The survey gauged 2,930 people in Hungary and Hungarian communities in Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine and only very few of them said they felt Hungary was their homeland, lead researcher Valer Veres told a conference. The only exception was respondents in Transcarpathia, E Ukraine, where 10 percent of ethnic Hungarians said it was Hungary they considered "home".

    While the majority of Hungarians living as a minority group in neighbouring countries said they were proud of their national identity, 76.5 percent of respondents from Vojvodina, N Serbia, said they felt ashamed of being Hungarian. Veres noted that the reasons for such large-scale disappointment should be further researched.

    The research was initiated jointly by the Ethnic and Minority Studies Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Romanian Max Weber Foundation for Social Science Research.