There is a millenary joke in this country. A Hungarian asks a Romanian about the first people in the geographical area:

 Cu siguranta noi, romanii (in Romanian: Off course we were!). But the Hungarian did not accept that.

Than the Romanian asks How was that suppose to be and the Hungarian tells the story: Once upon a time, with many more centuries ago, some Hungarians came and jumps off their horses near a wonderful river. But when they can’t go on because somebody have stolen their horses. In this moment, the Romanian has got a big smile in his face: Did you see? We were the first inhabitants in the area!!!

There is no other community in the country to make a really fighting story; there are gypsies, indeed, but no one consider them as a team, a community. The gypsies are individuals and everybody knows that. There are some Germans in the West or some Russians in the East but there is something else. If you still need another explanation, let’s say you can’t fight somebody you didn’t really know. So there is a scrolling centuries behind with minority tensions and sometimes big street fights. Further more, everybody knows the Romanians and the Hungarians have an excellent relationship. There is a time in the past when (well, quarter of) the Romanian territory was part of the Big Hungary and there is something more then that: In the beginning of the XIV th Century, the Hungarian capital was Timisoara, the most important city of Romania in our days (except the capital City Bucharest of course...)

Most of Hungarians are living now in Transylvania and some reports suggesting that the only wish they have is the recognition of the past. Pretty nice: even they are dealing with an unknown or unwritten history to be...

They have traditions and nobody cares... When the politicians are falling asleep, they come up with a strange story about their neighbors and the irredentists are just right there. Otherwise... they can eat each other sausages and they can, of course, drink each other wine, share the same women; everybody can drive a Romanian Dacia or a Hungarian made Suzuki. There is a modern history about: it seems like the cars are, now, what the horses where in the past. Can you see the flicker?

Lets forget about history and come on jump directly in the recent time’s pool. Do you actually know what the Romanians feels about the Hungarians? Let’s have a short brief:

 The Hungarians asks for many independent rights witch, if approved, puts them in a better position then the Romanians in their own country (this is 50/50, depends on many other issues);

On the other hand, this is what the Hungarians feels about their relatives:

 The Hungarians are discriminated (that’s not true);

There is some other thoughts (working on every part of the debate) whatever you will do, breaks me off! It is a sort of American Dream: "Do whatever you need to do just don’t enter my private land of dreaming or acting"). End of story.

You know... everybody make his own perception and you can hardly find someone to share. Everybody knows better than anybody so... No news is good news. Than the police is watching around.