word and you can tell it's not like a common thing i don't know if i see that changing soon
i think that a lot of the cafes it's you know it's intentional they don't want everybody like
on their phones and stuff like that but i guess if you're traveling and you need to find wi-fi
like you said starbucks and mcdonald's do have wi-fi train stations have wi-fi
um but some of the wi-fi is a pain in the butt they make you like put in your phone
number and then send you a text and if you don't have a local phone number it won't work so i
definitely think there are internet issues that switzerland should work to solve for travelers
for people that don't have swiss phone numbers and yeah next assumption is everyone skis okay um you
know i would say a lot of swiss people definitely grow up skiing the way that americans grow up like
riding a bike or playing baseball right going to little league a lot of little swiss
kids learn how to ski which is not the norm in in the u.s maybe in some communities
but not nationwide at all but swiss people here yeah they start skiing when they're little a lot
of them if you grow up in kind of a traditional swiss household they tend to go to the mountains
um for vacations and stuff like that i know matthias grew up going to the mountains every
winter and learning how to ski at a young age and stuff like that but definitely not everybody okay
like there are also swiss people that grew grow up differently they grow up in cities and maybe their
parents didn't you know prioritize that or be able to afford it skiing is an expensive sport it's
getting more and more expensive in switzerland so i um i think maybe less people see now than they
used to um but yeah it's it's a very popular like ski racing here is like a popular sport like they
know the professional ski racers and stuff like that whereas in the us like ski racing is you know
i don't think many americans could name like three famous ski racers but if you would ask a swiss
like who are some famous swiss ski racers they would know them like nba stars or baseball stars
so skiing is a big part of the culture for sure but not everybody not everybody skis okay next
assumption is that switzerland is not friendly to kids especially in public spaces where they
demand kids to be quiet now this is an interesting assumption again we do not have kids so i cannot
speak from the perspective of a parent but i find that people here are pretty like free with their
kids i see a lot of kids running around at the beach you know kids running around naked it's very
like it seems like the parenting style here is a little bit more relaxed than what i saw growing
up in the u.s kids have a ton of freedom they take the bus on their own they go to the city on their
own but as far as like little kids are people gonna tell you that they should be quiet honestly
i have no idea um but i find that the parenting style here does seem a little bit more hands-off
than in the us where it's like this a lot of people grow up with like helicopter moms and
stuff i don't really see that going on here but as far as little kids i feel like people are really i
feel like it's a family-friendly place to live um i don't know the next assumption is that swiss are
snobbier than germans okay well this is funny i guess i can try to answer this because i lived in
germany for six months in berlin and obviously i've spent a lot of my life in switzerland
this is a tough one i'm not that familiar with german culture outside of berlin where we lived
and if you compare people in berlin to people in zurich for example i'm gonna say here that from my
experience i think that the swiss in zurich are a little bit friendlier than people in berlin
like after we lived in berlin for a while and then we came back here i i felt like wow people here
are very friendly um in contrast but that was berlin okay i think that berlin has a certain
like attitude and whatever which is really cool and stuff like i love berlin um but i think in
comparison i thought i don't want to use the word snobby um but i think that's the swiss maybe came
off a little bit more friendly than the berliners but i think germans as a whole i don't know
that's a tough one i don't know i don't know enough germans um to make a judgment on that
this is an interesting assumption it is that when two swiss people from different language
areas meet they speak english super interesting again language dynamic here is so interesting
this could definitely be true if you have a swiss italian who meets up with a swiss german they're
probably going to speak english that is probably true if you have a swiss french and a swiss german
english french not sure but i think yeah a lot of the times um that does happen a lot of the
times english is used as a common language that a lot of people speak as a second language so they
choose to speak that together i just asked mathias and he confirmed if he would meet a swiss italian
he would probably speak english if he would meet a swiss friend she would probably speak english
because he wouldn't expect either of them to speak um swiss german maybe on the other
end maybe they would hope that he would speak french or italian but uh i'm not honestly sure
next assumption is that swiss are highly educated uh this is definitely true there's always reports
coming out about like the you know highest educated countries or the best education systems
switzerland is usually in the top 10 sometimes in the top five depending on
what list you're looking at but definitely swiss people value education for sure it's a it's a
highly educated country okay the next assumption is that swiss people have no political views lol
so obviously you're at you're you're assuming this because switzerland is a neutral country um but
this is an interesting question because definitely swiss people have political opinions about
u.s politics as a u.s american people try to bring it up all the time um i think that swiss people
don't tend to talk about politics or get emotionally involved in their own politics
the way americans do where it's highly emotional um people are very very um divided opinionated
you're not really gonna find that here i don't really think i've ever heard swiss
people talk much about like their own political system and climate they definitely vote a lot
um so they have a big say you know in their in the democracy here um but they don't really
openly talk about it and get invested and get in debates about it the way that americans do
they certainly might talk about american politics especially when there's an election or something
like that but as far as like swiss politics they're not emotionally involved most people are
pretty level-headed practical and they do their voting and and that's it it's not like this big
emotional uh thing next assumption is that swiss people love beer they certainly like beer there's
a lot of really good swiss beer here it's very common to drink you know beer but that being said
they really like wine as well i find that people here drink drink way more wine than in the u.s
um it's very very popular switzerland makes a lot of wine in different regions so there's a lot of
swiss wine actually not very popular on a global scale but in switzerland a lot of people drink
swiss wine and um there's a big wine culture as well they're definitely like beer like most
places most countries um but i find that it's you know it's kind of half half you know people
like beer and they like wine it's not like a huge beer you know country per se um but yeah i guess
it depends who you're talking to but they're very proud of their swiss beer and their swiss wine of
course last question this is all i'm gonna be able to answer i even did two parts so i hope i
got to your assumption if you left one um this is that swiss people or swiss police are very picky
my car was stopped 15 minutes after the crossing the border yes there was an issue with my mirror
but that was ignored for days in france and italy so the assumption that swiss police are very picky
i mean i think swiss culture in general is quite picky they expect things to be at a certain
level and that everybody kind of abides by a certain standard they're like you know those
rules are there for a reason and everybody is held equally accountable it is kind of like that
they're not going to be as much in allowing things to be in the gray area so i know with the car
thing i don't know exactly how it works but i'm pretty sure like you cannot drive a beater here
if you if your car gets damaged beyond a certain point it's you're not allowed to drive it you
know in the u.s you'll always see like rusted out cars with dents and cracked windshields
driving around and you know you can get away with that for quite an extended period of time perhaps
um but in switzerland yeah it's true if you have like something wrong that is not allowed
to be wrong you can definitely expect that they're going to find you and tell you to fix
it it's like most things in switzerland they expect things to stay maintained and orderly
so it doesn't surprise me at all that you were driving around in france and italy
and nobody stopped you and then you came here and immediately um they found an issue
because yeah they just want a certain standard and they're going to enforce it but yeah i never owned
a car in switzerland but if you just see what kind of cars are on the road you're not going to
see beaters or cars with like any damage on them so i'm not exactly sure what the rules are but
there's definitely a lot of them okay guys that is it for today's video i hope you enjoyed me
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