Comments by "buzzhawk" (@buzzhawk) on "Explained: the ‘Hungarians’ in Romania marching for more independence" video.

  1. United Europe Yeah, and? Hungary was too. Don't stick your nose where it's not your business and you have no idea what you're talking about. They were more than half since the first censuses recorded the population by ethnicity (and even before that by various estimates and historical sources) censuses which were notorious for artificially inflating Hungarian numbers by counting Jewish people as ethnic Hungarians. Don't bring up irrelevant historical mumbo jumbo to justify Hungarian fashy claims. It makes no sense now that Transylvania should go to Hungary, with over 70% of the people there being ethnic Romanians, and Hungarians making up 18% (and falling) of the population, all thanks to a census from 1910.
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  2. United Europe Now you're resorting to silly mind games. Your example is more fit for London. It all starts with the individuals: if an important number of them would identify as Pakistanis, then they should be allowed to do so, and enabled to have all the things they wish for Pakistani community life, like education in their own language, the freedom to worship, representation, etc. If a part of the individuals of Pakistani background don't wish to identify as Pakistani, then it's just as good. It doesn't mean that London would belong to Pakistan, it would only mean that it would reflect the people living there. Transylvania has never been really Hungarian land, since Hungarians have almost always been a minority and Romanians a majority without any sort of rights for 550 years, therefore quite multicultural, with Germans and Szeklers also being prominent. It has been Hungarian, Ottoman, Romanian and Habsburg, since 1570 enjoying semi-independence and not being part of Hungary.
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  3. United Europe It's true, actually. Nothing was taken forcefully, it's just the majority nation earning the right to live as proper citizens in their own land. Now go cry yourself to sleep and rub Hitler's phallic altar , maybe your wish will come true someday.
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  4. Rudolf Nemeth But not present Hungarian territory.
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  5. BOBBY BVI Lol, they wouldn't like it there. Szeklerland, where the most vocal autonomism comes from, is a dirt poor, marginal area. Nothing of notice really going on. As you can see in the video, only old people stay. Autonomy is not really feasible either, since Szeklerland (where the Hungarian minority is most compact) is not very productive and can't sustain itself, while in the rest of Transylvania the vast majority don't want any autonomy.
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