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    • 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.

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      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.