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• Switzerland. What is Switzerland? Is it snowy mountains? Chocolate, or good functioning watches? Maybe! This are, however, constructed images. They don’t represent reality. But one thing, and this can be measured empirically, is that the Swiss have a very strict hierarchy: The bosses here, the workers there.
  
  That might be normal, due to the organization of a company. Sure.
  In Switzerland, and this is striking, this hierarchy is, unluckily, adopted into the social atmosphere. Into the daily-live if you want.
  
  The sick, trying, and ridiculous consequence of this culture, is that people with a low income are not entitled to feel good about themselves. Meaning: This people, among them are many foreigners, are not mend to speak out their opinion, they are neither entitled of having a sound self-esteem. "No money, no right to feel good about yourself. No money, no need to speak out your thoughts. Shut up, and feel ashamed of yourself!". That is the message brought forward of this culture.
  
  Furthermore, the Swiss credo of social organization is: Who can we exclude? Whom can we give the feeling of not belonging to the in-group? Lets talk bad, lets stick out heads together and gossip about person X. The sad thing is, and I’m sure many expats are recognizing this, is unless one is able to betray and talk bad about co-workers and colleges, one has not the chance to make friends or carrier in Switzerland. Sad, but true.

  komkommer 02 Apr 2009, 01:50 - Report

Switzerland sucks