Budapest: The little fir tree was chosen and tied up, ready to be carried home and decorated for Christmas Eve. "Merry Christmas," said the market trader, "and a Happy New Year, without migrants." "I was totally taken aback," said the woman buying the tree. "What a terrible thing to say, and in the season of goodwill. The awful thing was he assumed I would agree with him. It makes me ashamed to be Hungarian." She nevertheless took the tree because she'd paid for it. This quiet exchange, in Hungarian, between two Hungarians, spoke as loudly as a far-right Jobbik party march about xenophobia in this former communist country, unused to...
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