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Are the "foreigners" mostly other Europeans?
by MikeUt 6y ago
Are the "foreigners" mostly other Europeans?
- Bancakes 6y agoWhat do you mean 'other Europeans'? There's a great variety of culture in Europe, it's a densely packed continent.
- xxpor 6y agoThere really isn't. Europeans consistently wildly overestimate the difference in cultures between countries. The language barriers probably don't help there.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoCompared to what? Are cultural difference between US, Canada and mexico any greater than those between Switzerland, Italy and Russia?
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- zorked 6y agoYes, of course, each of those countries is internally very diverse, and in relation to the others. Each of those countries was made by a mix of native, European, African and Asian peoples of different kinds, in different proportions, at different times. Europe is made of just Europeans, and immigration is a very recent thing.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoDude, WTF, Egyptians have been living in Italy four thousand years before USA existed.
- Bancakes 6y agoIs this what American education sounds like? Do you recall that European nations practically ruled the world at different times in history and gladly took in and integrated foreigners? Unlike Americans who mostly wiped out the natives and grandfathered in slaves.
- MikeUt 6y ago> gladly took in and integrated foreigners? So why were non-white populations in Europe negligible until about 60 years ago? Statistics are hard to come by, but do these pictures of London shortly after the fall of the British colonial empire look like a capital that "gladly took in and integrated foreigners"? https://www.vintag.es/2012/12/london-in-color-photographs-in-1960-and.html https://www.vintag.es/2012/12/london-in-color-photographs-in... Or Paris? https://flashbak.com/24-color-photographs-of-paris-from-may-1960-the-cushman-tour-364826/ https://flashbak.com/24-color-photographs-of-paris-from-may-... Or if you don't like to go by random photos: "Historical migration into or within Europe has mostly taken the form of military invasion" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe > Is this what American education sounds like? Having been educated in Europe myself, there was no hint of this "gladly took in and integrated foreigners" you speak of in the curriculum. May I ask where you got this idea?
- Bancakes 6y agoNo, we don't. We have millenia-old nations that have been through what the US is about to be. We've had enough wars, treaties, territory shift, that everyone's family tree is nomadic. To put it simply, there's more culture in a territory the size of Texas, than the whole US combined.
- DetroitThrow 6y agoI think he clearly is asking about the makeup of immigrants there being closely related European cultures because Switzerland has openly xenophobic policies towards Muslims, not historically Christian Europeans.
- esja 6y agoAbout two thirds are from the EU28/EFTA countries. However: There are twice as many Asians in Switzerland as there are people from the Americas. There are also more Africans than there are Americans. The fifth largest immigrant group are from Kosovo (almost as many as France and way more than Spain or Austria). There have been multiple waves of immigration and the country is actually very diverse. https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population/migration-integration/foreign.html https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population/m...
- smnrchrds 6y agoMore than 80% are from Europe. 35.5% are from Germany, Austria, Italy, and France, i.e. countries with the same language and ethnicity (to a certain extent) as the native Swiss. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/migration-series-part-1-_who-are-the-25-foreign-population-in-switzerland/42412156 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/migration-series-part-1...