Should the B.B.C. be critical regarding Switzerland's internal affairs about how it grants nationality rights?

Question

...especially at a time when Islam is making inroads into Europe? Wouldn't you want to protect your culture and identity? Does the right of people to live in a distinct community outweigh the rights of people (with different customs and mores) to live wherever they choose? In short, to what extent should we welcome or reject Globalization? Is it beneficial, and for whom is it beneficial? To what extent must we all conform and be the same?

That's a very good point: Does Swiss identity lie at the canton level or at the national level--it's like asking how loyal you are to your local community as opposed to your state government which is concerned with health care and education--should the state intercede within the canton, or should the canton protect you from the intercession of the state? I'm sure the Swiss have worked these matters out sufficiently for their needs and know what's good for them!

Goddess of Grammar,
You may not feel all that strongly about your Swiss identity, but apparently others there in Switzerland do...then again you've admitted as much; otherwise, you'd already have applied for your Swiss nationality. England on the other hand seems to feel that Switzerland belongs in the EU, but forcing immigration on Switzerland is NOT the way to achieve this! One reason d'etre for the EU is to keep itself "DISTINCT from Islam," which I believe is as good a reason as any for being a Community, though identity should be based on what unifies people rather than trying to keep others out--unless, those "others" have it as their intention to try and alter your community and the values its members share! The trick is to be able to recognize those in your community -- how many of us can even recognize our own neighbors? It's difficult for a country to be both prosperous and its inhabitants neighborly towards one another...if somebody is critical..., let them show better!

Answer 1

Yes, the BBC is welcome to take any stance it chooses.
Islam may be a religion whose time has come, nothing wrong with that.
As a foreigner living in Switzerland with her repatriated husband and children, I have a hard time saying what my (much less their) culture and identity are. I have so far chosen not to apply for citizenship (I believe I am automatically eligible at this point) because I don't "feel Swiss". I think that foreigners who do "feel Swiss" should be allowed to become citizens, in many cases more easily than they are. I don't think all people who want to be citizens want to because they "feel Swiss"; in many cases it's because they see the political advantage of it. Of course that's easy for me to say, since I have most of those advantages through my husband without the need to become a citizen myself.

I don't get how the next two questions relate to the ones I just answered.

I think if we don't feel like a part of the country we have adopted, it's time to move on.


I think very few Swiss feel much of an identity at the canton level---possibly Jurassiens and maybe Ticinese or Appenzellers. In my experience, they identify with their linguistic community and their village or region. (Perhaps since Jura is a new (relatively--my husband's grandmother is from there and she sees it as new) canton which was founded on linguistic grounds, and Ticino is pretty much a linguistically-defined canton, and Appenzell is barely more than a village, they aren't even really exceptions.)

Answer 2

It would help if you could demonstrate an example of where the BBC have been critical over this topic.
Then we might be able to answer the 6 other questions you have asked, in the correct context, along side the main point.

Answer 3

Actually, this isn't meddling of their affairs up to protective ours. You have enormous quantities of yankee businessmen hanging cash into off shore banks and paying no taxes on it. People like Bernie Madoff that stole billions of American bucks to cover it in off shore banks. That cash demands to be accounted for thus humans can receives a commission again that he stole from. We even have circumstances of husbands who've hoarded hundreds of thousands of greenbacks and won't pay a penny for his or her youngsters. There are 1000's of circumstances like that wherein the wealthy preserve raking it in and no longer paying their reasonable proportion. We handiest desire an accounting of that cash to tax them. (More from them and no more from us.) In the US, we are not able to purchase cigarettes from FL and send them to MI considering if we get stuck we pay the change in taxes so why will have to the wealthy break out with hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands. >>>>>>>>>>>> It's very effortless to only stick your nostril up at the whole lot alternatively than looking to recognize it and why it's what it's. The 4th Admendement has not anything to do with stealing from the federal government. If you pay your taxes why cannot they?