In bed with Canadians
Posted: February 22, 2011 Filed under: Art, Media, video games | Tags: Arts, Canada, Civilization V, Ethnicity, Hungarian refugees, Hungary, Italy, Literature, Magazines and E-zines, Online Writing, Short story, United States, Zouch 2 Comments »
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Check me out! The web-based literature, arts and culture magazine Zouch has taken a shine to me. They reblogged my “Civilization 5 offends my Hungarian sensibilities” post here.
Their website is pretty… and they also accept poetry and short stories!
And, so what if they are Canadian – if I plan on achieving global dominance, I must start somewhere, right?
Also, Hungarians love Canada for some reason. When my family was waiting around in Italy and being interviewed by the US Embassy to make sure we weren’t Soviet spies, we thought long and hard about going to Canada instead – almost every other refugee we were friends with moved there.
Civilization 5 offends my Hungarian sensibilities
Posted: February 4, 2011 Filed under: video games, War | Tags: architecture, atomic bomb, Bucharest, Budapest, Civilization V, einstein, European Union, feud between Romania and Hungary, Firaxis, Firaxis Games, hungarian pride, Hungary, nationalism, Rubiks Cube 54 Comments »This post was written on a horse, while reading about Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary.
I understand Americans learn very little of Eastern Europe, so I don’t hold it against Civilization 5 for making Budapest a city-state instead of an actual civilization. Sure sure, it hurts, but Americans get such lousy education these days I can’t expect the Firaxis team to know that Hungary is one of the oldest and best countries in Europe.
What I absolutely cannot dismiss, for its outright heart-piercing egregious nature, is the kind of city-state Budapest is: …militaristic. How is it that Bucharest, of Romania, is a “cultured city”, but Budapest is not? What has Bucharest contributed to the world?
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