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Has Switzerland proven that multiculturalism has succeeded?
Didn't Angela Merkel say that "multiculturalism has failed". Isn't it true that her neighbor Switzerland has proven that multiculturalism has succeeded?
Isn't Switzerland composed of Germans, French, Italians, and Romanians? And don't all these cultures get along very well whilst even speaking their own languages?
6 Answers
- ?Lv 75 months ago
Not at all. Switzerland is a small, but successful, country that has four official languages, but the country is not at war with itself.
Switzerland has no significant Romanian population. About 1-2% of the Swiss speak a language called "Romansch," a dialect of Latin.
- FLv 76 months ago
Switzerland has 3 very similar cultures (French,German and Italian), with 3 languages that are spoken in 3 distinct areas, so the “native” people hardly mix. I’ve not been there for about 10 years, but I really cannot think I’ve been to a “whiter” country, so I don’t think they’ve even heard of multiculturalism .
- Verulam 1Lv 76 months ago
Anon's comment about it not being remotely easy to be allowed to live in Switzerland about sums it up. The Swiss are able to be choosy - and a lot of it is based on ones' Bank Balance!!
- Anonymous6 months ago
> Didn't Angela Merkel say that "multiculturalism has failed".
probably not
> Isn't Switzerland composed of Germans, French, Italians, and Romanians?
No, its population consists mainly of Swiss who have 4 different native languages: Italian, French, "German" and Romansch (not Romanian)
- Anonymous6 months ago
No. Immigration is very hard into switzerland
