Tuesday 16 September 2014

Western vs Hungarian folk tales

There are huge differences between western tales and Hungarian folk tales. Why this is so important? Because this is the story, the teaching you put your children in bed with and you defining his or her foundation of thinking. Western tales are mostly speaking about violence. The main character leaves or gives up his family for some stranger or new society, thinks that's gonna be better than his own blood. If they have a family! Lots of time even they have some disability or at least the community, they live in, look upon it as a disability. All in all the whole tale is just so fucked up and twisted out. Plus there is no teaching or some kind of good conclusion.
In contradiction, Hungarian folk tales are always start with a loving family. The main character is going out to help for his family or to try his luck. He finds helpers, friends. Mostly from animal kingdom. So nature is his ally. Sometimes nature poses a test, but only to form the main character to a better person. Plus you see many times that if you join forces even the impossible is possible. If there are ancient tales, because I don't know all of them, in western world where the main character is not an orphan, no violence and the guy does not want to change his family (if he has one) for a useless princess or for some freak strangers along the way, than mea culpa. But how you can expect from children in western civilization that they will become a better generation when they are raised on such twisted stories. If the tales do not talk about prince and princess than they are mostly horror stories, like Little Red Riding Hood, Hans and Gretel, threatening dragons, monsters, man eating sirens, witches, etc.  Everybody is your enemy. Even your own family. If you have one. Get over the challenges in life with force, aggression and violence. And so on. What about the one good turn deserves an other?
Here is what I'm talking:
A tale from western world

A tale from Hungary

From which you can learn more? From which you can learn that your family is important, you need friends in life, life sometimes will test you, you must be kind to Nature and others to be treaten well too, join forces if your task or your opponent is too much for only you to taken care of? Which one is more human-oriented and kind? Which one reminds you to the finest guru's teaching, what Dalai Lama said about life?
And you still wondering why western civilization is so fucked up???

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