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    I understand your point and it is a valid one. As mentioned in my reply, there is racism, it is a reality and shows itself in many facets. The thing I tried to throw into the discussion is that this is not a unique Swiss phenomenon.

    I don't think the Swiss are more racist than say the Germans and French (judged from the discussions I had personally and from what you can observe in the media). But then again, while this is a regretful phenomenon, this is a weak argument to defend my fellow citizens.

    Considering the hidden part (again something you'll probably encounter all over the place all over the world), I think that's mostly the botched result of political correctnes. You are not allowed to speak your mind in certain topics, leading a thing to boil up until it explodes into something like the anti-minaret thing.

    The same attitude also led integration problems be neglected until a xenophobic party like the SVP/UDC could take advantage of it (nevermind they did not really do anything against the problems, since that would mean robbing them of arguments).

    That foreigners are blamed for many problems, well it's sad but true. Successfull integration is a two-ways street, the foreigner having a wish to integrate and the Swiss to accept his integration. On both ends we have a problem. First, in certain areas a paralel society has been drawn up (location and concentration) and second, the Swiss (as your firemen) have completely redrawn from the process. There are stories of smart, well integrated youth with Balkan background not finding a job (they're not examined properly), of course there are also stories to the other end, but still it tells me that a greater effort needs to be made from our side to integrate them, lest we don't get a situation like in France (for instance anonymous job applications with the federal and state goverments would be a solution).

    It's a long list of things that aren't good, but still again here, that's something you can find too often in all over Europe these days. I understand too, that foreign-born people in Switzerland are very irretated by all the talk of job-robbing, university-degrading and salary-dumping. I can feel that from my talks with German and French collegues.

    For my part I try to change something about this in politics. I'm a proud Swiss and I hate to see what some of these right-wing fear-mongers are trying to make out of it. But still I am a Swiss, I'm proud of my country so forgive me if I try to defend it nonetheless.

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