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[nulbyte]

Not GP, and not expressing agreement or disagreement with GP, but those of us of Hungarian descent make up less than 1% of the population nationally according to 2018 census estimates, and 1% or less of the population throughout much of the Midwest according to data from the American Community Survey as recent as 2019.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Americans

[selimthegrim → nulbyte]

I am not disagreeing with him, but Cleveland (where I grew up) and Pittsburgh nearby had vibrant Hungarian communities.

[jltsiren → selimthegrim]

I think the issue is the tendency to group "X" and "Americans with X ancestry" together. I can't speak for Hungarians, but someone born to Finnish parents in the US is culturally not Finnish, if they have lived their entire life in the US. Their ancestry may be Finnish, but they have missed all the shared experiences and key events that have shaped recent Finnish culture.

[inglor_cz → jltsiren]

Oh, definitely.

I am half-Bulgarian, but for all practical purposes I am a Czech, though none of my grandparents actually were (the rest were Slovak).