Unique Cultural Idiosyncrasies: * Do not clink glasses when drinking beer in Hungary. This is what the Austrian generals of the Hapsburg Empire did in 1849 when they violently quashed the Hungarian independence movement. The Hungarians vowed never to clink glasses for 150 years in memory of that moment, and while the sesquicentennial has recently passed, the bitter memories of this violent repression have not been forgotten * Hungarians greet and introduce themselves last name first and then first name last * The average tips for services is 10-20% for taxis, restaurants, etc. * Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, Hungarians were eager to remove all vestiges of the occupying Soviets, but what to do with all of those statues of Lenin and Stal