• moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Some others:

    • Half of the people with swiss citizenship have a foreign background at some level.

    • The majority of immigration went from permanent to temporary. People come for a small amount of time.

    • Despite being one of the most neoliberal country, people of the city of Berne voted to allocate money to the self-managed cultural center. This can be explained by the city-countryside political divide.

    • Switzerland doesn’t have direct democracy but a semi-direct democracy.

    • Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus still have a Landsgemeinde where people vote cantonal level legislations using show of hands vote.

    • Corruption at the local level is high.

    • There are more unwritten rules than laws.

    • People keep their friends during the entire life. As a side effect, people can be seen as unfriendly. It can take up to 10 years to make a local friends.

    • You can reach 95% of the country by public transportation.

    • The Habsburg dinasty originated from the small town of Habsburg in the Canton of Aargau.