[RivieraKid]

1) Perhaps it's just the poor and unemployed immigrants that cause criminality. But still, you can say that immigration increases unemployment and therefore criminality.

2) That's why it's important who can immigrate. An uneducated family escaping from a poor country?

3) 4) 5) Ok, good points, these were mostly general arguments against immigration.

As for the unified culture - I would say that their culture is more unified than in the rest of europe. Languages are not that important.

[tttp]

1) No you can't gerneralise. Immigrants from France and Germany in CH are less criminal (well, technically less arrested ;) than swiss citizen.

2) CH immigration has always been selective, like most countries. The difference was that a few years ago citizen from "rich" eu countries could come without extra barrier. That's what has been voted to be changed.

As for the unified culture,I'm swiss and I lived both in CH and other countries in Europe. We have a lot in common within the country, but at least as much that is different. And language is one huge part of a culture, because it frames how you think and defines what books or movies you can access too.

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