comment, I often like people who looks interesting for me and as I rarely see black people in real life, I often really find you beautiful! But I always hope my little shy "stare" doesn't get noticed and make anybody too offended or something.
@@ayko_gn Beauty is very subjective though.
Great video! :-) Have a good time in Hungary!
Thank you! Will do!
Sopron is in fact a city with a population of over 62K people.
Yes, we do be like this. We actually know how to speak english but we try to avoid it because we kinda have this anxious/fear feeling that we might make a mistake and thus makes ourselves look stupid or cringe, like, we are trying to be strict to ourselves to be perfect, make no mistakes and it will be good. Of course not everyone of us thinks like that, some of us have a lot of confidence and has no problem to talk in english, even if they make mistakes :D
Hungarians are careful. It comes from our history. It is necessary to prove that someone is worthy of respect or love. If you don't have this, you will feel the distance of the Hungarians. There are liberal Hungarians who behave in a way that is seen in Western Europe. But for the majority of Hungarians, this is hypocritical. How much does skin color matter? The first impression is that the person is a stranger. Second impression, whether it will be or not is up to the stranger. But because of this, Hungarian culture remains what it has been for 1,100 years.
Hungary was never the same for a thousand time. The composition of the country is one of the most diverse in europe. Hungary was always the melting pot of european nations, Germans, Slovaks, Croats, Romans, Serbs, Turks, Gipsies, and not to mention tens of nations who were got melted into being Hungarian like Kun, Jász, Ruszin, avar, hun, kun, úz, besenyő, böszörmény, jász, székely, tót, rutén, bolgár stb ,zsidó
@@leventelajos5078 You talk about DNA, I talk about mentality.
@@Horizontal77 Mentallity has also changed a lot. Everything changes all the time. First Hungarians were pagans, then roman cathlics, nowadays, mostly atheists. Not sure how could you prove that Hungarian culture remained the same for 1100 years. Do you still drink horse milk spirit, and live in a tent? Even our writing has changed to the latin alphabet.
@@leventelajos5078 Nagyon egysíkú a magyarokról alkotott elképzelésed. Az avarok akik csatlakoztak a magyar törzsszövetséghez (500 millió) Manicheisták voltak, vagyis keresztények. A magyar törzsszövetség (500 millió) harmada szintén Manicheista volt, mivel Nagy Károly támadása során igen sok avar menekült a Magyar Törzsszövetségbe, ők segítették később a magyarok bevándorlását a Kárpát medencébe. A Magyar Törzsszövetséget meg a muszlimok üldözték el az előző lakhelyükről, ahol nemcsak sátorban laktak. Azért igen hamar építkezésbe tudtak kezdeni a magyarok, nem sátorban lakott mind, ahogy képzeled, csak a vándorlás során. Amúgy a magyarok többségének az egyesülés előtt Tengri vallása volt, ami hasonlatos a keresztény hithez. Egy főisten volt.
@@leventelajos5078We remain Hungarian!!! Period!!!
I traveled in Africa for 6 months. I don't want to state what countries, because my experiences were not so grate. I did meet some very superb people, however the vast majority were quite racist. At one time I was walking with a private local tour guide and a couple of local guys started shouting why a white guy is walking with a black woman. At other times the military or the police were shaking me down for money. There was a lot of disrespect towads me as well. I'm a typical hungarian guy, reserved, quiet and polite. I treat people the way I want to be treated. I prefer Asia and Asians for the above reasons .
sorry about paprika not being hot enough, we don't have scott bonet which I also prefer if I have a chance to eat fufu or palmnut soup. enjoy your stay!
Thank you. If you’re in Budapest, there’s scotch bonnet pepper at Kashmir on the Népszínház street.
@@tewaaandlivingit not living there yet but will soon, so maybe you can send me the recipe for a proper ghanian palmnut soup. although Im not sure if there are places where I could find the rest of the ingredients, like dry fish, goat meat, ocra or fufu. the few times I had it I found it pleasantly exotic☺
Kashmir has the palmnut paste and goat meat as well & a lot of other ingredients. For the recipe please check this woman out on UA-cam - ua-cam.com/video/6l1IBu1jbPk/v-deo.htmlsi=h6AEiLT-P7Xa90e2
@@tewaaandlivingit looks good, I'll try one day, although cowfoot is not my thing. generally, I'm not keen on cay kind of cartledge. thnks.
Stipendium Hungaricum only exists since 2013 but similar scholarships has existed for at least 25 years but probably more. And Sopron has a population of 62k not 12k.
Thanks for the correction.
I'm Hungarian, I remember there were times when I didn't buy a ticket for the trip, how many times I did run away from the inspectors, so they are couldnt punish me. Love your videos guys , thank you for make it !
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Ha-Ha! 😂 The reason of starring a black person in Hungary is only about curious about somebody who is totally different and not seen before often.
1. We live in a free/open democracy just an only ~30years
2. Before hungarians lived in a closed border country under a Communist regime for ~45years after The WWII, so was no any migration in or out
3. Before we had no any colonizing activity during the history. We mostly get mixed with nearby indo-european nations.
So starring is only about your unique and dirrenet appearance. 😊 A natural curiousness, especially in the countryside. In big University cities or in Budapest, The case is more comfortable.
I know It could be uncomfortable to you, but you do not need to fear from us. 😊
I wish you luck and great times here!
The Dutch Republic, now the Netherlands, had contact with North America, South America, South Africa, West Africa, Sri Lanka, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, DECIMA (an artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki), Formosa (Fort Zeelandia, Fort Noord Holland...). We are used to all kinds of people. Jó estét kívánok.
You will find this country perfectly habitable if you respect locals.
Dear Tewaa, if you going visit Komarom, let me know :)
very entertaining, very sweet 🥰
Thank you 🤗
Love the video I want to ask is it possible to extend your admission to another batch even if you have already gotten admission
Heya, thank you🙂I’d suggest you write an email to the school with this query, it’ll be much easier.
as a hungarian im so happy you liked being in our country!
ah and if you want to find more open people leave the big city and visit some of our countrysides.
Nice!!
I'm at the part where you are talking about community,it is a capital city, come to Szeged you will feel community. It is a small country but still in terms of human interactions there are huge difference between East/South vs North/West. Latter is colder, more distant. I love that in Szeged people are very understanding and supporting. But still never compare a 2 million habited capital to a smaller community
Sopron is around 60k population. I hope you enjoy in Hungary.
Hello brother and sister how's business over there?
Go to USA that is the land of business
If you gone to Sopron University that means that I'm your underclassman. ❤
What was your major?
Hey, we didn’t have the option of choosing a major as an international class. We practically did everything, studied business & economics btw.
@@tewaaandlivingit so you were on B&E. Good luck . God bless the economists. Jó szerencsét. Istrn áldja a közgazdászokat.( How the greating goes) 😁
Jó szerencsét!😁, I missed that.
@@tewaaandlivingit SOK szerencsét. "Jó szeretncsét" is strange in Hungarian. Szerencse in own mean good. Not need to add JÓ :D
@@robertkokeny9418ez egy belsős dolog a Soproni egyetemen. Régen a bányászok köszöntek igy régen egymásnak. 1700 as években amikor az egyetemet alapították selmecbányán a tanulók átvették a szokást és amikor az új szakok sorra megjelentek a köszönés és a szokások maradtak. A három testőr írója Alexander Dumas az egyetemen tett látogatásakor halotta az egy mindenkiért mindwnk egyért amit azt egyetemen 1789 óta, a diákkör megalakulása óta használtak. A francia forradalom inspirálta és a diáktanács felvette a szabadság, egyenlőség, testvériség jelmondatot kiegészíteve igazságossággal és bajtársiassággal.
You are nice people and it is great to hear about Hungary by foreigners :D
"Eben koro no no" 😅😅. Asem oo
girl, sopron aint a small town
internationally sure, even compared to budapest its small, everything is small compared to the capital ,but sopron is rlly what we’d consider a larger city
hell the whole country’ population is 10mil😆 a 60k smn city is big
This is very interesting,brings back memories. If I get small money p333, I’m definitely coming for a visit!!!😂😂😂
Please do😂
Welcome in Hungary ❤️
28:00 I love your attitude about racism. Refreshing. In the eyes of the beholder.
Hungary is surrendered by many countries who can to some level understand one another’s language. Hungarian is unique. Language defines major part of cultures . Even those who speaks English to a a good level would not be able to relate to you guys because of the lack of experience with the rest of the world . I was born there lived there until age 19 , now I’m 41 and this has not improved much since I was a young fellow. However despite the difficulty of the language, if you stay, learn it please properly. Hungarians are warm , helpful and willing to be there for you. In some countries it doesn’t take much to break the ice. In Hungary you might need a chainsaw. But there is a way for sure. All the best to both of you !
👍👍👍Isten hozott gyönyörű hazámban.A jó embereket szeretik a Magyarok. Tanuld meg,hogy mi nem nácik vagy fajgyűrölők vagyunk hanem rasszisták. De csak két rasszt ismerünk.Jó embert meg rossz embert. Ha jó ember vagy lehetsz piros,zőld kék vagy fekete,nem számít.De ugyan ez igaz a rossz emberre is.Mindegy milyen színű. A rossz ember az rossz ember. És direkt Magyarul írok,hogy tanulj olvasni is.Ha megtanulnád a nyelvünk,ami tudom nem egyszerű,de akkor szeretnének ebben a hazában igazán.
I often think about Béla the fourth when I face discrimination. People with good will are welcome, simple as this. And in my eyes when someone states, swears that they are Hungarians and they mean it, understand what it means, they are Hungarians.
I'm happy that you have mostly positive experience. My fellow Hungarians can be pretty racist, especially against people of color, although liberal cities like Budapest and Szeged are better.
The community is SOOOO much stronger in villages or even in smaller towns. But I was born and raised in Bp, so I like it this way. I have my privacy. :)
Please make a shop in downtown with imported food! :) I would love to try it.
BKK inspectors are always triggered because they are abused a lot, don't earn much and tbh only those people work there who can't find other job so they are .... cough ... not the most intelligent or kindest ppl.
Most Hungarian ppl are afraid of talking in English and are introverted.
I loved it guys! Yeah we are conservatives for sure because of our past and we are raised this way, it's generational.
The "André Traveler" of Hungary..😅
Ghanaian girls are so beautiful!
Thank youuu
I like you guys😊
Tbh Hungarians can be different in different places,especially if you look at Hungarians in Budapest and at Hungarians outside of Hungary. I live in Serbia as a Hungarian cus where I live was Hungary and we are pretty different from people from Budapest cus of the cultural impact Serbia has on us. Im sure its the case with other Hungarians that are in the same situation.For exemple you guys metioned that they keep things for themselfs,well not here. Especially elderly people,but when Im at a bus stop or smth they always start talking to me ab their whole life. We do keep lots of things to ourselfs,but def more open then people in Budapest. My prarents friends moved to Hungary and they said that thry find ot hard to make friends there cus they keep everything for themselfs,they ask things from you,but avoide saying stuff ab themselfs. (Not saying everyone is like that tho) Its also so funny to me when I tell Hungarians (from Hungary) that Im from Serbia cus they are all like "wow your Hungarian is so good" and Im like "yeaah I am Hungarian actually" (but its kinda awkward when I accidentally start speaking in Serbian to strangers cus Im used to it,for exemple once somebody opened the door for me and I thanked them in Serbian,they were prob confused)
But also the accents and words can be different depending on where you live,like a few villiges from me Hungarians use words I have never heard of in my life,like yk made up word,its very interesting tbh. I have classmates from a bunch of places cus music high schools are not very common and my city happens to have it,so people come to my school from all the parts of voivodeship. We learn ways of saying this from each other and new words from each other all the time.
Szia földi. :Dén már 32 éve itt élek, Pesten is 14 évet ... mindehol otthonosan fogadtak, és rengeteg jó barátom, társaságom volt beutaztam az országoz mád a 90es évekbne úgy ahogy akkoriban a hioakból kevesen tehették meg... és kedvelnek pont azért mert kicsit más magyar vagyok ... Bácskai :D délvidéki félvad balkáni magyar :)
Guys tell the black guy Culture shock addict he's feel that the hungarian dont like black people im happy to hear from you its good country 😊 stay positive
Well 99.99% of the hungarian people have only issues with those coming here for the sole purpose of being a freeloader, everyone else is welcome, so are you.
And try to learn the language, I know it's hard but still :)
Everything is hard until you know it !
@@LEK-we2hh gyáhééééé de bölcs!!!!!!
😎😎😎😎😎👌👌
❤
Welcome : ...
Nekünk , Magyaroknak - nincs bajunk senkivel .
Kivéve, - hogyha..."hátsó szándékkal érkezik !
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Ne hazudj 🧐
@@LEK-we2hh mesélj édes, mesélj!
Tewaa, I think the only reason people stared at you was because you were beautiful. :)
2024.07.15. 20:11
Eszembe jutott egy történet ismerősöm székely és kint volt Austriában akkor még nem beszélt németül és leakartak szólítani egy taxist monták hogy beszéljen nyugotan magyarul megláta a taxist (teljesen fekete volt ez a 90 évek) Ez nem beszél magyarul erre megszólalt nyugotan gyertek magyar országon tanultam
I always stare at black women because they're so beautiful. :D
We discriminate a LOT based upon how you look like in the INSIDE.
I could not care less about appearances, but I definitely judge behavior.
Hey, welcome here! People with positivity are always welcomed! Hungary was always a melting pod of central Europe during its 1,000+ years. Avars, Slavs, Kuns, Puns, Bulgarians, Gipsies (came from India), Germans and so on. That made our women so beautiful and our food culture so rich.
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Ur English hard to understand.
It's still easier then the Scottish or Jamaican accent. I understood everything what they said. C1 speaker here.
Hear enough people with different nationalities speak english and you do not even notice
No its not 🤔
Just stay away from Taxis!
Why would you want to live in Hungary? (I'm Hungarian btw)
Why is there supposed to be a problem then?
It's a beautiful country with great food, beautiful scenery, and architecture, while there are issues like all other countries face nowadays.
No I left in 80. Volt vendegem meg lopott $35G 😡
im sorry 4 u xd
Stay home!Hungary wont be Afrika!
Difficult to understans their English
I havent watched the vid yet. Im at the beginning but let me guess what your experience was. RACI-
I don't mind black people being around here in hungary, enjoy your stay. ❤❤❤
Here my favourite Hungarian poem, me omma used to sing when i was a kid:
Ud rēa, ud sura rēa
Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa
Mu rēa mu sura rēa
Ud ul ningduē pa ēaba
Ud ul ningduē mi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Imšurinna kalammaka ningtab akaba
An kita badabaraaba
Ki anta badasuraaba
Mu namluulu baangaraaba
That's the Epic Of Gilgamesh, zero to do with Hungarian, you pseudoscientific idiot.
@@igorjeecalm down and go study real history not Kazar propaganda by your favourite leader Orban
@@radir1657 Keep ignoring actual science and believe that Sumerians and all great civilizations spoke Hungarian, deluded smurf.
Bro take your meds.
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I’m hungry 😢
Why👀
I remember when you said you were going to defer your course and I was like girl whatchu you doing😮. There norrr jakpa 😅
I remember paa😂🫢 time really flies
Those who leave you lol
@@tewaaandlivingityeah its really funny...we dont heard this for 10000 times...you should never shot this joke to Hungarian...
Go home
I’m home.
Nem lőtték ki magukat a bioszférából, a kanapéjukon ülnek!😂
ok edgelord
@@tewaaandlivingit yes, indeed, dear! You're home here and I'm happy for you. Thanks for this video!
They are home in Hungary. Go you home...
Did you learn to speak the language, that would be impressive! Loved your experience!
Thank you🙂I cannot speak fluently, but enough to get me around for sure.
@@tewaaandlivingit more kocsma, pálink, piac, falu, bográcsozás ...
seek the native folks ... do not close yourself in the Budapest ...