My previous website and blog, which admittedly I did not update very religiously, has been lost due to a series of unfortunate events. I feel that the time has come to resurrect some form of a website, if nothing else as a medium for me to write down my thoughts.

Thus today I launch my website and blog–The Mixed Perspective. I guess the name is palpable.

I recently took a vocabulary test, which upon completion inquired whether English is my native language. I did not quite know how to answer. I guess not? But is Hungarian? I wouldn’t say so either. My knowledge of these two languages is reminiscent of my perspective and philosophy on life, politics, and the world. Not really American, not really Hungarian, but definitely a combination of the two.

If one examines the two cultures, they’re both rather odd in that they are both a hodgepodge of mindsets. Perhaps because of my ignorance, but I tend to think of most cultures as more pure than either the American or the Hungarian. Most might have evolved, but they have done so in a natural sense. Hungary has been forcefully influenced by at least a dozen different cultures, from the Ottomans, to the Austrians, to the Soviets, as well as liberal (and illiberal) democracies. Meanwhile the country has retained some resemblance of an identity. The US, similarly, has been influenced by many cultures, but as we all know, in a completely different way. We are a million perceptions, a melting pot of sorts. I will attempt to show that the two uniquely mixed cultural perspectives are far enough from each other to provide, what I hope, is an interesting mindset for someone who has been lucky enough to have so intensively experienced them both; however, I also believe they are close enough to coexist and compliment each other in some form; I do believe I am able to reconcile the two at least to some extent.

In my future posts I hope to provide my humble mixed perspective on a variety of issues, and by writing them down learn from myself, and hopefully from those who read and comment on my posts. I do know that there is no “typical” American perspective, and I also know that the views of Eastern Europeans can not be easily epitomized either; however, I hope I can provide an interesting inferences on a number of issues–a viewpoint, which might not be obvious to those who have spent most of their lives in either of these two already very mixed worlds.

(As a technical note, the website will soon move to my old site’s address: www.MartonLukacs.com.)