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As a Swiss citizen (my age range is 40-50), I can only provide my own witness account about what you just wrote: I think you're completely wrong. The fact that

by nokya 6y ago

As a Swiss citizen (my age range is 40-50), I can only provide my own witness account about what you just wrote: I think you're completely wrong. The fact that some Swiss were able to contribute immensely to a "positive impact all around the world" doesn't magically turn us into a nice and warm population, open to other people's cultures. A large part of the population hates foreigners, considers them as opportunists and job stealers, if not criminals. This is not a "Swiss", it's the same everywhere in the world. The difference is that Swiss are educated and law abiding xenophobes: a foreigner will rarely feel insecure in Switzerland and discrimination will mostly be silent. As opposed to a country like the USA where racists are empowered with a low likelihood of criminal charges. But that doesn't mean in any way that a foreigner is more welcome in Switzerland than elsewhere. If you sincerely believe this, it could only indicate you don't share a significant part of your life with foreigners who actually visually look like foreigners.

chrisseaton 6y ago
> This is not a "Swiss", it's the same everywhere in the world. If you think everyone's a xenophobe and it's just that the Swiss are the best at not acting on it... then yeah they're the best aren't they? Beats acting on it with violence like every other country surely? Everyone always thinks the worst of their own country and holds their own to higher standards.
yawaworht1978 6y ago
This is a honest and candid review. People think the country with the highest standards of living is a wholly charitable entity. Ask the first generation Italians. Or Turkish. Or Sri Lankans. Albanians. Former Yugoslavs. Some 50% of German immigrants , notabene with the same education and language(minus the dialect) leave this alleged paradise within 1 year. Same language, same education. Now add a different skin color to that and lack of speaking the language to that, then you might be able to grasp how these people felt there. Of course there are some die hard open minded people there, not enough, though. Sounds like I have nothing good to say about Switzerland? There are good aspects, I just blow a head gasket every time a person who has not lived there from early on and dealt with the institutions or does not have relatives there thinks it is a nation of innocence , milk(this is true, though) and honey. People are less likely to be beat up by a racist mob, that is not how it is done in Switzerland. The Swiss are silent sufferers and more sophisticated than that. I simply think that classist amd racists are the blindest people walking earth. Plenty of those in Switzerland. Ps even that direct democracy is a crock of manure. A wise man once told me, the Nazis the communists amd other such opportunists ....in Switzerland they will have a smile and wear a suit.

by nokya 6y ago

chrisseaton 6y ago

> This is not a "Swiss", it's the same everywhere in the world. If you think everyone's a xenophobe and it's just that the Swiss are the best at not acting on it... then yeah they're the best aren't they? Beats acting on it with violence like every other country surely? Everyone always thinks the worst of their own country and holds their own to higher standards.

yawaworht1978 6y ago

This is a honest and candid review. People think the country with the highest standards of living is a wholly charitable entity. Ask the first generation Italians. Or Turkish. Or Sri Lankans. Albanians. Former Yugoslavs. Some 50% of German immigrants , notabene with the same education and language(minus the dialect) leave this alleged paradise within 1 year. Same language, same education. Now add a different skin color to that and lack of speaking the language to that, then you might be able to grasp how these people felt there. Of course there are some die hard open minded people there, not enough, though. Sounds like I have nothing good to say about Switzerland? There are good aspects, I just blow a head gasket every time a person who has not lived there from early on and dealt with the institutions or does not have relatives there thinks it is a nation of innocence , milk(this is true, though) and honey. People are less likely to be beat up by a racist mob, that is not how it is done in Switzerland. The Swiss are silent sufferers and more sophisticated than that. I simply think that classist amd racists are the blindest people walking earth. Plenty of those in Switzerland. Ps even that direct democracy is a crock of manure. A wise man once told me, the Nazis the communists amd other such opportunists ....in Switzerland they will have a smile and wear a suit.