Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2017 (29. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)

2017-04-28 / 17. szám

Out for a Run through my Friend’s Hungarian Roots It’s the sort of winter morning in the woods where the frosted dirt cracks when stepped on. The path I’m running on, alongside my friend, Victoria, is dappled with thin sunlight. As always when running on trails in Pennsylvania, we spend the whole run looking down. The state is notorious for having rocky hiking trails, and this one over a mountain close to our town is no exception. Also typical of us, we are oscillating between gossiping about how we think friends’ freshmen years of college are going and the politics of the day. The refugee crisis is unfolding across the Mediterranean and Europe, and Hungary — where Victoria lived before moving to the United States at age 4 — has recently chosen to close its border with Croatia to migrants who were trying to make their way to countries in West­ern Europe. Throughout our discussion, Victoria expresses sympathy for refugees being forced out of their countries. However, when I mention Hungary’s decision, Victoria lashes out. She slows, taking the time and energy out of running to look at me as she fiercely defends her home country, schooling me on Hungarian modern politics. I find myself shocked on several levels as we keep running, with several tense miles to go. Victoria doesn’t have a typical immigrant story, if there is one. She had moved with her family from Budapest to Pittsburgh when she was four. Three years later, they moved into a big house near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where her father worked at a hospital, and her mother took time off from her work in the sci­ences to raise Victoria and her sister. She had, technically, been bom a citizen of both the United States and Hungary, as her mother is a U.S. citizen who had spent part of her life in America. So, they had little worries when it came to passports or papers. Her family also didn’t seem to have financial troubles either. For these reasons, and others, I never considered whether Victoria was an “immigrant” or not. Mistakenly, I associ­ated all potential difficulties an immigrant would have with financial or citizenship issues, and had never considered the emotional and social moorings of national origin, whether a person is an immigrant or not. As our sneakers beat down fallen leaves in the crisp Pennsylvania woods, I considered this identity for the first time. I knew her family spoke Hungarian at home, and celebrated Hungarian holidays, such as “name days,” or quasi-birthday celebrations on the feast day of the saint who shared their name. I knew Victoria was proud to be Hungarian, and enjoyed visiting her family back in Budapest each summer. What I didn’t think about until then, however, was how salient her identity as a Hungarian was to her moral and political views. Victoria was staunchly conservative, but that wasn’t unusual in our conservative, Catholic school and community. I had never considered the connection between her family’s struggles under the communist Soviet regime in Hungary to her current economic views. Further, I didn’t realize Victoria’s persistent loyalty to her home country, even when they made what I thought to be a morally questionable decision to close their borders to refugees. Over eight years of friendship, we had talked a lot about Hungary, and her upbringing, but in a way that I didn’t realize until later had been largely superficial, centering on cultural differences between the two countries. We had dug little into the emotional or mental toll that moving from one’s home country takes on a person. It hurt to explore it with her. By Nora Shelly, immigrantconnect.medill.northwestem.edu Why Mercedes Relocates to Hungary Mercedes relocates. Even the prestigious German manufac­turer, known for the very high selling 'price1 of its vehicles, needs to reduce its costs. That’s why it produces in ... Hungary. Clean, meticulously ordered, silent, the Mercedes site of Kecskemet, in the Hungarian plain (80 kilo­meters south of Budapest), is certainly not a sub-factory. The precision of the organization on the chains and the quality controls are the same as in Ger­many. However, the wage costs in Hungary are two thirds lower than in Stuttgart, according to international studies. And even if Mercedes had to face a strike at the end of 2016, under which it agreed to a wage increase of 10% each year in the next two years. Of course, the labor force generally only accounts for 10% of the cost of a car. It prevents. As many suppliers are also relo­cated and they provide 70% of the value of a vehicle, the salary cost savings also apply to the parts purchased! It ends up doing a lot. In addition, the staff is very young, much more so than in Germany, which reduces payroll costs to the same degree. Opened in March 2012, the Kecskemet factory (the birthplace of the famous composer Zoltán Kodály) has a promising future. Daimler (parent company of Mercedes) is investing 580 million euros in a new extension of the site with a new warehouse. This amount is in addition to the 800 million ini­tially disbursed. The CLA brand (a four-door bypass and a chassis separated from its small A-class), the CLA Shooting Brake and a part of the Class B passenger cars are now part of the exclu­sive brand. The Kölleda plant in Germany. Kecskemet is already exporting to 180 countries. And “we will produce a next genera­tion of compact models,” said Mercedes to say. But it is not finished. A second factory will be built later on this 160-hectare site, of which only 84 are now built. 2,500 additional jobs will be created, in addition to the current 4,000. With local sup­pliers, the number of direct and indirect jobs currently exceeds 12,000. The site produced just under 200,000 vehicles last year. Obviously, Mercedes - who visited his site on Tuesday to some European journalists - strongly refuses the term relocation and is indignant when talking about savings. When you’re the world’s top-of-the-range, it’s not flatter­ing to tell customers that they’re making a car in low-cost coun­tries. Dieter Zetsche, head of Daimler, however, has repeatedly mentioned the need to reduce the manufacturer’s very high costs. qtelegram.com The English Page ; of the Hírlap can serve as a bridge between the non-Hungarian-speaking members of the fam­­; ily and the community. Use it to bring people together! Subscribe to the Hirlap! Advertise your busmess in the Hirlap! If you have any questions or suggestions, please call (626) 765-4534 „(Erősítse egészségét, növetje szépségét és 6oCdogságát” Mindezt elérheti rendelőnkben: Susan Pekarovics, M.D. Belgyógyász szakorvos, endocrinológus, Fibromyalgia specialista Klinikánkon megtalálható: 1. Széleskörű belgyógyászati ellátás 2. 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