[anovikov]

In my perception (i come from Soviet Union), the most "East European" Eastern European country is Slovakia. When someone says "Eastern Europe" that's what comes to my mind. Czechia is too rich and too liberal, Poland is too religious and too conservative, Romania has too many issues with minorities and simply does not constitute a single picture (different parts of country look like different continents), Serbia is hopelessly stuck in the past and developed a hermit mentality, Hungary is a true oddball in every sense of it, but mainly is that it has it's own imperial past - not one of it's occupiers - so does not match the humble, hardworking and simple "East European" image.

[ChuckNorris89]

>Romania has too many issues with minorities

What kind of issues and which minorities?

[bonzini]

Roma (also present in Slovakia and Hungary) and Hungarians mostly.

[ChuckNorris89]

What are the issue with Hungarians in Romania? Besides political FUD.

[oblio]

> also present in Slovakia and Hungary

And Bulgaria, and Serbia, ...

[bonzini]

Yeah just listing the countries from the grand-parent comment. Their presence covers a lot of European countries (all the way to Italy and Spain in the west) kind of by definition, since they're a nomad population.

[anovikov]

I think that will be politically incorrect to discuss in detail and will drive us way into downvoting territory...

[ChuckNorris89]

Why? GP made some pretty bold claims on some nationalities("Romania has too many issues with minorities").

I expect some clarifications for those claims on what those issues are, so I can tell if knows what he's talking about and got right info from reputable sources or if he's just puling stuff out of his ass based on stereotypes and FUD he read on the internet.

Without any details or sources, such comments should be flagged.

[ssizn]

And if you put details and sources you get flagged too. It’s a waste of time to discuss this kind of stuff.

[mistrial9]

armchair reader here - but I have 100 year old demographic information from the Hungarian region, in an article about language history. Each Hungarian province sub-division is split between four (or more) language groups - and the splits are quite uneven. Many of those groups had mass conflicts over the last thousand years.