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The Treaty of Trianon divided a great nation into pieces after World War I. As a result Hungary and Transylvania were separated causing the two rural societies to develop at different paces. Thus, after spending a year studying rural society and the ethnic changes of the two lands questions arose as to why they developed differently in rural villages with the same ethnic structure. Another focus was the realities of whether or not these two lands could one day be reunited. Therefore, personal interviews were conducted in both Transylvania and Hungary, along with several trips that utilized observation skills in order to answer some of the questions that arose. Other resources included classes taught at the Budapest University of Economic Science and Public Administration, meetings with staff inside the Ministry of Agriculture in Budapest and library research, As a result several conclusions were gathered in which there is still hope for the two to be reunited one day with advanced rural societies as Transylvania attempts to catch up with its Hungarian counterpart. Hence, while the two are separate countries with different standards of living they are all still Hungarians with the Magyar blood running deep inside.