{"id":3357,"date":"2012-07-10T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2012-07-10T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T19:33:59","slug":"cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarki.hu\/hu\/news\/2012\/kitekint\/20120709_magyaroke.html\">recent survey<\/a>, Hungarians believe they are a minority or threatened majority in their own country. They believe that Hungarians represent only 46-58% of the country&#8217;s population, with the rest being mostly Roma (14-21%), Jew (10-12%) or other foreign nationalities (10-11%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demographics_of_Hungary\">In reality<\/a>, according to the 2001 census (the latest available), the population of Hungary is 93.2% Hungarian. Roma represent 1.9%, the number of Jews is not known (Jew is not a recognized ethnicity in Europe) but the number of practitioners of Judaism is around 0.1%; and people of foreign nationality (e.g., Arab, Chinese) represent only 0.16%<\/p>\n<p>It is not difficult to guess that quite likely, this cognitive dissonance is closely related to the alarming rise of right-wing nationalism in my country of birth.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3357' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent survey, Hungarians believe they are a minority or threatened majority in their own country. They believe that Hungarians represent only 46-58% of the country&#8217;s population, with the rest being mostly Roma (14-21%), Jew (10-12%) or other foreign nationalities (10-11%). In reality, according to the 2001 census (the latest available), the population <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3357' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hungary","category-politics","category-21-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}