Hungary

Made by: Réka Marincsák15.April.2010

Table of contents• Introduction

•Geography, people, government, economy

•Education

•Cultural conflicts in Hungary

•What is a „Hungarikum” ?

Background•Hungary became a Christian kingdom in A.D.

1000 •Part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire•Under communist rule•„ Goulash Communism”•1990 initiated a free market economy•1999: joined NATO •2004: EU

Geography• Location: East-Central Europe

• Climate: temperate; humid winters; warm summers

• Elevation extremes: lowest point: Tisza River 78 m, highest point: Kékes 1,014 m

• Natural resources: bauxite, coal, natural gas, fertile soils, arable land

People• Population: 9.905.596 (July 2009 est.)

• Population growth: -0.257% (2009 est.)

• The age pyramid of the Hungarian population is among the most irregular ones in Europe

• Urbanization: urban population: 68% of total population rate: -0.257% (2009 est.)

• Ethnic groups: Hungarian 92.3%, Roma 5%, other or unknown 3%

• Religions: Roman Catholic 51.9%, Calvinist 15.9%, Lutheran 3%, Greek Catholic 2.6%, other Christian 1%, other or unspecified 11.1%, unaffiliated 14.5%

Education

• The official language of instruction is Hungarian, but a number of ethnic and national minorities (e.g. German, Romanian, Slovene, Serb and Croatian) have minority educational institutions with their own languages

• The general phase of education lasts until the age of 16 in Hungary's education system

Organization of the educational system•Pre-Primary education

•Primary education

•Secondary education

•Higher education

Actual politics•Parlamentary elections were held on 11 April 2010•6. election after the end of communism•Fidesz (Hungarian Civic Union) won the absolute

majority of seats(53%) enough to form a government on its own

•New prime minister: Viktor Orban•MSZP(Hungarian Socialist Party): 7,25%

Jobbik(Movement for a better Hungary):6,74% LMP(Politics can be different):1,3%

•Radical nacionalist party: Jobbik

•Railed against Gypsy crime and Jews

•Has launched a campaign against what it refers to as "Roma crime."

•People are afraid of the radicalism and racism

Cultural conflicts in HungaryConflict between Hungary and Slovakia

•Biggest problem: different historical conception (Treaty of Trianon,signed in Versailles,1920)

• spent 1000 years together •ethnic Hungarians make up 10 percent of

Slovakia's population of 5.4 million•extremist groups in Hungary, who want to set

back the old, historical, “Greater Hungary”

Conflict between hungarian and roma people•Rising ethnic tensions are a huge problem, which

getting worse•The segregation is more bigger in the bigger

settlements •There is a living separation in almost every

settlement•The separation depends on the number of the

habitants + construction of the settlement

The characteristics of the parts of Hungary

•South- Transdanubium: living together (hungarian and roma people)

•Central and eastern Hungary: living separation

HungaricumA consumer good or other product linked with Hungarian

production culture and knowledge, with the traditions of the generations of people living here, and they can only be produced in Hungary

•Tokaji aszú (wine)•Túró rudi•Paprika (from Kalocsa and Szeged)•Unicum•Pálinka•Rubiks cube

•Túró rudiCottage cheese bar covered with chocolateVery popular in HungaryOne of the first, own hungarian milk-dessert

•PálinkaTraditional hungarian fruit brandy, made from:

plums, pears or apricotVery strong, it’s alcohol content is about 50-55 %Types of pálinka: kisüsti(small pot), érlelt(aged),

ó(old), ágyas(bedside), törköly(grape palinka)A popular saying in Hungary says: „what can be

used to prepare jam can also be used to produce pálinka”

Rubiks cube

• 3-D mechanical puzzle, invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture: Ernö Rubik

• In 2009, 350 million cubes have sold worldwide• In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered

by nine stickers, among six colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow)

• For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour

•Budapest by night

•The chain bridge

•Lake Balaton

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