  The approximate chiral invariance of the two-flavor QCD is known to be
spontaneously broken. This effect explains the relatively small pion mass and,
as is widely believed, the mass splittings of would-be chiral partners --- the
hadrons of equal spin but opposite parity lying in one multiplet of the chiral
symmetry. We present experimental evidences that in reality such mass
splittings in the meson sector seem to be approximately flavor-independent in
all cases where they can be tested experimentally --- the spin 0 and 1. In
addition, a partial flavor independence holds for spin $1/2$ baryons (namely
among states in which at least one of quarks is not $u$ or $d$ one). This
property allows to predict masses and quantum numbers for 10 new hadrons. Some
interesting consequences are discussed.
