I am a transportation planner and I believe that, relatively speaking, the transportation system in Switzerland is the best in the world, yet the trains and buses are occasionally not on time.
One of the first foreigner talking about swiss people who's actually right. But sadly, our punctuality and kindness disapears. And I got two reasons for it: 1. The next generation... lots of young people don't care about time or kindness anymore nowadays 2. We got about 23% foreigners in our country, which is good on one hand, but bad on the other... They changed a lot of our mentality. I wouldn't even say, they are changing us but rather we are letting us being changed by them. PS: I'm a christian but I don't believe in the book of Mormons because the bible is Gods word and nothing else. The bible says, no one shall take away nor add a part to his word (the bible) and I trust in His word! But good video!
Hey, I'm from switzerland, and I would like to give you my feedback about this video. I like it, and I think in some points you are right. Swiss people truley believe in their country, we know it as a save place and try to keep it like that. So I guess it's difficult for us to accept changes. According to religion, I think there we are very free, but when we believe in something, than we believe it deeply. And about that working stuff, you have to be very ambitious in switzerland to reach something, so we have this so called business-people, which just live for their job. And according to time, even I think this is annoying, because I'm always late and so I don't really fit in their concept ;) I would say (and I'm proud to call this my home but I want to be honest and not attacking anyone) it's really difficult to get to know someone out of Switzerland. I mean, to really know them They are usually polite (not everyone), but they keep the distance, you have to work hard to like really get them, Hope this is helpful and I'm sorry for mistakes
Im not the swiss guy like he described. Im timely , i like my time alone but im not the family guy and im also not constantly on work mode. thats the side he saw. He described us good but not every person from here are like this
This is absolutely not true that a Swiss is family oriented! They are not Italian or Polish. Swiss stress their work - which gives them their identity. They like to have free time, but FAMILY: No.
What I like about Europeans is being about principles vs people in USA who come across as fickle n flakey… generalized but how average people behave in the cities
Most people in Switzerland would think DUde do you know charles darwin ? but nobody would say that because nobody wants to change your sight so dont even try it to others
I've never seen any mormons in Switzerland. I know their first European temple is near Berne... I liked your video though and I'm happy you've enjoyed your mission in my country.
+HesseJamez It's a dialect, also called swissgerman. As you know there are different types of canton in switzerland, as example zurich. And in turn, there are also different dialects in switzerland like, Bern-German or Zurich-German. Berngerman is really hard to understand if you speak german, but Zurichgerman is really easy, because many german people work there and like it's really like german, but with different spelling as example: Kea(ä)se. In Zurichgerman it would be called Cheaea(ää)s.
Timely... coughs... trains in time. coughs :'D Okay maybe somewhere else it may be worse, but the trains here are annoyingly late anyways. T_T And I totally agree with the "Ich habe keine Zeit" ahahha.
I agree in almost everything. Only one thing. Friendly, I had try hard to make some friends here with no sucess. Its being more than a year now... Maybe there is something wrong with my approach... Or maybe with my origin, no idea... :(
well, it always depends on who you want to befriend... older generations may seem reserved or distant to foreigners, but that was just the general attitude on what was considered friendly at that time (swiss tend to appreciate a more "professional" approache). it's true that in comparison to countries like america, us young people may seem a bit more reserved aswell, but if you are a friendly person and have regular contacts, like work or school, finding friends shouldn't be too hard. language barrier may be a problem, but most of us are well versed in english, and many also know french or italian. and if the reason is infact your heritage... well then you're dealing with racists anyway and they wouldn't be good friends in the first place :D
DeGRaTreX Hello, With my comment about my origin it was not my intention to say that they may be racist. I tought that maybe in my "Heimat" people is very extroverted, not shy and that is why it may be harder for me as for someone that comes from a country with a similar culture as here in Switzerland. Another reason could be that so far i am only attending german schools and ouviuosly i met only foreigers. In february i will start attending swiss german classes and then lets see the results :P
+James Jimbo What did you think we would be like? :) I mean it really depends on the person. You can't just say swiss people are friendly or swiss people aren't friendly... But there are a lot of nice people i know here in switzerland!
I am Swiss myself but I lived 4 years in the US, 2 years in Portugal and 3 years in Brazil. Because I experienced that multicultural diversity, I have, as a Swiss, 0 Swiss friends. Sad to say, but I can't really do anything with my own people. They have different standards here. No unity, nothing, everybody on his own. Use up the great fact that CH is made up of 25% foreigners, that is where all my friends are. Brits, Spaniards, Italians and Americans. I am in the process of emigrating to Canada, although CH has its many pros, the country is not compatible with my mindset and since the country won't obviously change just for me, I will leave the country.
+Cordelia Enid H Polite without the very sounds good to me. I think that its of a northern culture..mediterrenean people are friendly and polite and always eager to help. Maybe thats just my opinion
+Cordelia Enid H I totally disagree. due to my work I also lived in Spain italy and greece, very nice people especially the Greeks were incredible.anyway I guess it depends on what you define as friendly.take care
So are they true to their ideals OR reputation? this missionary is confusing something here. I've never seen such pragmatic and opportunistic people like Swiss are! Ideals! Dass ich nicht lache.
I believe the word should be "punctual", rather than "timely".
+Robert Kenyon Anal...
I`m always late, but I`m half Italian so I don`t know
As I swiss I had to laugh as he said, the busses/trains are mostly always on time😂
Hahhahahha jaaa 😂😂😂😂
If you were to use the train in the Netherlands for like a month, I can guarantee you that you'll be begging to have the SBB again 😌
I am a transportation planner and I believe that, relatively speaking, the transportation system in Switzerland is the best in the world, yet the trains and buses are occasionally not on time.
"The busses and trains are mostly on time"... some north Americans really romanticise Swiss life, like it's their Wakanda.
I'm very thankful to hear a feedback like this. Here in Switzerland you can have a good life if you are kind.
„But u don’t look Swiss“
Oh hold on let me just-
*proceeds to have a lot of money and watches and also eats nothing but chocolate*
One of the first foreigner talking about swiss people who's actually right.
But sadly, our punctuality and kindness disapears. And I got two reasons for it: 1. The next generation... lots of young people don't care about time or kindness anymore nowadays 2. We got about 23% foreigners in our country, which is good on one hand, but bad on the other... They changed a lot of our mentality. I wouldn't even say, they are changing us but rather we are letting us being changed by them.
PS: I'm a christian but I don't believe in the book of Mormons because the bible is Gods word and nothing else. The bible says, no one shall take away nor add a part to his word (the bible) and I trust in His word!
But good video!
Hey, I'm from switzerland, and I would like to give you my feedback about this video. I like it, and I think in some points you are right. Swiss people truley believe in their country, we know it as a save place and try to keep it like that. So I guess it's difficult for us to accept changes. According to religion, I think there we are very free, but when we believe in something, than we believe it deeply.
And about that working stuff, you have to be very ambitious in switzerland to reach something, so we have this so called business-people, which just live for their job.
And according to time, even I think this is annoying, because I'm always late and so I don't really fit in their concept ;)
I would say (and I'm proud to call this my home but I want to be honest and not attacking anyone) it's really difficult to get to know someone out of Switzerland. I mean, to really know them They are usually polite (not everyone), but they keep the distance, you have to work hard to like really get them,
Hope this is helpful and I'm sorry for mistakes
Lived there three years. Very neutral people.
as a Swiss I respect your beliefs but I don't will join you. It's nice how you respect us :-)
I'm a Swiss girl and I swar, I'm ALWAYS late! For everything!
hahahah
Haha, that's funny SmileGirly98! I hope that it doesn't get you into trouble!
Wenn your are a grownup it will change
Renato Würgler I am grown up and it didnt change. Lol
vergiss es den wen z spot and vorstelligsgschpröch gosch das mol schafsch ^^
Huga Buga versteh ich nich
Im not the swiss guy like he described. Im timely , i like my time alone but im not the family guy and im also not constantly on work mode. thats the side he saw. He described us good but not every person from here are like this
This is absolutely not true that a Swiss is family oriented! They are not Italian or Polish. Swiss stress their work - which gives them their identity. They like to have free time, but FAMILY: No.
What I like about Europeans is being about principles vs people in USA who come across as fickle n flakey… generalized but how average people behave in the cities
Most people in Switzerland would think DUde do you know charles darwin ? but nobody would say that because nobody wants to change your sight so dont even try it to others
SPOT ON!
Brilliant!
God Bless.
I've never seen any mormons in Switzerland. I know their first European temple is near Berne... I liked your video though and I'm happy you've enjoyed your mission in my country.
Hufsylt Thanks! :)
I see mormons in Switzerland all the time, I just never see any swiss mormons.
They speak a strange kind of German, that Germans don't understand.
+HesseJamez It's a dialect that comes from the old south-german "Alemannic", which has its roots in and many words more similar to medieval German.
And everebody speaks and Understand German there
Yes and actually, Germans from Southern Germany (like Stuttgart or Munich) often understand Swiss German.
+HesseJamez It's a dialect, also called swissgerman. As you know there are different types of canton in switzerland, as example zurich. And in turn, there are also different dialects in switzerland like, Bern-German or Zurich-German. Berngerman is really hard to understand if you speak german, but Zurichgerman is really easy, because many german people work there and like it's really like german, but with different spelling as example: Kea(ä)se. In Zurichgerman it would be called Cheaea(ää)s.
+HesseJamez But we understand the German People;)
'punctual' not 'timely' :)
Bad grammar or choice of word.
How about having 2 - 3 friends and not searching for more? True?
You forgot to mention, they think there better then everybody else .
when anyone is living in comfort. Nobody wants HIM, only wen they are in the brink of death then they rmbr n beg from HIM.
Timely... coughs... trains in time. coughs :'D Okay maybe somewhere else it may be worse, but the trains here are annoyingly late anyways. T_T And I totally agree with the "Ich habe keine Zeit" ahahha.
+MsJoeyJody In Ticino we threaten SBB of not renewing our AG if the trains are too late, works out.
switzerland has 5 different languages (german, french, italian, romansh and valais-german :P)
Valais-german is not a national language :) I know that because I'm from Switzerland and I live in Switzerland in Valais
+UneLicorne Crafteuse I think he meant it as a joke. ^^
yeah i am swiss too haha
swtzerland hates valais
swtzerland hates valais
Trevor Noah is a very cool Swiss man too. 🙏
I agree in almost everything. Only one thing. Friendly, I had try hard to make some friends here with no sucess. Its being more than a year now... Maybe there is something wrong with my approach... Or maybe with my origin, no idea... :(
Well that sounds strange. Don't think that's cause they're unfriendly. But idk
that's hard in any country, especially if you don't speak the language
well, it always depends on who you want to befriend... older generations may seem reserved or distant to foreigners, but that was just the general attitude on what was considered friendly at that time (swiss tend to appreciate a more "professional" approache). it's true that in comparison to countries like america, us young people may seem a bit more reserved aswell, but if you are a friendly person and have regular contacts, like work or school, finding friends shouldn't be too hard. language barrier may be a problem, but most of us are well versed in english, and many also know french or italian. and if the reason is infact your heritage... well then you're dealing with racists anyway and they wouldn't be good friends in the first place :D
DeGRaTreX Hello, With my comment about my origin it was not my intention to say that they may be racist. I tought that maybe in my "Heimat" people is very extroverted, not shy and that is why it may be harder for me as for someone that comes from a country with a similar culture as here in Switzerland.
Another reason could be that so far i am only attending german schools and ouviuosly i met only foreigers. In february i will start attending swiss german classes and then lets see the results :P
best of luck :)
ide erste paar sekunde: züg chömed pünklich ah. und ich: Du kennsch SBB ned 😂
ja für ois isch 3min scho zspat aber für anderi länder isch das pünktlich.
I am swiss and i find this video rather amousing, because it describes me pretty well, although i don't particularly think, that i am like that x)
Gefa Duro haha x)
Gefa Duro tried my best. it didn't work out
i could play this game forever. :)
Also you should have written swiss people, "like all swiss" doesn't make any sense at all
Gefa Duro *rich garbage ;)
we can't be worse, than people who vote for Mr. Trump ;)
This guy are so handsome
Organized, hard working, good looking and very nice we are the greatest in the world!
Ich mues go Arbeite!😳⌚️
+David Richterich Eigentlich heisst es, "Ich mues go Schaffe!" xD
Ja stimmt aber no öfter hört me "Ich bi am schaffe" ;)
+Ghiralink Also ich säg ammals "Ich mues go chrüpla!" :)
isch au e variante;)
+David Richterich Er chans wenigschtens säge :-) . Für mich heisst's "in Schtolle ga", "go Chrampfe", "go Chrüpplä", "go Robotere", "ich han Läbenslänglich"
Swiss people are friendly?Hmmm...
+James Jimbo I know right.
+James Jimbo What did you think we would be like? :) I mean it really depends on the person. You can't just say swiss people are friendly or swiss people aren't friendly... But there are a lot of nice people i know here in switzerland!
I am Swiss myself but I lived 4 years in the US, 2 years in Portugal and 3 years in Brazil. Because I experienced that multicultural diversity, I have, as a Swiss, 0 Swiss friends. Sad to say, but I can't really do anything with my own people. They have different standards here. No unity, nothing, everybody on his own. Use up the great fact that CH is made up of 25% foreigners, that is where all my friends are. Brits, Spaniards, Italians and Americans. I am in the process of emigrating to Canada, although CH has its many pros, the country is not compatible with my mindset and since the country won't obviously change just for me, I will leave the country.
+Cordelia Enid H Polite without the very sounds good to me. I think that its of a northern culture..mediterrenean people are friendly and polite and always eager to help. Maybe thats just my opinion
+Cordelia Enid H I totally disagree. due to my work I also lived in Spain italy and greece, very nice people especially the Greeks were incredible.anyway I guess it depends on what you define as friendly.take care
SWITZERLAND ❤️❤️😎😎😍
He's calling us prideful in a nice way... Which is correct anyway haha
im a swiss and im always late on anything lol..
that is totally not true. All people are different.
The Swiss are bland and totally unexciting.
Eusi büss chömme emmer zu spot :((((
thanx there , haw about talking about Arabs : )
Soooo....Americans are never punctual and dont go to work regularly ..? Who pays ya bills, lol ??
So are they true to their ideals OR reputation? this missionary is confusing something here.
I've never seen such pragmatic and opportunistic people like Swiss are! Ideals! Dass ich nicht lache.