Some things of a new culture can bother us expats, but I think we can learn and this is a summary of what I learn from Hungarians.
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What Hungarian people are like (Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2
This is an article about hungarian people, if you did not yet read part 1, here is the link: What Hungarian people are like (Part 1)
Here I continue with part 2:
Open and warm
At this point of the relationship, friendship, they will be very open and very warm. They will trust you many personal things that some good friends of yours in your home country would have never even thought about telling you. Do not be surprised, they are only reserved at the beginning, but when they consider you their friend, they will express their feelings openly and straightforwardly. […]
What Hungarian people are like (Part 3)
Welcome to Part 3
Pessimism
Let’s assume that the same person already studied everything one or two days before the exam, so what is left is spent with practice or simulating the exam. Even like that, a Hungarian will think “I will be nervous and I will do everything wrong”. I come back now to history and soccer. The common way of thinking is: “if we failed in the last 20 years, we will fail this time too”. They apply this mindset to their daily life. My thinking is that if you fail many times, you learn, you improve and over time, you will do it better until perhaps winning. […]
What Hungarian people are like (Part 1)
The 9th of February of 2016 I published my first post in this blog. Ever since I have written more than 80 posts, all in my mother tongue Spanish, except for two written in Hungarian. A couple of times, when I shared some of my posts in my personal Facebook account, hungarian friends of mine asked me to translate them to Hungarian or at least to English. That time has arrived. After 2 years and a half, here is my first post in English.
My 2 hungarian posts:
Mennyit tudsz Panamáról? […]
