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[-] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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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