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Old 18.06.2009, 16:28
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Re: An interesting experience in train.

I can certainly agree to that MusicChick, one of my best friends at University was Kosovo-Albanian, another at college was Albanian and probably my best female friend back then was Serbian. But all 3 agreed with one thing: (and they didn't know each other) Do not get associated with other youth groups consisting only of Yugos. Keeping a healthy distance to them and having mostly Swiss friends made them successful, well integrated Swiss citizens (or well on the way of getting naturalized; one of my friends got refused the first time because living in the suburbs where a vast majority of crime is being commited by your nationality isn't a plus..)
And I think herein lies the problem, by not having a heavy hand and extraditing criminal Yugos all the others just get lumped in, no matter how well-behaved they are.
It isn't the prejudice or racism of Swiss that caused their bad reputation, it's the actions of their fellow countrymen for the last decades that makes it extremely difficult to get accepted or employed as an -ic. And I don't think it's unfair to apply different immigration standards to different nationalities, the same is done with Visa applications the world over.

@tomcat: You're the only one on this board who groans at my posts, would you consider explaining why you disagree with me or are you just being obnoxious ?
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