I have a particular fondness for Hungary because I spent a formative time studying there.
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@SteveBellovin @cigitalgem @shriramk @mattblaze oh ha ha of course!
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@shriramk I didn't know you did Budapest Semesters! What an experience
@j2kun Did you?
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@shriramk damn that's a small number. And you simultaneously improved mine. Thank you for the reveal.
Hey @SteveBellovin and @mattblaze and @peterhoneyman your Erdos number may have just improved in my measurable universe
@cigitalgem Good lord, I didn't *write* anything with him! This is as close as I got!
But my Erdős number happens to be 3, I think, which happens to also be my Gates (as in Bill Gates) number.
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Also, due to its singular language, Hungary had never been a particularly diverse country. I remember very well how my Jewish friend and brown self would get *stared at, hard* in public places. What I saw in subsequent decades (eg, Jobbik) was a very obvious extension of what I'd experienced. ↵
@shriramk I mean, Hungary was 5% Jewish before WW2. Like elsewhere in Europe, it's not that Hungary was never diverse so much as that it became monocultural through genocide and ethnic cleansings that happened within living memory.
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