Good, that is one of the lovely traditions of Swiss pastoral life.
I never quite get some utopian who wants to move into a society because they like it, and then decides they want to reform it. The traditions that make up a people have connections to generations past and effects upon the soul that cannot be seen at first glance.
Get back home, Loretta.
> Last November, Holten had her citizenship application turned down for the second time by the residents’ committee.
> In Switzerland local residents often have a say in citizenship applications, which are decided primarily by the cantons and communes where the applicant lives, rather than federal authorities.
How old fashioned and backwards for citizens to be involved in choosing who comes to their community. These people need a strong central government to decide what sort of people they will just have to learn to live with and how many of them there will be.
why I never
I used to live in a small development in a rural area surrounded by farms. A new neighbor moved in, fresh from the big city. When fertilizer time came,the air was ripe with manure order. The new neighbor was aghast...he went to the township trustees meeting and demanded that they put a stop to the use of fertilizer....and he was a flaming liberal
