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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I’m not bragging about diversity just replying to someone calling switzerland an ethnostate. Jeez!

And I wouldn’t brag about most the US population being migrants from a couple centuries ago because that comes with the fact you practically wiped out the native population.

If you’d like to compare the US and Switzerland without using citizenship you could use percentage or forgein born population. 37% of the Swiss population vs 18% of the US population.

But I didn’t mean to start a US vs Switzerland contest, I just used US based statistics in my previous answer to illustrate how Switzerland is not currently an ethnostate. Especially since Switzerland contains 4 distinctive ethnicities since centuries. Schywzerdütsch have a very different culture than swiss romands or swiss italians etc. We don’t even speak the same language…

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And I wouldn’t brag about most the US population being migrants from a couple centuries ago

Most Americans are less than three generations old.