Our society is humming along in part because of the 25% foreign residents, and the hundreds of thousands who cross the border daily to work in our economy. The

Our society is humming along in part because of the 25% foreign residents, and the hundreds of thousands who cross the border daily to work in our economy. There are certainly some xenophobic people in Switzerland, and the SVP is certainly a party that uses xenophobic rhetoric to get attention, but our economy is the opposite of xenophobic.