The following video is Part 1 of a documentary entitled “Hungary: The Promised Land.” It concerns French and Belgian expats who emigrate to Hungary to escape the relentless cultural enrichment of their native countries.

The narrator makes clear his sneering disdain and condescension towards the poor benighted WAYCISTS who choose to move to Budapest. Imagine — they want to live among white Christians! What’s wrong with them??

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00 Hungary, the Promised Land

00:04 We are selling everything, and

00:08 We’ll start over. Anyway, since over there most places are furnished,

00:12 we won’t burden ourselves, [Hungary] isn’t next door either. —Yes, you’re right.

00:16 He’s a truck driver, she’s a stay-at-home mom.

00:20 In a month and a half, Steve, his wife Priscilla and their two children leave

00:24 Verdun in the Meuse [department]. They leave behind their job, their house

00:28 and France. Forever.

00:32 We have lived here for three years, and

00:36 So we feel relatively well here, but we find,

00:40 like everywhere else, the general problem with France.

00:44 Here we’re under impression that we lost our values, [that] our traditions

00:48 aren’t necessarily respected; even the mentality has changed,

00:52 I think. For Steve Nicolas the country

00:56 is in the process of sinking. Abandoned by its leaders,

01:00 overrun by immigrants.

01:04 There’s a problem with immigration, clearly, meaning that

01:08 we find a lot of unemployment in those populations,

01:12 insecurity, drug dealing. —You here in Verdun,

01:16 you feel insecure. —Pretty much, yes. Less than

01:20 in Nancy or Metz, but, let’s say that starting at

01:25 7-8pm things happen, though, voilà. —What’s going on, for example,

01:29 what type of things, here in…? —A lot of conjugal violence, there was a young girl

01:33 who was attacked by a migrant at 6am, which shows it’s not only happening

01:37 in the evening. A story that made a lot of noise in Verdun.

01:41 The problem: the young girl is suspected of lying.

01:45 No judicial follow-up. It didn’t matter: [since] an arrival of dozens

01:49 of migrants in the town plunged it into fear.

01:53 Priscilla is angry, she feels harassed on the street.

01:57 I avoid wearing high heals when I go out alone; I avoid

02:01 wearing pants, I mean leggings, to avoid honking and whistling from the cars,

02:05 because it’s really unbearable — unbearable, yes.

02:09 Over there, I can walk quietly in the street, no matter what

02:13 things I’m wearing. “Over there” is Hungary. The Promised Land

02:17 for this couple who cut themselves from their loved ones and who no longer recognize their country.

02:21 What are you going to look for in Hungary?

02:25 Values, traditions, a society that is

02:29 a little patriarchal, meaning that the man has his place, the woman has hers;

02:33 I don’t see why we should allow two women to get married or two men to get married,

02:38 or… No. That isn’t a family.

02:42 And in Hungary we are reassured by the fact that we know it isn’t going to happen.

02:46 Because a family, voilà, is traditional,

02:50 is natural: so it’s a man and a woman, who have children; quite simply.

02:54 It’s the story of French people

02:58 who dream of a white and Christian Europe

03:02 to the point of settling down

03:06 under the most conservative skies in Europe. Hungary, ten million inhabitants.

03:14 Leading it, Victor Orbán, an ultra-nationalist

03:18 prime minister. With his anti-migrant barbed wire,

03:22 he became the star of the hard right. The savior of a continent

03:26 which is allegedly drowning.

03:30 We will, of course, accept real migrants: Germans, Dutch, French, Italians.

03:38 Those who, uprooted, want to find in our country a Europe

03:42 which they have lost.

03:46 Since the attacks, some French people plunged into hatred. For them,

03:50 the fight has to be led from the inside.

03:54 Some new crusaders would even consider violent actions against

03:58 Muslims in Paris. —I’m not a terrorist

04:02 We aren’t here to provoke. We are here to offer security [prevention and defence].

04:06 A bunch of extremists are preparing for war,

04:10 while others chose exile, like these dozens of French, Belgians,

04:15 who moved to the East.

04:27 It’s glued well… What’s left from their previous life in Belgium is contained

04:31 in three large suitcases. It’s been a month since

04:35 Frédéric Leroi and his three children arrived in Hungary without knowing anybody.

04:39 We arrived in fact in August.

04:43 So we bought the apartment. And, voilà, I’m really trying to busy myself

04:47 so the children’s room will be perfect.

04:51 They ask me that, because for them, voilà, it’s a radical change of way of life.

04:55 The family’s father invested €70,000 in the buying of this modest apartment.

05:00 This manager of luxurious hotels put his career

05:04 between parentheses. He is on paternity leave and receives €750

05:08 every month — from the Belgian state.

05:12 For now, I’m sleeping here, but we’ll arrange a little better room, because sleeping

05:16 on the sofa bed isn’t really ideal.

05:20 So voilà, it’s 67 square meters [721 sq. ft.], of course, when you come from a Belgian house

05:24 of 150 square meters, [1615 sq. ft.], that’s different…

05:28 You lost comfort compared with your former life in Belgium.

05:32 Oh, that’s for sure. Now: we knew it, we knew it from the start. I mean, we came here,

05:36 not to have more comfort or a better life, not financially, anyway.

05:40 That’s clear. His plan is to open a small hotel.

05:44 For the time being, [all] the sacrifices, this 30-year-old, he accepts them.

05:48 Because he realizes — in this ordinary neighborhood in Budapest — his Hungarian dream.

05:52 It’s really the middle class that lives here, and

05:56 there are families, there are older people, and there’s really no insecurity whatsoever.

06:00 It has nothing to do with French “projects” [culturally enriched]. I think that here, in my opinion,

06:04 I must be the only foreigner

06:08 in the neighborhood, because voilà, they don’t know that here.

06:12 There are no “youths” loitering on the streets,

06:17 or dealing… This doesn’t exist here. Really.

06:21 There’s no such thing. It this former communist country, Frédéric Leroi

06:25 came to live among people, who, so he thinks, are similar to him.

06:29 The same culture, the same religion, to hell with mixing!

06:33 It’s the reformed church, in fact. So you have here two religions.

06:37 The Catholic religion and the reformed religion.

06:41 There are no mosques. They don’t exist. At the same time there are no Muslims either,

06:45 or only a very few. So, voilà, they don’t need a mosque.

06:53 A month after his arrival — Because I adore your country!

06:57 He feels more at home here, than in his birth country, where he was seeing

07:01 Muslims everywhere. —I have to admit that I always

07:05 suffer when I go shopping in Belgium, voilà, when I see

07:09 all those veiled people; sometimes I tell myself that I’m a bit foreign, I feel like a foreigner

07:13 in my own country. And it’s a bit of a shame, and it’s true that it was starting to take a toll.

07:17 To feel a foreigner in my country. Even if I was living in a neighborhood

07:21 where there was not yet a concentrated migrant population, although

07:25 we were among a lot of foreigners,

07:29 and that created this climate of the insecurity. Frédéric isn’t

07:33 amalgamating; for him immigration equals insecurity

07:38 and Islam equals danger. In Belgium

07:42 his three children went to a private Catholic school.

07:46 You OK, Loulou? —Yes.

07:50 But here they started their education in the public school in the neighborhood.

07:54 It was OK, school? —Yes! —You didn’t understand anything at all, as usual, right?

07:58 —Yes, we didn’t know. —So, yeah, voilà.

08:02 They used to be in a Catholic school with Catholic values, and it’s true

08:06 that over the years we saw the demographics of the school change,

08:10 and voilà, it’s true that we worried that the problem of robberies would start,

08:14 and that we would be suddenly in a neighborhood school,

08:18 a little less privileged, yes. Voilà.

08:22 In Hungary the state imposes mandatory classes on morality

08:26 in the schools. In them you learn, in particular, that to have sexual relations

08:30 outside marriage is a sin. But for now

08:34 Frédéric’s children don’t understand anything of what the teacher is saying.

08:38 The language is completely foreign to them; for the homework,

08:43 they have to manage somehow. —What do you have to do?

08:47 It’s math. —It’s math, but I don’t understand the problems.

08:51 What does the translation say? — How many sheep were

08:55 at the beginning when they were 64.

08:59 Neither the language nor the isolation have scared Frédéric off.

09:07 Budapest: a town with no migrants,