Post #1570627

2026-04-13 12:37 UTC

@jack @Alon I'm well aware. But Hungary never had the kind of global diversity that other small countries like Portugal, say, experienced, because they were imperialists. And a lot of Hungarian Jews were "assimilated", so culturally, not really that different. ↵

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@shriramk@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 12:41

@jack @Alon In Balatonfüred, a town by lake Balaton, there's a lovely grove of trees, each planted by/in memory of the "Martians". Of course labeled by their Hungarian names ("WIGNER Jenő", etc.). I assume there are many more memorials to them now, but this one really stood out in my memory from back then.

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@Alon@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 14:56

@shriramk @jack Evidently, they were different enough for Hórthy to pass Nürnberg-style laws on his own accord. And Hungary was plenty imperialist on its own, it was just on land and not by sea as with Portugal and Spain. In Portugal, as it is, there wasn't much racial diversity until very recently - the black population was by modern standards very low (10% in Lisbon in 1500, much lower elsewhere) and assimilated with the generations after manumission, and immigration went the other way.

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