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Orbán: Europe Locked in ‘Culture War’, But ‘Cultural Peace’ Reigns in Hungary
breitbart ^ | 7 Oct 2018 | Victoria Friedman

Posted on 10/08/2018 1:29:21 PM PDT by aquila48

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that the “culture war” is not being fought on Hungary, but it being fought in Europe which is succumbing to a “creeping” cultural surrender.

Addressing the audience at a ceremony to celebrate the revamp of the Budai Vigadó, which houses the country’s heritage museum, Prime Minister Orbán remarked that though he “hear[d] that there’s a culture war going on in Hungary”, he believes the central European country is rather existing in a state of “culture peace”.

The Hungarian leader warned of a “creeping pan-European cultural self-renunciation”, and argued that if the continent’s cultural foundations disappeared, Europe would “collapse like a house of cards”.

And while Europeans and Hungarians respect other cultures, he vowed that “no-one can force us to take this as the relinquishment of our own culture and submission to another culture.”

“So we’ll stand up and declare who we are and our beliefs about God, the homeland, and family, and the impact Hungarians believe this has on European life,” he added.

The popular conservative statesman, who won his third consecutive term in office in April with a parliamentary supermajority, pledged earlier in the year to enact a “major family policy action plan” to make the country family-friendly and support Hungarians to have children — rather than follow the lead of Western European nations that have welcomed mass migration to solve the supposed demographic time bomb of an ageing Europe.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budaivigado; culture; europe; europeanunion; hijrah; hungary; nato; orban; victoriafriedman; viktororban; wheresberlinfreeper
This guy not only gets it but is not afraid of shouting it from the rooftop! Hungary and most of eastern Europe is an island of sanity in this otherwise insane world.
1 posted on 10/08/2018 1:29:21 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

God Bless Hungary!


2 posted on 10/08/2018 1:33:48 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: aquila48

I love my Hungarian brothers and sisters!


3 posted on 10/08/2018 1:35:12 PM PDT by Shark24
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To: onedoug

And God Bless Prime Minister Viktor Orbán !


4 posted on 10/08/2018 1:44:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: aquila48

My wife and I visited Hungary just after the demise of the Soviet empire. It was clear even then that the Hungarians had trod a different more independent path than the other eastern European countries. They were openly disdainful of the Russians and their neighbors in conversations we had. Perhaps it is their language which is unique and related only distantly to Estonian and Finnish. And they are proud of their uniqueness and want to protect it. One has to respect that.


5 posted on 10/08/2018 1:48:51 PM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: JeanLM

““Our culture shows us who we were and who we are”, the Prime Minister said, referring to “strength which forges the inhabitants of a country into a nation, and the members of a nation into a community”. He said that these must be the foundations for the national curriculum currently in preparation, and also the entire Hungarian school system.”

He understands the importance of teaching kids in school to learn and respect their own culture.

We used to do that, too, and our country was much more unified. Today instead the multicults have taken over our schools and their main goal is to trash our culture.

No wonder we are so divided!


6 posted on 10/08/2018 1:58:53 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

I believe the world would be a substantially lesser place without the various European cultures. Further, muslims will never integrate into those cultures, which will ultimately be turned into the same sh#tholes as the muslim left.

Someone tell me what is wrong with having a strong, cohesive culture?

Angela Merkel & her like-minded ilk are traitors to their respective countries.


7 posted on 10/08/2018 2:00:00 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: aquila48

West-Europeans have been known to migrate to Eastern Europe.


8 posted on 10/08/2018 2:05:33 PM PDT by 353FMG
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Betting that there have been no mass murders by muzzies in Hungary.


9 posted on 10/08/2018 2:10:48 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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Lefties would have us believe that Patriotism is Chauvinism and they smear patriots accordingly.

On the other hand, how can you appreciate any culture if you have nothing but disdain for your own?

Leftists only wants to destroy, not create.

10 posted on 10/08/2018 2:37:07 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Hungary

Saved western civilization 500 years ago

Saving it today

The more things change....

11 posted on 10/08/2018 3:25:51 PM PDT by Qatar-6
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To: aquila48

Or an sounds great... but Oban tastes AMAZING!


12 posted on 10/08/2018 10:59:29 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama was slapping on all those police agencies.)
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To: aquila48

I’ve been to Budapescht (as they call it). It is FAR from a lily-white city, lots of minorities, yet still one culture.

Why, because the minorities there are there LEGALLY. There is no entity in government trying to bring down their culture, as is the case in the US, Canada, and Western Europe.


13 posted on 10/08/2018 11:58:22 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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