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> more people with certain skills (if you're filtering based on that) This is how freedom of movement works, yes, and it's a key reason why our country is so r
by bootsmann 3mo ago
> more people with certain skills (if you're filtering based on that)
This is how freedom of movement works, yes, and it's a key reason why our country is so rich.
- philipallstar 3mo ago[flagged]
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- mschuster91 3mo ago> only spends 16% of GDP on public welfare It's easy to not have to spend much money on public welfare when there is a constant stream of foreign money floating in.
- philipallstar 3mo agoThat doesn't make much sense. Do you think foreign money is directly paid to people who would otherwise be welfare recipients? Is there anything foreign money can't do, would you say?
- mschuster91 3mo agoWhen foreign money flows into the economy, it generates jobs, and because there is so much of it, these jobs can be well paid. And when you got a population that has a low unemployment rate and high wages, you consequently need to spend less money on social welfare.
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- wat10000 3mo agoI get hard working and low crime, but why does homogeneity make a country rich?
- netsharc 3mo agoIt's a dog whistle for "if a country's racial identity remained pure everything would've been fine".
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- WarmWash 3mo agoBecause of Japan. A rigid culture and tradition can obviously carry a lot of weight, but usually comes with intense racism as well.
- wat10000 3mo agoKind of a funny example, since Japan got crushed by the poster boy country for diversity, and this nonsense about homogeneity played no small part in their arrogance in thinking they could win.
- wat10000 3mo agoI wonder why this got downvoted. Are we not supposed to mention the war? Does it make people uncomfortable to be reminded of how their rhetoric mirrors that of fascists?
- philipallstar 3mo agoPeople talking about dog whistles constantly state that as if it's fact, instead of them just being race-brained.
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- Telemakhos 3mo agoThe first time I was in Switzerland was 1985, and even then, I would not call it "homogenous." The people at the time spoke French, German, Italian, and Romanisch. Switzerland is an excellent example of the "harmonious" rather than "homogenous": it manages to integrate people from four linguistic groups into a well-ordered society.
- throwaway85825 3mo agoHomogeneous in the modern use of the word.
- JumpCrisscross 3mo ago> Homogeneous in the modern use What does it mean if it includes heterogenous populations from linguistic, historic, religious and even cultural backgrounds?
- throwaway85825 3mo agoWhile it's terribly fascinating for linguists it's generally understood that the languages and cultures within Switzerland are more related and generally homogeneous than when compared with for example asiatic language and culture.
- JumpCrisscross 3mo ago> the languages and cultures within Switzerland are more related and generally homogeneous than when compared with for example asiatic language and culture Switzerland speaks languages from the Italic and Germanic clades of PIE [1]. That makes them about as dissimilar as Indo-Iranian and Slavic languages are from each of them. Helvetia is a confederacy specifically because Switzerland has never been particularly homogenous. Homogeneity explains, in part, Nordic and Japanese success, though less and less the former in the modern era. It does not explain Switzerland’s. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
- tpholland 3mo agoSwitzerland does not have a homogenous population, and to a reasonable person who has travelled in Switzerland I think this is an insane thing to be defending. A significant proportion of the population (certainly for Europe) do not even share a common first language. Significant proportions sit on different sides of the reformation which is again a big deal for Europe. etc
- Avicebron 3mo agoHomogeneous isn't likely the correct word. Shared cultural norms and "harmonious" is often more accurately what people describe when the call a country "homogeneous".
- JumpCrisscross 3mo ago> what people describe when the call a country "homogeneous" The Nordic countries were historically ethnically homogenous. Switzerland has been a multi-ethnic place since like the Helvetii were being picked on by Caesar.
- Teever 3mo agoI think that it's pretty obvious that the user that you're responding to is using the term 'homogenous' as a euphemism for "white"
- philipallstar 3mo agoI'm not - not everything is about race. That's a pretty basic lesson that World War 2 taught us, that you should have learned.
- tpholland 3mo agoWhat did you mean when you said homogenous, given the reality of Switzerland, its history, its civil structure, its languages, and its culture?
- abdullahkhalids 3mo ago> it provides an incredibly valuable and trustworthy banking service to the world For most people in developing countries, Swiss banks are places where politicians and rich people stash ill-gotten wealth (corruption, crime, etc), because they know the banks will never let the legal system get back the money.
- throwaway67678 3mo agoSwitzerland, homogeneous? Is this some kind of joke?