Depends on your definition of a small community; which you failed to define?

The community I moved into in 1997 had 3,000 residents.
As an example of integration, today we visited a local wine bar and ordered a bottle of red wine; the owner gave us a second bottle "as it is almost Christmas".
We are "per du" with most of our GemeindeRat and also with retired members. I only went through the "Swiss Einbürgerung" process because the members of our Gemeinderat pressured me to do this.

Walking our dogs is a real pain because three times a day I make a short walk (once a day longer ca. two or three kilometres) with our dogs which short walk is supposed to last about a half hour but so many people want to stop and chat then I am lucky to get home in an hour or more!

cm?? no wonder you have a problem!

Bicycle, stop creating new usernames!

In that case, how do you explain the same reaction that our fellow new neighbours experienced, one of whom is half-Indian, another is Japanese (with a Portuguese husband), and yet another is a Portuguese-Australian couple?

Oh you can't, because you are a fu*kwit with ridiculous preconceptions and generalisations about the Swiss.

We're discussing Switzerland and I suspect you've been in here long enough to know what it means. Or maybe not, which would explain your previous response.
And you've had no problem pissing some off because you always have others you can rely upon. That was your argument, after all.

what happened was that the more expensive bag was on the top of the shelf and the sales rep said: the one you look at is the same bag like up there, the one up just has another zipper infront. ergo she wanted to avoid to climb up, get it for her and then she isnt buying it. it was all about laziness! this woman works at trois pomme for years and can 100% tell if you can pay for stuff by just looking at the insignials like clothes and jewellery you are wearing or the by the handbag or shoes(brand) you have. it was just a bad coincidence and oprah just being a simple customer.

Honestly, sounds like it is you

Swiss people are racialists.As a Chinese man,nearly once a week,Swiss people laugh at me,when i am walking with my wife who is Swiss.Such terrible racial laughes and jokes in front of my face,that i feel like they put a knife into my heart every time .

I don't know what is wrong with being Asain.Really.

They have a penchant for necrotic posting.

Just throw them a "gruezi mitenand" in their face and they'll be humbled.

I'll ask my wife, her ex was Asian, I'm sure that's why she divorced him.

Tom

Well, for her sake, i certainly hope it wasn't for you !!!

Maybe you and ohmy can commiserate together.

https://www.englishforum.ch/complain...itzerland.html

I really can't believe that anyone is going to walk up to a couple of strangers on a public street and make a joke about them and laugh. There are plenty of Swiss men with Asian wives here so I can't think it would bother them if things are the other way around unless it hits their manly macho pride that a Swiss (and how do they know she's Swiss?) woman would choose an Asian over a Swiss man.

And what does your wife say when this supposedly happens in public view?

I mean when we walk.They laugh at me.I never experince this in France or Germany.Only in Switzerland. When we were in the boat, a group of young people at the bank made jokes so lould, my father in law was there as well.
And two days ago in Lucerne at the bank a young coupld laughed at me so loud. You never experience this,of course you will not believe.

And exactly how do you know they're laughing at you?

EDIT: crossed with Medea Fleecestealer's post.

What does your Swiss wife think about what is happening?

It is at least possible that you might, without realising it, be doing something that is considered offensive or odd or amusing in Switzerland, but not in your home country. If that is the case, then what you feel to be people laughing at you might be a reaction not to your race, but to some aspect of your behaviour, that is different from the general cultural expectation here.

Can your wife suggest anything that you could do, to improve the interactions?

Olygirl's suggestion sounds good, for example:

No, I've never experienced this, and I have Asian step-children, nieces, nephews and grandchildren with whom I am often out and about with.

Tom

Perhaps, in your culture, it might be offensive to laugh when meeting someone. So, if you see someone with their mouths open, their teeth showing, and a loud laughing voice, then to you, maybe, that might seem like bad behaviour in itself. In Switzerland, it is quite common to laugh out loud, in public. It is possible that the people you see laughing are doing so about something that has nothing to do with you.

A very good Swiss friend of mine married a Japanese fellow. She has often told me how often this kind of crap happens. Both her daughters (27 &30)were born here, and are as Swiss as they come - they grew up facing this, but speaking perfect Swiss German (and both being as feisty as their mother) they can reply with a suitably snarky response.

The last time we talked about it the daughters both said it still happens every now and then, but not as often as when they were little.

It does happen.

@yangpopov: you'd face a certain amount of this crap even if you were Caucasian (I did). My strategy was to get a Swiss passport at the very first opportunity, and carry my id all the time. Whenever someone gives me "You don't belong here" crap I just take out my ID and say (In German) "I chose to have this, you just happened to be born on this bit of rock, asshole.". It won't change the racist in any fundamental way (though it will shut him up for a moment), but you will get the odd appreciative nod from other Swiss.

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If everyone you know agrees with you consistently, they are either not listening, or not capable of critical thought.

What do they think it is about?
Specifically, what is the "laughing" for, or what causes it?

Is there anything they can do that lessens the impact, for them?