Hey guys, we are having a discussion in r/Latvia, would you mind clarifying if such thing would be acceptable in Romania?
Hey guys, we are having a discussion in r/Latvia, would you mind clarifying if such thing would be acceptable in Romania?
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You live in a country, you play by the rules of that country. There isn’t any excuse for you to not speak the language of the country you live in. You are born here and expect to have the same benefits (for example to be treated in a Romanian hospital for free when you have an emergency) but not speak/ identify yourself as a romanian? Well that’s a problem.
Because in the long run it will only cause instability, discrimination, racism (on both sides).
If what exactly would be acceptable?
If you’re talking about Hungarians studying in Hungarian they already do in the areas with large minority populations. The public administration in those areas also speak Hungarian.
As long as you live in a foreign country, you either learn to speak the official language of the country, or if you don’t, at least don’t expect anyone to learn yours. The people living in Hungarian predominant regions seem to be very stubborn when it comes to learning Romanian, there have been many cases where they would demand autonomy from the state. There has also been a few cases when Hungarians living in the earlier mentioned regions, who work in stores, refused to serve their customers unless they spoke Hungarian. As a conclusion, no, such behavior is not tolerated in Romania, although Romanians seem to be very hospitable when it comes to foreigners visiting the country.
Well Romania does have one of the most extensively protecting legislations in EU in regart to minorities’ rights. And yes, hungarians and all other significant minorities do have the right to be taught in their own language, to use it in relation to the public administration, they habe the right to be admitted in universities on separate grounds etc… I think Romanians have learnt to be tollerant towards all those comunities in general, all but one, the Rromani.
Demand is the wrong word there. Magyars may be serviced in Magyar in regions where their presence is high and not only, but there isn’t any law demanding that. It mostly comes down to common sense, if you are 100% romanian living in a Magyar dominant region, you will learn Magyar as well, not because you must, but because it’s the sensible thing to do. However state officials and public services should still be able to serve you in the country’s official language. As a minority, you adapt to the majority, much like Magyars living in mostly Romanians regions should speak romanian, as it is the sensible thing to do.
You can get mad all you want, but as long as you are a minority you adapt, you do not get to demand anything.
What have you started :)))
Most of the comments here saying Romanian Magyars should do this or that are from people that live in outside of Transylvania and don’t know any Magyars… What Liviuam2 said is de facto what is happening in Transylvania. The other opinions expressed here are from Romanians that live outside of the carpathian arc and never lived in a mixed community.
That being told… The government of România does offer a lot of rights to the Hungarian minority, falling short just on full governance autonomy in the regions where they are in majority, which is somewhat understandable considering that the current government of Hungary would use that as an opportunity to influence Romania’s internal affairs. Also there are other historical reasons why this wouldn’t be acceptable for now.
What do you mean by ‘acceptable’?
Look, in any region of Romania, even in the deepest regions(where hungarians are 95%) every romanian is served in romanian language!
But as a hungarian, you must speak romanian to be served in like 95% of country.
Just in their few zones when they are 80-90% (and the one that serve is hungarian too) they can be served in hungarian.
But hungarians are 6% of population, not 25% how wrong is said in the post
I mean in the places where the Hungarians are a majority I think it’s important that they’re able to use their native language. However, I think it’s still important they know the official language of the country, at least to a somewhat conversational level, considering that they may not be using on a daily basis.
I think that the Romanians living in areas with many Hungarians also understand some Hungarian, but it would be nice if this sort of multilingualism was actually promoted.
I mean the Székelys aren’t the only Hungarian speaking minority in Romania. There’s also the Csángós in the Moldavia region (east of Carpathians), who are usually bilingual, and unfortunately sometimes monolingual in Romanian, which could lead to an old Hungarian dialect disappearing. It’s true that there’s fewer of them, and they’re not as concentrated in a certain place as the Székelys, but they’re not as stubborn about also speaking Romanian.
depends on the history and animosity between countries. romanians in serbia are treated ok, romanians in transnistria not so much, even though it was romanian land