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    Default Re: Switzerland: Multi-tool acceptable, multiculture not.

    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    Also, I feel a need to comment on the absolutely hilarious thread title. Multiculture not accepted in Switzerland? Switzerland...? The European country based on four different cultures, who never adopted a monoculture like the rest of us did...?
    I must have missed this post, sorry.

    Anyway...

    They have four variants of SWISS culture.

    They don't have Germans, They have Swiss speaking German.

    They don't have french, they have SWISS speaking french.

    I actually applaud them for this. They are centered in Europe, yet this very proud nation have been able to build up a national culture strong enough to keep all other powers at bay.

    Heck, look at the countries surrounding them, it's not like they budged in to any of the perceived super powers at the time. Sure there are Swiss people speaking German, but Hitler walked his way around.

    It was only under Napoleon that Switzerland lost some legibility, Helvetic Republic and all that. But hey, as soon as the world got rid of him they sprung right back.

    They are by and large mountain folks. Germanic mountain folks. You could use that to shape a diamond when it comes to core strength, kind of like Scotland.

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    Default Re: Switzerland: Multi-tool acceptable, multiculture not.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    Uh... As I got it, that was the will of the people.

    I didn't "circumvent" it, they precisely had these laws to keep some in, and some out. Without having to openly state they don't want... Whatever it is that people might not want in their western country.
    Oh great, so they're now a country of secret racists who do not dare to tell anyone.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    I actually applaud them for this. They are centered in Europe, yet this very proud nation have been able to build up a national culture strong enough to keep all other powers at bay.
    Yet they are somehow strong, despite not wanting to tell anyone that they do not like some people.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    Heck, look at the countries surrounding them, it's not like they budged in to any of the perceived super powers at the time. Sure there are Swiss people speaking German, but Hitler walked his way around.
    Oh look! More jokes!

    Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
    It was only under Napoleon that Switzerland lost some legibility, Helvetic Republic and all that. But hey, as soon as the world got rid of him they sprung right back.

    They are by and large mountain folks. Germanic mountain folks. You could use that to shape a diamond when it comes to core strength, kind of like Scotland.
    You're on a roll tonight, aren't you?
    Nazi gold is always good to shape blood diamonds and it's quite obvious now who and what you are celebrating here...


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