29.03. Hungary
National flag:• Today's flag we used at first in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The tricolour feature of the flag is based on the French flag and the ideas of French revolution, while the colours red, white and green.
• Red – „power”
• White – „loyalty”
• Green – „hope”
National hymn:
The lyrics written by Ferenc Kölcsey in 1823.
Official musical setting was composed by the romantic composer Ferenc Erkel.
Parlamient:
Largest Parliament in Europe
Was started to built in 1885 and completed in 1904.
National Crown:You can see in the parlamient. This is the oldest crown in Hungary.
National Theatre:
Opening originally in 1837.
New National Theatre opened in 14 September 2000.
National Museum:Built from 1837-1847
neo-classical style
– History of Hungary
National Day:
• 15th March
• Márciusi ifjak ("March youths"), memorial day of the 1848 Revolution. There are usually speeches and music pieces performed; several people wear a cockade with the national colours (red, white and green)
Castle Of Buda and the Chain Bridge
Heores Square
Global citizenship with TorbjØrn (8.3.2011)
Comparative education: Multiculturalism and Open society
Anke Jacobs
Laura Szombathelyi
Marcello Pera :
Marcello Pera tried to incestigate the problem of multiculturalism. Their for he used 4 resorces to explained the problem and to find a good solution fot it.
The first was Derrida’s view: Deconstructing, decontstructivism
This part of the article is about conditionally and unconditionally hospitality. conditional hospitality means we should intagrate foreign in our culture, but this means that we make them no longer foreigner.
Unconditonally hospitality ont he other hand means that we should abandon our current policies of integration and adopt instead a programme whose task is the realization of „rainbow societies” This what’s Derrida believes.
Second was Taylor’s view.
This is about survival pronciple which is mean the survival of a culture is a good in itself and societies must be active in defending the rights of minority communities. He also agress that cultures can be compared and evaluated and this not all culture is equal.
Marcello says „Trough we allow that personal identity depends on a sense of belonging to a culture, this does not imply that the culture in question must necessarity be the one in wich individuals were born.
He also agress that we shoul have respect for dying communities but that not mean we have to put them in sort of protected social zoo.
The third view is the liberalism.
Liberalism has 3 principals:
1. Multiple divisions: individuals, and individuals alone, have natural rights.
2. Neutrality of the state: are free to pursue their own ideas of a good life.
3. The compassibility of all values: all values are composibble, that is not in conflict int he public sphere.
Marcello does not beleive is that work because this is where that public and the private come into conflict.
ð in the private sphere you can do whatever you wants but not int he public sphere.
The last view is Popper’s.
He answer to the question „how can we construct a societ which respects individual freedom as much as possible without at the same time leading to its own destruction?” Is the method of dialogue.
He says the Open society is a hard nd difficult society where commitment to dialogue is fundamental and only those who really want to engage in it may become citizens.
This requires respect from everyone, Not only the citizen of a country should except the imigrants. The imigrants should learn values and traditions of the host country.
Marcello beleives that Popper’s view is the most fuithful one, because he claims that the principal of commitment to dialogue encorugaes traditions to demonstrate their merits.
Global citizenship with TorbjØrn (8.3.2011)
Content of our lesson was wery simple, to write a paper based on our reading from the last lesson. Writing itselfactually was not so easy....There is a paper written by me, Mitsue and Eva based on article called Respect as the Ethic of the Open society:
Global citizenship Mitsue Kondo, Eva De Smijter, Michaela Lišková
Learning for Democracy, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2006
Respect as the Ethic of the Open Society
Stefano Gathei
(University of Pisa, Italy)
The aim of our paper is to conclude the article ´Respect as the Ethic of the Open Society´ by Stefano Gathei where he discusses the possibilities and the dangers of the relativism in the open society. In which the tolerance and respect are the basic idea for it, which are often used in the wrong way and misunderstood.
The biggest problem of our society is the confusion about the meaning of tolerance and respect. So it is necessary to make it clear.
Open society starts with tolerance by allowing differences to exist. To tolerate someone is rather passive, it is just the patient connivance of something we nearly do not care about or cannot accept as equal or worthful.
Moreover, the difference between respect and tolerance is that we do not only allow the difference but we also try to learn from them. According to Notturno “Respect […] means that we take the dissenting opinions of other seriously, and that we regard them as possibly true. It means, in fact, that we treat them as potentially our own – since we want to discover the truth and since we recognize that we may be in error […]” (Notturno, 2000, p.33).
At the same time, being critical is really important in having respect for someone else. We have to be willing to learn from the others. Have an open mind but still be critical enough because every opinion does not have to be the right one.
However, we cannot forget the dangers of an open society. We can only afford to tolerate and respect those who in turn tolerate and respect us. “Aggressive people not only fail to appreciate respect, they also ignore tolerance, thus putting the minimum condition of civil coexistence at risk.” (Popper, 1945a, p.265).
And that´s why we think it is important to teach children how to be respectful and tolerant, in order to be a global citizen in a multicultural society.
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European stereotypes with Jette (25.2.2011)
StereotypesStereotypes are deeply set in us and our task is to overcome them. Because they often are not true or just generalized opinions. These stereotypes create prejudices which are making understanding others cultures much more difficult.
So during the lesson we were focusing on stereotypes of our own country and than comparing it with reality which was really enriching and sometimes surprising for everybody.
Let me present a few stereotypes about the Czechs, and I have to say these are mostly true however still generalized.
You can tell I am Czech because....
I do not like politicians.
I know what the dumplings are and I love eating them.
I think the Czech beer is the best beer in the world.
I am friendly and warm-hearted.
I love eating.
I do not trus anyone.
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