I'm swiss but....

Yeap, switzerland is a good country if you meet a certain criteria. But there is also another side of the coin. As many of the swiss people living in switzerland, I'm amazed how the native swiss deny the problems this country is confronted too. Social Poverty for example is a taboo that many refuse to believe. Lack of soclial consiousnes towards others is one of the worst problems you can find in switzerland. If you defer a bit of the swiss way of thinking you are in deep, but I mean really deep shit. Once you are living here in switzerland, it doesn't matter if you are a foreigner or a low income swiss (aka "Working Poor" as how they like to call poverty in a "modern" Switzerland). For those of you who ask, yes there are poor people in switzerland. There are homless people, there are people begging on the streets. Why don't you hear about this aspects of the helvetic country? That's easy, the swiss folk knows how to live with appearances. They like to hide facts (i.e. hiding jewish money) to the outside world, so that the only image they show to the world is of the "Industry Perfection". They don't tell you about the ilegal mom that has cancer with her blind child seeking help in switzerland and beign deported on worst conditions than the average drug dealer you find on the streets of zurich or bern. They hide the people that are in debts and are thrown out of their apartments without ever getting a chance to get another apartment. They require to prove that they have had no debts at all or otherwise the real state branche will never grant this person another place to live in dignity. They don't tell about the persons that are fired on the spot with the excuse that the company doesn't require your services anymore. Dismissing a person from work like that is legal in switzerland. This like many other problems are an everyday issue in switzerland and yet most swiss choose to close their eyes to this kind of problems.

It is true, if you find this country rather boring, as a tourist, well you should consider other destinations. If you have the income or the means and don't feel like living in this country, you can choose to leave it. Nobody is stoping. What about the persons that live here because they have no other choice? Those persons are bound to many problems that are involved in the everyday crisis involved in the obsucre side of switzerland. For swiss and foreigners, the worst position to have is to fall into an economic need. From there you are forced to have 2 paths. One which is choosing the "Working Poor" path where are turn yourself into the modern slave. Which means working 18-20 hours a day to be able to maintain sub-normal income. Working more than 11 hours in switzerland per day is ilegal and many don't know what to do or how to solve this kind of situation. The second path which can be more of a torture is the one that involved the social welfare. This institution primary function is to prevent poverty among the swiss folk. But they will only hear people once they have fallen beyond salvation. A person has to lose his job, his apartment if not something more important to be able to have a hearing with them, and then at some point they will decide to help you. But this help doesn't come free like they state in their website. You have to lose your dignity as a human, take long and intensive psychological tortures with threads on how a mom with her 15 year old daughter are not allowed to live together because the Social Welfare doesn't see it fit for them to live together.

I could go on and on with lots of examples and people I've known during the past years, but it would be only makde redundancy to the points I've treated today.

To sum up things, swiss are racists, swiss are all about apperances, swiss are all about indiference, just words and no action.

I am swiss, born and lived here. And I'm ashamed of calling me a swiss after seeing this kind of injustice.

AnotherSwiss 17 Aug 2008, 02:06 - Report