• PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    This is kinda excessively insulting and ignorant.

    All my ancestors came to the US as poor white trash. The Irish ones were being actively starved.

    Switzerland is like 80% ethnic “Swiss” and the rest of it is Italian, French, and German.

    Honestly, to an American, European ethnic uniformity is bizarre. You’re so white and seem to think because you have Othello, you’re diverse.

    • Jiral@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      An American saying he has never been to Europe, without saying he has never been to Europe.

      Barely 2/3 of the population of Zürich is even born in Switzerland. It is true however that most of the immigration is from the EU. But Zürich (and Switzerland in general) is rather the outlier here. Big European cities tend to be anything but ethnically homogenous, certainly not in Western Europe. What is however true is that Europeans don’t tend to think in skin colours but ethnic backgrounds, at least those who aren’t Nazis.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Huh? The Swiss are Italian, French, German and Romansch speakers. They are also divided along Protestant and Catholic lines. Switzerland is far more diverse and divided than people care to realise. They even had a civil war because of this. What made them live in harmony altogether is because of the agreed power sharing after the conflict. Iirc, the governing parties must represent the four linguistic groups.

  • jdr@lemmy.ml
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    22 hours ago

    If it’s so great why didn’t you stay there?

    Oh you enjoy travel and are able to go where you please?

    That’s cool, thanks for the content.

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        19 hours ago

        Does that mean that I’m from a bathroom at all van halen concert, or from the specific concert venue bathroom?