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[โ€“] 54 points 2 years ago* (9 children)
  • People are racists on a town to town basis.

  • One of the official language isn't used in the daily life despite having the larger speaker base. People use dialect.

  • These dialect can vary a lot between regions or even towns.

  • People will be angry and rant if the train run 5 minutes late.

  • The biodiversity is actually bad.

  • You can legally urinate on a UNESCO monument.

Switzerland

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Which monument is this you speak of? :o

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The Zytglogge in Berne is the UNESCO monument you can urinate on.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Rather amazingly, set into its outside wall on the street is a pissoir. The "Herren WC" sign is a little misleading, as there is neither WATER nor a CLOSET."

    How wonderful!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This is actually misinformation and misleading. The sign says "WC 'a man' pissoir". like on the picture.

    My link was for the illustration.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't know what "Herren" means, but WC stands for water closet. It sounds to me like there isn't any running water or stalls.

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