Felelősség és törvény

Responsability and Law

Bodó, Barna

Kovács Kiss, Gyöngy

Egyed, Emese

Ilyés, Szilárd-Zoltán

Kerekes, György

Kovács, András

Szász, Alpár Zoltán

Tánczos, Vilmos

Veress, Károly

Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület

2013-01-23T07:32:18Z

2013-01-23T07:32:18Z

2003

2003

státustörvény

anyaország

kisebbség

támogatás

kérdőív

magyar igazolvány

This paper analyses the reception by ethnic Romanians of a recent piece of Hungarian legislation, the Status Law (státustörvény). The research project reported herein was prompted by a survey carried out by Metro Media Transilvania (MMT), one of Romania’s leading polling institutions. Our intention was to check whether Romanians were as inimical to the law as this poll indicated. My team of the Diaspora Foundation, Temesvár/Timiş oara, set out with the working hypothesis that the percentage of rejection (89.6%) published by MMT reflects a media campaign that fiercely attacked the la w (and possibly also tendentious question-wording). Our challenge was based on a socio-psychological insight: (inte r)ethnic coexistence leads to reciprocal empathy and understanding. The present survey used a stratified sample including counties with varying percentages of ethnic Hungarian population and targeted attitudes regarding a series of topics such as nation and kin minorities, the responsibility of the kin state towards its minorities, standards and models of minority protection, minority ID cards as well as Romanian-Hungarian relations. Our main substantive findings are rather pessimistic and can be grouped as follows. First, ethnic Romanians are poorly informed with regard to the international protection of minorities. They have little knowledge of the extant Romanian ‘status law’ (Law no. 150/1998) and of the contents of the Hungarian ‘law of benefits’ (kedvezménytörvény). Consequently, their rejection is not an informed opinion, but an induced reflex. Second, given the week identification of the Romanian population with their ethnic nationals, who live abroad, as well as the emphasis put on the territorial principle as a criterion of identification in Romania, it is no surprise that the nominal ethnic group does not comprehend that Hungarians identify themselves on an ethnocultural basis. However, Romanians are tolerant and seemingly ready to accept that, Hungarians do not use the political nation model and prefer the ethnocultural nation model.

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1453-0961

http://hdl.handle.net/10598/25689

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