Bocskai Radio declares itself the “Voice of Hungary,” at station WJCU in Cleveland, Ohio. It operates on the campus of John Carroll University, a small Catholic university in the Jesuit tradition. Bocskai Radio’s weekend Hungarian language program can be heard everywhere in Cuyahoga County, an area with one of the highest concentrations of Hungarian Americans in the US.
Bocskai Radio is generously supported by The Hungary Initiatives Foundation which was established with Hungarian taxpayer’s money. (Read more here.) “From the very beginning Bocskai Radio has strived to serve and address the Cleveland area Hungarian population via its beautiful native language by providing brief but spectacular news accounts about our homeland and our fabulous Hungarian literature and music.”
In addition to the radio program, Bocskai Radio also maintains a Hungarian and English language website, a Facebook page. The station also has a group of volunteers and lately they host Hungarian-government-paid activists from Budapest who spend nine months at Bocskai Radio as part of the so called Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Program.
I’m reading one of the English language articles on the website entitled, “Why marry a Hungarian woman?” The author is news editor Mr. Loránd Csibi.
“Hungarian women are beautiful, talented and smart” Csibi writes. Also “Hungary never had a feminist movement because women were always respected,” and as a direct result of this, “they never lost their femininity and believe it to be ‘powerful’ to look, act and walk like a real woman.”
Although not as well known in the US, Hungarian women are very popular in Europe, especially in Germany, “as being the most beautiful and intelligent women in the world,” continues Csibi. German men are well aware of this fact and travel to Hungary to find wives. The article also quotes their own “scientific” finding, “Based on our studies, German men lack desire for German women for the same reason American men lack desire for their counterparts: lack of femininity.” Hungarian women are also, “on average, much thinner and healthier than Americans or Germans.” This adds to the “treasured spouse effect.”
I pinch myself, I cannot believe what I read.
The article goes on…”Unlike American or Russian women, Hungarian women generally choose their mates based not on shallow characteristics like money or appearance, but rather on personality, intelligence and health.” It continues: “Don’t be surprised to find your Hungarian wife trotting around the house in the nude or her wanting to have a serious kiss in public! They generally prefer to wear classy but sexy clothes and most like to wear high-heels in public rather than shoes or sandals. Tight jeans are catching on but most still prefer short skirts or elegant sun dresses.”
The Hungarian wife is trotting around the house in the nude?
Having a Hungarian-language radio program and bringing Hungarian literature and music to local communities is commendable. But I find it appalling that a college radio station runs a sexist article promoting Hungarian women for American men. It is distasteful and somewhat disturbing.
BTW, another “gem” on the website is: “How to piss off a Hungarian“.
Read the entire article by clicking “Why marry a Hungarian woman?”
György Lázár