Too Many ‘Happy White People’? Hungarian City Outraged at Exclusion from EU Culture Contest

Hungarian folk dancers. PHOTO: RT/File/Attila Kisbenedek/AFP

21 February 2018

RT — A Hungarian city’s bid to become the European Union’s next “Capital of Culture” was allegedly rejected by EU officials because its video entry showed too many smiling, dancing, white Christians, the city’s mayor says.

Székesfehérvár, Hungary’s ninth-largest city, submitted a short video as part of its entry for the 2023 European Capitals of Culture contest, a competition designed to “celebrate the cultural features Europeans share.” Featuring folk dancers, young couples, mothers, babies and even two elderly gentlemen playing chess in a park, the video was rejected. The EU panel of “independent experts in the field of culture” felt it had too many happy white people and not enough migrants, the city’s mayor Dr András Cser-Palkovics has claimed. […]

2 Comments on Too Many ‘Happy White People’? Hungarian City Outraged at Exclusion from EU Culture Contest

  1. Beautiful video. To me thats a perfect look into what true culture is. This mixed bag crap their trying to shove down everyones throats is the destruction of culture and all the beauty it entails.

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