Ad hoc, I see you live in a majority Hungarian district within Romania. Could I trouble you with my curiousity about how people there deal with the ethnic/linguistic divide? (Sorry if you've already commented on these issues on here, in which case it would be great if someone could give me a pointer to where to find the old thread). Questions that occurred to me include:
- is there a lot of tension between the majority H and minority R local communities?
- is there tension around the constitutional settlement for the region in terms of autonomy, devolved powers etc?
- is there a lot of language war twattery of the kind which plagues Belgium?
- are there parallel Romanian-speaking and Hungarian-speaking facilities such as schools etc?
- and, if this isn't too directly personal, are you fluent yourself in both of those languages?
I'm interested in how it compares with the South Tyrol, where a friend of mine has lived with his family for over a decade now (in an almost entirely German-speaking village).
- is there a lot of tension between the majority H and minority R local communities?
- is there tension around the constitutional settlement for the region in terms of autonomy, devolved powers etc?
- is there a lot of language war twattery of the kind which plagues Belgium?
- are there parallel Romanian-speaking and Hungarian-speaking facilities such as schools etc?
- and, if this isn't too directly personal, are you fluent yourself in both of those languages?
I'm interested in how it compares with the South Tyrol, where a friend of mine has lived with his family for over a decade now (in an almost entirely German-speaking village).
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