Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
Interethnic spaces
132 Károly Tóth in nearby villages, by the moderate demand or by the oversupply of apartments/ houses. There is great fear on the part of local authorities since they have no means to influence a potential process of this kind. The ethnic relevance of the phenomenon is important as well, as can be seen on Graph 6: Graph 6: Proportion of Hungarian and Slovak parents and grandparents living alone in the house 100,00 90.00 80.00 70.00 60.00 50.00 40.00 30.00 20.00 10,00 0,00 91,43 8,57 number of houses % ■ Hungarians Ü Slovaks The proportion of Slovak-speaking and of Hungarian-speaking parents and grandparents living alone is 10:1. This means that the eventual settlers14 would take exclusively the place of the Hungarian-speaking population. Obviously, this could have significant influence on the community life and could intensify the assimilation processes. For an accurate evaluation we should know the age-structure of the population and this was not the subject of our survey. We can only assess that a similar process may take place in 10-20 years time. This process will certainly radically change not only the ethnic composition of the community but also its present life
