Swissization

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Swissisation describes - sometimes jokingly - an approximation of the situation in Switzerland .

Primarily in political and constitutional matters there is talk of a swiss. In particular, it is about the coexistence and cooperation of different language groups. The term also refers to the small-scale organization of communities .

From a historical point of view, there is also talk of a fusion of state structures which later actually joined the Swiss Confederation.

In addition, the term appears again in numerous other areas of public or private life.

In contrast to some other terms, which describe a transculturation and are sometimes used pejoratively, the term “Swissization” usually means a development that is viewed positively from the perspective of foreign countries.

Quotes

  • «A people is Swiss when it has lost its natural special feeling for the well-being and woe of its nationality and thereby its natural inner resistance, its natural unconscious endeavors to defend itself against harmful external influences. […] The Swiss trend is therefore also evident in questions in which Judaism cannot be ascribed a direct influence, even if there it favors what is useful to it as much as possible, e.g. B. in the national leader question . "
  • "The world will either end or become Swiss." ( Friedrich Dürrenmatt )
  • "Switzerland would only do Europe good." ( Michael Schindhelm , Die Welt , March 6, 2001)
  • «Skepticism can find its element in politics, namely insofar as politics is always about what is provisional and what is now required, not about the ultimate things. Neither in skepticism nor in politics - contrary to the statements of numerous politicians - is it about definitive truths, but about the preliminary, the possible. Such skepticism would have a tendency towards democratic politics and pluralistic forms of society. Because it lives out of the presumption that in the absence of truths no one should be forced into any truths. The practical consequence would not be Americanization, but the Swissization of the world. " Andreas Urs Sommer : The Art of Doubt. Instructions for skeptical thinking . Munich: CH Beck Verlag, 2nd edition, 2007, p. 79

See also

literature

References

  1. ↑ Hans von Liebig : The Switzerland of the German people . Hammer-Verlag , Leipzig 1928, p. 74f.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Collected Works , Vol. 4, page 611, Diogenes Verlag, 1993.