It is first recorded in the population register, and then in our everyday life, we have to declare our place of birth. In all of our personal documents, certificates, and other documents, we give the name of our place of birth, thus it is fixed in us, and we let the country and the world know where we come from. This data accompanies us irrevocably until the end of our lives. Over time, it may differ several times from the settlement name in our address register due to moving.
We might think that where our parents live, we start our life on this earth, in this country, that settlement is our birthplace , in a narrower sense, our homeland and not the maternity ward of the hospital.
In the case of today's older generation, the name of the specific settlement is marked in our personal identification data, where our family lives, which settlement we consider to be our roots, from where life may have brought us to travel, but where we will return later, if for other reasons. not to visit the graves of our generations before us.
I don't know how long ago, but nowadays - unless the mother lives in the city where there is also a maternity hospital - the place of birth is no longer the specific settlement where the mother carried her child under her heart and where, as a small child, returning home from the maternity hospital, for the first time her own the born child can dream in his bed.
This place will not appear in the population register.
The child born will be registered according to the location of the given maternity hospital (nowadays the county seat or another big city of the county where there is still a maternity hospital, e.g. Miskolc and Sátoraljaújhely in Borsod County).
As of May 1, 2022, there are 3,155 settlements in the country.
In the population register, the place of birth (for now, disregarding Budapest, or counting 2 cities per county) is approx. 38 city names are repeated in all children born in Hungary!
What is my problem with this?
With this practice, in my opinion
- it does not serve the conceptual and emotional attachment to the homeland, which establishes/determines the individual's sense of identity, the strengthening of patriotism, in fact!
- this practice does not consider the acceptance of the place of birth/native land (in today's terms) as decisive, to be supported, or as evidence,
- more than 3,100 settlements disappear when asked "where were you born" for people who were otherwise born in Hungary.
Apparently, in the era of hospital births, with the liquidation of maternity homes, this is a "trivial" question, since it is a clear administrative procedure fixed in law.
I'm just wondering if it's just me that's bothering me, is it only me that's causing a problem?
Sincerely,
Judit Nagné Tarjányi
3534 Miskolc
06-70/261-1995
Photo: Illustration / eduline.hu
