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So do 3rd world countries. It's all fun and games in Budapest, until you go around in villages where people walk barefoot. Last time i've been there I thought a
by ossworkerrights 7y ago
So do 3rd world countries. It's all fun and games in Budapest, until you go around in villages where people walk barefoot. Last time i've been there I thought about taking pictures as the nationalist government of hungary does its best to hide it. But the issue is not that, the thing is it does have an opportunity to develop into something green, as do most east EU countries.
- loriverkutya 7y agoYeah, I grown up in a village at the north-eastern (the least developed part of the country) border with 2500 people living there. My first 10 years was during socialism. Even my “underdeveloped” village has now 24/7 electricity, water, sewer system, gas pipelines for heating, CATV and ADSL internet. So please stop try to prove me, that it is a 3rd world country.
- ossworkerrights 7y agoHow many of these villages, once you leave the bubble, have roma people living in mud-homes and other vulnerable people that you so cleverly chose to ignore, and claim the everything is fine?
- saiya-jin 7y agoRoma people are a bit special, they live on the edge of society and try hard to not integrate (prevalent alcoholism, other addictions and frequent incest certainly don't help). We can send 1000 Roma people into NY Central park and bam! you have barefoot kids running all around Manhattan 24/7 picking trash cans. That doesn't suddenly make US a 3rd world country, does it.
- ossworkerrights 7y agoNice, so the solution in Hungary is segregation. I thought it was a developed country. Love to expose the true side of east europeans who claim "our countries are just as good, i don't know why people label us this and that". Enjoy your day, point proven.
- dang 7y agoFlamewar comments like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how bad or provocative other comments have been. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.
- tremon 7y agoThat's like judging the development level of the US by examining the Amish.
- ptaipale 7y agoBTW I hope you realise that the original meaning of "3rd world country" included extremely rich countries like Sweden and Switzerland - basically, all countries not aligned with "1st world" (United States and Western NATO countries) and "2nd world" (Soviet block) where Hungary was. Hungary is not as rich as e.g. Germany, but it's certainly not a backward country; it has indigenous culture that runs universities and is comfortably in the "Very high HDI" bracket for human development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...