Most multi-ethnic Eastern European country? (Excluding Russia)

[rero]

today I saw a group of soldiers near Kaufland, 5 persons, 1 Latino, 2 Blacks, one white girl (local?- hopefully, no) and one hard to say of what origin

ok, but somebody has to save you from Russia. And your biggest ally is multiethnic.

[rero]

Budapest is very cosmopolitan (I'd say tens of thousands of foreigners live there), rest of Hungary not so much.

I recently saw a map/census where Budapest was the only region/city in Europe that identified more with Europe than either the country (in this case Hungary) or the region inside the country (in this case Budapest). This really surprised me.

[Blondie]

Romania, there are romanians, hungarians, saxons, tatars, gypsies.

[WeirdLookingFellow]

Romania, there are romanians, hungarians, saxons, tatars, gypsies.

+ Ukrainians, Turks, Bulgarians, Russians, Slovaks, Czechs, Serbs

[Blondie]

I recently saw a map/census where Budapest was the only region/city in Europe that identified more with Europe than either the country (in this case Hungary) or the region inside the country (in this case Budapest). This really surprised me.

Budapest is a different world inside Hungary, rural hungarians often call it "Red City" "Judapest" or something like that. This city became hungarian only after the late 19. century, because of magyarization of local germans, jews etc and hungarian migration from countryside and a big part of modern population is descedants of these non hungarian foreigners. If you check the name list of the apartmens you will often see german surnames, south slavic or jewish names. Im my class every 3. student had german surname. I have talked with tons of peoples in the pubs and almost everyone has at least distant non hungarian ancestors. That's why Budapest is very cosmopolitan, and nationalist hugarians hate it as well. Horthy said in the 20'years: "This city has denied his nation and had been wearing red rags."

[Jana]

Budapest is a different world inside Hungary, rural hungarians often call it "Red City" "Judapest" or something like that. This city became hungarian only after the late 19. century, because of magyarization of local germans, jews etc and hungarian migration from countryside and a big part of modern population is descedants of these non hungarian foreigners. If you check the name list of the apartmens you will often see german surnames, south slavic or jewish names. Im my class every 3. student had german surname. I have talked with tons of peoples in the pubs and almost everyone has at least distant non hungarian ancestors. That's why Budapest is very cosmopolitan, and nationalist hugarians hate it as well. Horthy said in the 20'years: "This city has denied his nation and had been wearing red rags."

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Don't forget huge amounts of western expats and immigrants even from China and Central Asia.

[Jana]

On Stears workplace there are many people (Hungarians) married with foreigners they met in BP. 2 or 3 women who work there have Italian husbands for example, and these Italians came to Budapest as expats to work in IT/finance industries.

[Lemminkäinen]

Finland: 20% Somali, Iraqi, Afghans, Philippines, Vietnamese, Russians, Swedes, Estonians, Saami etc. But Finland is Northern, not Eastern.

[Blondie]

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Don't forget huge amounts of western expats and immigrants even from China and Central Asia.

Yepp i forgot the chinese, rougly 50-100thousand east asian live in Budapest mostly chinese partly vietnamese, Józsefváros district is basically half china town.

[Satem]

In what sense multi-ethnic? By percentage of non-natives or by amount of different ethnic groups? In every bigger city of Eastern Europe you may find people from all over the world but their amount doesn't have to be significant. On the other hand, there are also countries like Latvia or Estonia with Russian minority which makes over 20% of population.