For us Hungarians, the unshakeable belief that we are qualitatively different to others is expressed as ethnic difference, in other words, an irreducible given.
Language reinforces the belief in qualitative, immutable difference, in ethnicity.
It is the type of collective fiction that has been cemented into social fact. In order to gain even an inkling into Hungarian discourse, a few general principles have to be grasped. Firstly, that any discourse is culturally specific, unique to a given cultural context that must be accessible before the meanings contained within the discourse can be deciphered. Talking at cross-purposes is all too easy. Ethnicity is part of the Hungarian doxa.