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You should understand (in case you could) that Switzerland is not Belgium. It's just the opposite.
Belgium in almost an ethnicity, but not at all a nation.
Switzerland is not an ethnicity, but really a nation.
When you travel from Amsterdam to Paris, there is no clear cut ethnic boundary, all Belgians share common mindset and way of life, drink the same kind of beers. On both sides of both borders to France and to the Netherlands people are basically the same, there's nowhere any dramatic change in popular traditions, in vernacular architecture or in social habits. Except that beyond a certain line people suddenly chat in another language than their neighbours.
Switzerland is all different. The French speaking Swiss are quite French in mentality and traditions, wilst their German speaking countrymen are über-Germanic in all aspects of their lives. But both groups have a very strong commitment to their country, their flag, their history — and their complex of superiority over the outer world.
Switzerland is a unique case of peaceful bilinguism, possibly because both main national languages have an equal weight. The only trouble is a problem of asymmetrical intelligibility: the French Swiss speak a very clean standard French, but the High German they learn at school is of little help to grasp what their Eastern countrymen say.
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