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TABLE 2: Educational Attainment among Hungarian immigrants compared with other ethnic groups.

Hungarian

Yugoslavian

Czech.

Austrian

Polish

Total

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

College 11.0

6.5

8.2

10.9

6.9

10.9

High School 23.7

17.4

10.7

20.4

17.3

26.7

Grammer School 50.3

45.0

53.6

44.9

38.1

40.1

Less than 5 yrs. edu. 15.0

31.0

18.4

23.8

37.8

22.2

(Bureau of Census, Census Population, 1960 “Nativity and Percentage”, pp. 33-38.)

TABLE 3: Occupation of Hungarian immigrants and other ethnic groups (16 years and over), 1970.

Hungarian

Czech.

Yugoslavian

Polish

Total

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

Professional, technical, and kindred occup.

22.2

19.7

13.3

12.3

16.9

Managerial & administrative, except farming

10.5

11.2

6.4

12.6

10.3

Sales

5.2

6.0

2.1

8.9

5.9

Clerical & kindred occup.

4.8

5.1

3.0

5.4

6.5

Craftsmen & kindred occup.

27.2

24.2

30.6

23.8

21.3

Operators, except transp.

15.0

15.9

22.4

21.6

14.7

Transport equip, oper.

2.3

2.8

2.1

2.4

3.1

Laborers, except farm

3.4

3.8

6.0

3.5

6.0

Farmers

0.3

2.3

0.9

0.6

0.9

Farm laborers & foremen

0.4

0.3

0.1

0.3

2.3

Service occuptions

8.8

8.7

13.1

8.2

11.9

Private household occupations

0.10.4

0.2

Tables 2 and 3 contain statistics which show the educational attainment and occupation of the Hungarians and some other ethnic groups in the 1960s and 1970s. It is interesting to note the big changes that took place in the social characteristics of American-Hungarians during those years.

As we all know, Hungarians, like any other ethnic groups in the USA, like to brag about their outstanding, famous sons, especially if they happen to be Nobel prize winners, atom physicists, musicians, one of the Hollywood rich and famous, etc. However, there is an underlying question, “Can we project these outstanding, unique features to the ethnic Hungarian population as a whole?” George Mikes, a noted Hungarian immigrant humorist, in his amusing essay, “Everybody is Hungarian,” writes that according to his wife all famous and noted persons have something to do with Hungary and its people. He writes that Queen Mary, grandmother of the present Queen of England, was not Hungarian, but whenever she received

Joe Namath (originally Németh), the legendary quarterback of the N. Y. Jets.

PHOTO COURTESY AMERICA'S AMAZING HUNGARIANS BY STEPHEN SISA