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What is this supposed to imply? us states are also a poor representation of humanity. This matters a great deal: switzerland is notoriously ethnically homogenou

What is this supposed to imply? us states are also a poor representation of humanity. This matters a great deal: switzerland is notoriously ethnically homogenous and unable to get along with anyone. Life on easy mode!

ceejayoz 7mo ago
It implies that Switzerland is by no means so tiny their lessons learned can't apply to other multi-million human sized regions. Switzerland gets along with others just fine, to the point where Italy and France used to handle their air defense on the weekends (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702). > The Swiss Air Force did not respond because the incident occurred outside normal office hours; a Swiss Air Force spokesman stated: "Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend. It's a question of budget and staffing." Switzerland relies on neighboring countries to police its airspace outside of regular business hours; the French and Italian Air Forces have permission to escort suspicious flights into Swiss airspace, but do not have authority to shoot down an aircraft over Switzerland.
- throwaway27448 7mo ago
  Try 500 mil and you'll see china is the only interesting sample. If the swiss were able to get along with others, they wouldn't have such a reputation as racist nazis
  - ceejayoz 7mo ago
    China is, as the EU (450M), US (340M), and Switzerland are, broken into smaller subunits for local and regional government.
  - ginko 7mo ago
    There's only two countries with over 500 million people and they're complete freak outliers.
Liftyee 7mo ago
"unable to get along with anyone" is an interesting claim given that the last armed conflict in Switzerland was in 1847 (Sonderbund War).
- Ray20 7mo ago
  I mean, it's hard to start wars when you don't get along with anyone and can't find a single ally.
  - ceejayoz 7mo ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702 > Switzerland relies on neighboring countries to police its airspace outside of regular business hours; the French and Italian Air Forces have permission to escort suspicious flights into Swiss airspace, but do not have authority to shoot down an aircraft over Switzerland. They were friendly enough with their neighbors to let their own Air Force have the nights and weekends off. Passport control when I went from France to Switzerland was someone coming onto the train and yelling “anyone not allowed in Switzerland? No? Good!” I think they’re fine.
khalic 7mo ago
Ethnically homogeneous, you guys really just spew nonsense without doing _any_research? Swiss here, you’re very, very wrong
input_sh 7mo ago
My god, Switzerland is literally the least ethnically homogenous country on the continent (if we ignore tiny nations like Luxembourg, Lichtenstein and Malta), with a third of its population being foreign-born, which is percentage-wise double that of the US.

ceejayoz 7mo ago

It implies that Switzerland is by no means so tiny their lessons learned can't apply to other multi-million human sized regions. Switzerland gets along with others just fine, to the point where Italy and France used to handle their air defense on the weekends (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702). > The Swiss Air Force did not respond because the incident occurred outside normal office hours; a Swiss Air Force spokesman stated: "Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend. It's a question of budget and staffing." Switzerland relies on neighboring countries to police its airspace outside of regular business hours; the French and Italian Air Forces have permission to escort suspicious flights into Swiss airspace, but do not have authority to shoot down an aircraft over Switzerland.

throwaway27448 7mo ago
Try 500 mil and you'll see china is the only interesting sample. If the swiss were able to get along with others, they wouldn't have such a reputation as racist nazis
- ceejayoz 7mo ago
  China is, as the EU (450M), US (340M), and Switzerland are, broken into smaller subunits for local and regional government.
- ginko 7mo ago
  There's only two countries with over 500 million people and they're complete freak outliers.

Liftyee 7mo ago

"unable to get along with anyone" is an interesting claim given that the last armed conflict in Switzerland was in 1847 (Sonderbund War).

Ray20 7mo ago
I mean, it's hard to start wars when you don't get along with anyone and can't find a single ally.
- ceejayoz 7mo ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_702 > Switzerland relies on neighboring countries to police its airspace outside of regular business hours; the French and Italian Air Forces have permission to escort suspicious flights into Swiss airspace, but do not have authority to shoot down an aircraft over Switzerland. They were friendly enough with their neighbors to let their own Air Force have the nights and weekends off. Passport control when I went from France to Switzerland was someone coming onto the train and yelling “anyone not allowed in Switzerland? No? Good!” I think they’re fine.

khalic 7mo ago

Ethnically homogeneous, you guys really just spew nonsense without doing _any_research? Swiss here, you’re very, very wrong

input_sh 7mo ago

My god, Switzerland is literally the least ethnically homogenous country on the continent (if we ignore tiny nations like Luxembourg, Lichtenstein and Malta), with a third of its population being foreign-born, which is percentage-wise double that of the US.