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    Quote Originally Posted by moonmaiden View Post
    switzerland is barely a country
    Quote Originally Posted by moonmaiden View Post
    i was being a dick. hard to respect any nation without its own language
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Ouistreham View Post
    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.
    this is what i was mocking. i find it ironic.

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    Despite the Swiss speak French, german, Italian, Rhaetoromance, i however believe the Swiss hav a own distinctive identity, Swiss patriotism and Swiss Nationalism. Perhaps because the Swiss confederation was created by the Swiss themselves and not artificial constructions like belgium, forced by the worldpowers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ouistreham View Post
    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.
    Exactly correct. Switzerland's nationhood is seen best in the mythos of Eidgenossenschaft in the national character. It's a rich history that stretches back eight hundred years at least, from the Rütlischwur onward.



    It's a nation that has stood the test of time, maintained independence and become the centre rock of middle Europe. But has that dissolved the ethnicities? Of course not. It is a piece of symbolism to claim a 'Swiss' ethnicity, what's actually meant is an identity and identification with the binding Eidgenossenschaft.

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    Romansh = swiss ethnicity.

    Others in switzerland = others in switzerland.
    Out Of Africa Theory is a lie.
    http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...88#post3431588
    And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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    Switzerland is a prime example that money can glue things with each-other.

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    Quote Originally Posted by memobekes View Post
    Was Geneva a part of this Protestant "backbone"? I believe the Catholics have more numbers there now. Can someone confirm?
    It was Catholic long before Protestantism even existed. Switzerland was nestled between three of the four great Catholic regions of Europe. France to the west, the duchies/kingdoms of Italy to the South and Hapsburg Austria to the East. The Swiss Guard to this day guard the Vatican.

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