Coming at the end of a factual article presenting so much geography and history it was jarring to read the concluding sentences "feeling Hungarian is a bit too painful given the current size of the country. Feeling European corresponds better to its grandiose history of a big Central European power". What is the evidence for this? I can …
Coming at the end of a factual article presenting so much geography and history it was jarring to read the concluding sentences "feeling Hungarian is a bit too painful given the current size of the country. Feeling European corresponds better to its grandiose history of a big Central European power". What is the evidence for this? I can think of a number of psycho-social hypotheses are at least as "persuasive".
No thanks. I didn't mean to say that I have better psychological speculations to offer than you, only that such speculation in the absence of supporting evidence is easy to do and unconvincing. That's why I thought these sentences in your essay were so strikingly different in character from the rest.
Coming at the end of a factual article presenting so much geography and history it was jarring to read the concluding sentences "feeling Hungarian is a bit too painful given the current size of the country. Feeling European corresponds better to its grandiose history of a big Central European power". What is the evidence for this? I can think of a number of psycho-social hypotheses are at least as "persuasive".
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No thanks. I didn't mean to say that I have better psychological speculations to offer than you, only that such speculation in the absence of supporting evidence is easy to do and unconvincing. That's why I thought these sentences in your essay were so strikingly different in character from the rest.