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[sovay]

I feel as though it must signify something that the Schweizerische Volkspartei's breathtakingly anti-Islamic poster (and its successful vote) came out in the same year as images of Nazism are being flung nonchalantly around the American political arena, but past the absolute failure of historical memory, I'm not sure what that something might be.

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[sovay]

As a frequent visitor to Switzerland in the Seventies and Eighties, I can report that Swiss xenophobia is nothing new.

I may be more depressed that I'm not surprised than depressed by the fact itself . . .

A nice place to bank, but you wouldn't want to live there. (As I discovered.)

What were you doing in Switzerland at the time?

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

Visiting in tow with my father, who required the contacts as cred for morphing from "white-collar criminal" to "SUPER white-collar" criminal. I spent many afternoons abandoned in cold, quiet hotel rooms while he met with bankers, watching incomprehensible TV that oocasionally featured topless women.

I found almost no one my own age with whom to play. I'm convinced that if the Swiss have children, they keep them locked up somewhere.