switzerland? we’re 25% non-citizens which is the highest rate in europe (excluding microstates). Has caused some reactionary stuff though hence the rise of the racist far right party.
That’s compared to 7-8% of the US population for example. Or 12% of the German population (though getting german citizenship is easier than getting swiss citizenship).
Refusing to give citizenship to residents isn’t a point in the country’s favor.
That’s compared to 7-8% of the US population for example.
If you want to get historical, the US is north of 99% migrants. But setting aside the politics of generational migration, we also have birthright citizenship and marital citizenship laws that naturalize people at a far more consistent rate. And we have an enormous territory, such that you can move from New York to California or Puerto Rico to Alaska and still enjoy citizenship.
What do you call a huge influx of East Coasters into Texas, Colorado, and Arizona if not migration?
Let me know when the majority of the Swiss population is French, and then you can brag about your diversity.
Yes that’s definitely a part. But we also score far higher than other european countries on percentage of forgien born population and a bunch of other metrics. You can’t deny Switzerland is extremely multicultural.
Though our diversity tends to be majoritarily european and western. I think we have a smaller black or arab population than our neighbours.
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I just kind of assumed they already enforced an ethnostate tbh
switzerland? we’re 25% non-citizens which is the highest rate in europe (excluding microstates). Has caused some reactionary stuff though hence the rise of the racist far right party.
That’s compared to 7-8% of the US population for example. Or 12% of the German population (though getting german citizenship is easier than getting swiss citizenship).
Refusing to give citizenship to residents isn’t a point in the country’s favor.
If you want to get historical, the US is north of 99% migrants. But setting aside the politics of generational migration, we also have birthright citizenship and marital citizenship laws that naturalize people at a far more consistent rate. And we have an enormous territory, such that you can move from New York to California or Puerto Rico to Alaska and still enjoy citizenship.
What do you call a huge influx of East Coasters into Texas, Colorado, and Arizona if not migration?
Let me know when the majority of the Swiss population is French, and then you can brag about your diversity.
tbf a big reason for our high share of non-citizens is just that citizenship is much harder to acquire than in most other places
Yes that’s definitely a part. But we also score far higher than other european countries on percentage of forgien born population and a bunch of other metrics. You can’t deny Switzerland is extremely multicultural.
Though our diversity tends to be majoritarily european and western. I think we have a smaller black or arab population than our neighbours.