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Miss Jasmine Lee (C), the winner of the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2018 and other participants pose for photos during the pageant in San Francisco, the United States, Feb. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Yilin)
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Miss Karen Yang (L), the winner of the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2017, crowns the winner of the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2018 Jasmine Lee (C), during the pageant in San Francisco, the United States, Feb. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Yilin)
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Miss Jasmine Lee (C), the winner of the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2018 and other participants pose for photos during the pageant in San Francisco, the United States, Feb. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Yilin)
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Miss Karen Yang (L), the winner of the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2017, crowns the winner of the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant 2018 Jasmine Lee (C), during the pageant in San Francisco, the United States, Feb. 22, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Yilin)
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More to this story. Apparently both Shaoang Liu and Sandor Shaolin Liu won Hungary's first gold medal in Winter Olympics. Congratulations.
Amid anti-immigrant propaganda, the sons of a Chinese immigrant win gold for Hungary
It’s time to say something about the performance of Sándor Shaolin Liu, Shaoang Liu, Viktor Knoch, and Csaba Burján in the men’s 5,000m speed skating relay. First of all, they won gold with a new Olympic record of 6:31.971 over the Chinese and Canadian teams. This achievement is remarkable by itself, but what it makes it even more meaningful for fans is that this is the only gold medal Hungarian competitors have ever won at a Winter Olympics. Between 1924 and 2014 Hungarians earned only one silver and five bronze medals. Since Lake Placid, 38 years ago, no Hungarian has won any medal whatsoever.
After three years of government propaganda against “migrants,” the Chinese background of the two brothers on the team became part of a public debate about immigration. I don’t know what went through Viktor Orbán’s head when he wrote on his Facebook page: “Köszönjük, hogy ezt is megélhettük. Hajrá magyarok! / Grateful for living to see this day! Go Hungarians!” But those who disapprove of Orbán’s hate campaign against migrants felt a certain degree of satisfaction. Here it is. Orbán has to face the uncomfortable truth that sons of an “economic migrant” made up half of the Hungarian speed skating team that turned in such an outstanding performance.
Thirty years ago the boys’ father and his brother picked up their bags and, after a ten-day train ride, arrived in Europe. For one reason or another, he decided where he got married to a Hungarian woman. He was the kind of “migrant” who today wouldn’t be able to make a home in Hungary. He was not a refugee; he was clearly an economic migrant. And he brought his Chinese cultural heritage with him. In fact, all of the Liu children — Sanyi (Sándor Shaolin), Ádó (Shoang), and their younger sister — speak fluent Chinese. Moreover, the Liu children are not Christians. The two boys spent a full year in China, where they received the kind of training without which they wouldn’t have been able to win the event. All in all, Mr. Liu’s decision to settle in Hungary enabled Hungary to bask in glory today.
The children consider themselves Hungarians of Chinese background. One of the boys dates a British skater; the other, a Russian. A truly global family with deep Hungarian roots. What can be wrong with that? Nothing, of course, except that Viktor Orbán’s hateful propaganda has managed to poison the souls of almost an entire country.
The Liu family Source: Index / Photo: István Huszti
I’m sure that Orbán is spending very little time pondering the incongruity of his position. When confronted, he would most likely explain to us that the Chinese are different; they are good immigrants, whereas the Syrians and the Afghans are not. But since Viktor Orbán likes sports, I would like to call his attention to another outstanding Hungarian athlete, the Syrian-Hungarian Aida Mohamed, a fencer who was born in Budapest in 1976 of a Syrian father and a Hungarian mother. I’m sure that, if confronted with Mohamed’s case, Orbán would respond that her father came legally, as opposed to the recent refugees who trampled across the country. Yes, the situation is not the same, but Syria didn’t have a civil war going on when Aida Mohamed’s father arrived in Hungary.
Even if we can only guess what Orbán’s answers would be to probing questions about Chinese-Hungarians or Syrian-Hungarians, we do know what his slavish followers think about the people who point out the inconsistency and unacceptability of Orbán’s position on ethnic purity and migration. László Majtényi, the highly respected legal scholar, wrote on his Facebook page: “Two migrants won Olympic gold for Hungary. Thank you.” What followed is hard to fathom. György Pilhál, one of the most objectionable columnists for Magyar Idők, mercilessly. While the whole country is celebrating this great Hungarian achievement, he wrote, Majtényi has the nerve “to call Shaolin Sándor Liu and Shaoang Liu migrants” when the Liu brothers made it clear that “this country is their homeland; we were born here; we went to school here; our family lives here and so do our friends.” Shame on Majtényi and “all of those left-liberal public figures who try to quell our joy every time that Hungarians achieve something outstanding.”
András Hont that in the past Fidesz politicians insisted that the word “migrant” doesn’t carry any stigma. But now, we learn that “migrant” is not a neutral concept after all; it has a pejorative meaning. It cannot be applied to the Liu brothers because they are Hungarian heroes. But it doesn’t matter how one parses the facts, without their father settling in Hungary, the Liu brothers wouldn’t have been the backbone of the four-man relay team that won Hungary’s first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics. And without the Syrian Mr. Mohamed’s marrying a Hungarian woman, we wouldn’t have had Aida Mohamed who even today at the age of 42 is still a darned good fencer. And, by the way, she has a Chinese-Canadian husband. Yes, Viktor Orbán, this is the new global world, and your fence costing 1 billion euros will never be able to reverse the trend.
February 24, 2018
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Thanks it is a good story show that migrant can contribute positively to the host country if only the host country allowed it Amazing story considering no gold medal in 80 years for Hungary
After all all Hungarian know their forefather come from China They are the hun that the Han dynasty soldier chase them from western China
My Hungarian friend told me they have a lot of common word with the Turk
After all all Hungarian know their forefather come from China They are the hun that the Han dynasty soldier chase them from western China
My Hungarian friend told me they have a lot of common word with the Turk
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