Hunglish.orgHungary is more progressive than one American thinks, and yes, Hungarians do drive cars for the most part and don't drive mule carts.
Written by Scott Savoie
People in the US are amazed that I live in Hungary. It’s a mystery to them why anyone would live here. I think many Americans have an image of Hungary as being somehow backwards.
I think most Americans would be amazed at how tech-savvy and progressive today’s Hungary is.
They might also be surprised about how backward it isn’t.
Someone in the US once asked me if they have cars in Hungary.Seriously.
I was like, "Dude, they make cars in Hungary.” They make cars people actually buy (which is more than you can say for Detroit of late). Did he suppose Hungarians all drove around with mule carts? Oxen? Rickshaws? I really don’t know.
Most Hungarians seem up to date gadget-wise. Smart phones and iPods are becoming the rule rather than exception. Seems everyone else has one.
Personally, I am hopelessly out of date technologically speaking. I do have a cell phone, but it is made of wood.
I don’t have a very good home entertainment system myself and am constantly baffled when I see other people’s collections of remote control devices: I always use the wrong one, press the wrong buttons, and the next thing I know I am usually getting error messages in, like, German, saying there is kein Signal, which I know is nicht güt but I don’t know much Deutsch and I never know which combinations of buttons to press to make it all work in concert again.
Oddly, children understand technology instinctively. Gut für sie!
It all makes me want to kick back and listen to some Seals & Crofts on my 8-track cassette player.