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you're welcome, farhad

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You're actually right. I wrote an awfully long comment on that for http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=7524. It's probably a question of our countries history. switzerland was a republic and for a very long time the only democracy in europe, surrounded by monarchies. our neighbour countries also were becoming national states with one predominant nationality, i.e. a german state for germans, a french for the french and so on. but there is no "swiss" nationality, only a german-siwss, a french- and an italian-swiss, making switzerland a country with 3 different cultures and languages. the uprising nationalism all over europe, beginning around 1800, supported the fear of getting "absorbed" by the neighbour countries and finally led to the feeling of being isolated and surrounded by hostiles. this may be the rason for the strange antipathy towards the rest of europe that is sometimes still observable today. (i.e. when swiss-germans celebrate when the german national soccer team loses or even stranger when there are parades of honking cars showing the joy of italian-swiss about an italian defeat.)

Part 1: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=21483

4:27: "on the extreme right a bottle of Cognac, it's a french baby" - wonderful

Part 2: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=21486

i see two differences: we are not as fluffy and we've got a free will to choose our live to be like that...

Part 2: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=18431

Part 1: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=18430

i think, this one is the original, cause it's 5 or 6 years old... but i don't know for sure.

this is staged. the original is a swiss commercial for a furniture department store. see http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=17891

"Sometimes, it's better to stay at home. micasa (furniture department of migros retail store chain) - incredibly creative."

a home made reinterpretation is here: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=2547#44838

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