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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.

    Switzerland

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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.

        • @AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          22 years ago

          Rather amazingly, set into its outside wall on the street is a pissoir. The “Herren WC” sign is a little misleading, as there is neither WATER nor a CLOSET."

          How wonderful!

          • moitoi
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            22 years ago

            This is actually misinformation and misleading. The sign says "WC 'a man' pissoir". like on the picture.

            My link was for the illustration.

            • @AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              32 years ago

              I don’t know what “Herren” means, but WC stands for water closet. It sounds to me like there isn’t any running water or stalls.

              • moitoi
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                32 years ago

                Herren means “men”. “WC” means toilets, the place, in this case. I get the pun but it’s not the best one.

                The water is accessible on the front by the way.