What does it mean to be Hungarian when living in New York ?
That was the topic of a Hungarian documentary on our national sat channel Duna TV .

Old couple left Hungary 25 years ago :

( speaking broken Hungarian )
We do not miss Hungary at all .We were so much fed up with that country !I felt like home at once here in NY !

Middle aged man with a little toddler

I came because i was fed up with the situation ! if you work a lot in the USA you will have a lots of money ! If you work hard in Hungary you will die early !
People in Hungary are jealous ,backward and everything so predictable ! Here everything is new and modern and life is full of surprise !
( then he is singing for his toddler a Hungarian song who is dancing happily )Then he goes on :
Do you think we are happy here ! (Then suddenly his eyes are gleaming with tears )
How many times I ask myself what I am doing here living at the edge of the black slum .
What can I do ?

Smiling bold guy at the central park

i do not remember his words well - but I remember his Hungarian was perfect and he told nothing bad about Hungary except the bad economic situation he mentioned

Teenagers at the top of the Empire State building

It is in Hungary where we wish to live . Where life is natural .Budapest is the city we want in stead of New York . Where you can meet people we know - where we have our buddies where we just take a tram or bus and find ourselves in the deep forest .
Here in New York - all is about money . Most people probably do not have normal social life . Central park - it is so artificial compared to Buda hills !


Sting - the pop singer message to the Hungarians
You can travel nowadays anywhere in the world . So go and see the world for 2 years . Then return ! You got a charming city Budapest !


I was sooo happy to see that the younger generation does not look down at his own homeland ! It was food for my soul ! And those who left before and speak broken Hungarian with full of disdain towards their own country I say : time has changed - you used to act as half -gods when visiting Hungary .When telling stories to people who were not allowed to leave the country .Nowadays you became so passe so ridiculous ! Wake up !