THE CURRENT VITALITY OF THE ROMANIAN COMMUNITY LIVING IN HUNGARY
THE CURRENT VITALITY OF THE ROMANIAN COMMUNITY LIVING IN HUNGARY

Summary/Abstract: One of the Romanian communities living abroad is the one in Hungary. Separated from the Transylvanian Romanians in 1920, though it voted for union with the Kingdom of Romania. The small Romanian community faced then as it does now a serious problem in its own history – the lack of the necessary institutions, which would assure and guard its identity. Without such institutions and the support of the mother country, the small cultural and ethnic enclave is losing its life force with each passing day. The Romanian community from Hungary is feeling abandoned and alone, being forced to confront the onslaught of the host state, and the attempts thereof to undermine the continued existence of the small Romanian community. Among the policies of dissolutions that the Hungarian state is using against these Romanians native to Hungary, the following can be found: the counter-selection of community leaders, the management of self-perception through the falsification of censuses, and the cutting off of access to Romanian-language education at the secondary and higher levels of study. These policies are not only aimed at the Romanian community. Their ulterior gain is to obtain new privileges for the Hungarian community in Romania.

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