Posted on 12/12/2008 7:52:59 AM PST by mnehring
I keep recalling the bit about when a German leader threatened invasion with 400,000 professional troops, and asked a Swiss leader how his country's puny militia of 200,000 conscripts would respond. "Shoot twice and go home" was the reply, accompanying a shrug. There was no invasion.
I have no idea about illegal immigration there (can’t find anything) but I know they are racially pretty diverse as legal immigration is allowed, culturally they are very homogeneous though. Immigration from Africa and Asia has been pretty high in the past several decades. They have four major languages, German, French, Italian and Romansh, however, most citizens speak the first three so you don’t have a language disconnect.
I love that..
Ping & Bump!
Cultural conditions, not gun laws, are the most important factors in a nation’s crime rate.
My new Tagline until I find another one.
My point was that although there is racial diversity there, the culture is homogeneous. In other words, the excuses some make that race itself is a factor, isn’t true, it is the willingness to become a homogenized culture. When you feel a cultural kinship to your neighbor, no matter his race, you are more inclined to protect your neighbor. When you separate yourself and don’t see a kinship with your neighbor, you don’t have an interest in his protection.
Switzerland does not have the minority populations we have which account for a disproportionate share of crime and Switzerland has a culturally well behaved population.
Restrained they are personality wise.
Why do you think we have gun laws? Racist elite liberals in DC and other bastions of power don’t want the ‘wrong type’ of people to have guns, thus, the law abiding people in various communities are disarmed while criminals, naturally ignore the laws and are armed.
Racist liberals do everything they can to keep various groups culturally separated in order to retain control. They do this while they paint themselves as ‘racially tolerant’ when really, their interest in power is to keep races separate. Conservatives, based on individual liberty, has a vested interest in a homogeneous culture where people are judged on their individual values, not separated by labels.
They actually do have minority populations, not that dissimilar to ours, they just don’t classify by race like we do. As of 2006, they had about 20% foreign born population. The difference, as I’ve said to others, is cultural homogenization. They don’t have liberal elites who have built a power structure separating people and fostering cultural separation.
Which is exactly why the ‘Rats want to keep the blacks under their boots and blame mean old whitey and why they want a resident population of non-assimilated illegal aliens.
Exactly. The liberals need racism and racial separation to keep power. It always pisses me off when they label Conservatives as the racists when it is they who have a vested interest in various racial groups being ‘victimized’ and always under their thumb.
They have no barbarian hordes occupying Switzerland, that is the reason for the low crime rate.
they actually enforce their immigration laws.
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That looks like a Heckler & Koch.
Should it get really bad, we might all consider Switzerland.
Is that a thermal, night vision, or just a long-range scope?
Their postal personnel are issued pistols?!
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