Comment by dotancohen

5 hours ago

I wonder if there is some sort of metric for classifying how similar cultures are to one another. Are e.g. German Swiss more dissimilar to French Swiss, than are Florida rednecks dissimilar to Compton gangsters?

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khalic  5 hours ago

I’m not even talking about the languages, we have 20% immigrants in the population, and an even larger part has foreign roots.

We also don’t have weapons in every household, if we’re talking myths

  • denysvitali  3 hours ago

    > We also don’t have weapons in every household, if we’re talking myths

    It all depends if you did your military service (which implies that you're swiss) and if you didn't decide to drop out of it or deemed as unfit. I don't think it's a myth really, it just happens to be that a lot of people don't do their military service and thus don't have to keep a weapon at home

  • dotancohen  3 hours ago 

      > I’m not even talking about the languages, we have 20% immigrants in the population, and an even larger part has foreign roots.

    Both LA and Miami speak Spanish, no?

      > We also don’t have weapons in every household, if we’re talking myths

    Only the Republicans have weapons in every household?

    I'm joking, I realise that you are Swiss, but until I looked at the username I wasn't sure which side of the comparison you were referring to. Goes to show that even the nations' stereotypes are not dissimilar!