Chapter 1017: The Rabble
As we all know, there is no Swiss language in the world, and the country was originally formed by a union of Germans, French, Italians and a small number of local mountain people.
But no one is convinced, so what can we do? German, French, Italian and Romansh are the official languages of Switzerland.
This phenomenon is not only reflected in language, but also in administrative planning. To this day, Switzerland does not have a real capital, and Bern is only the seat of the federal government.
According to the Swiss constitution, the country cannot have an official capital, because none of the major ethnic groups wants to let the other's city override their own, so they simply don't want it.
Blame it here, a country that can't even settle down with a Chinese language and a capital, it is said that it is enough for the rabble. But this group of rabble was born in a plateau mountain range where birds don't poop and pouted, and they were stunned to fight a bloody path between several big countries and establish a rich country that made the world drool.
Looking at the whole world, there are very few multi-ethnic countries that do not have any contradictions at all. The British Empire has been tormented for hundreds of years because of the Northern Ireland issue, the contradictions between African-Americans, Hispanics, and whites in the United States have become more and more serious, and the two awesome neighbors, France and Germany, also have immigration problems.
Only this group of rabble is quite down-to-earth, and they still look down on each other, but they don't fight or make trouble. How they managed to live in peace while maintaining their own principles may have something to do with the people of the countries that make them up.
In the words of the Swiss themselves: Switzerland is Switzerland because some Germans do not want to be Germans, some French do not want to be French, and some Italians do not want to be Italians. So these people became Swiss together.
The rights of citizens in Switzerland are so great that they sound a bit of a.
For example, the constitution stipulates that only the formal consent of 100,000 Swiss citizens is required to amend the constitution, change the country's foreign policy and boycott all the government's policies. If there is any country in the world that comes closest to a pig, it is Switzerland.
As far as the entire Swiss territory is concerned, the German-speaking region occupies seventeen cantons in the east and center, the French-speaking region has only four cantons in the west close to France, there are no separate cantons for Italian, and only two trilingual cantons have a predominantly Italian region.
But there are some exceptions, such as Interlaken. It's a purely German-speaking state, but Germans are good at manufacturing, life is simple, and it's really difficult to engage in tourism.
French and Italian, sociable and gastronomic, the town became a trilingual area with a mass base of German, French and Italian. Because there is a rigid need for communication, so after a long time, everyone learns from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and can master all three languages.
Don't think that you can be complacent if you know three languages, this is just the most basic requirement, which is equivalent to the level of a housewife, an old man and an old lady. Since it is a tourist area, it is necessary to have tourists from all over the world, and it is impossible to master all kinds of languages, so it is possible to learn German and English easily.
So in the town, everyone under the age of 30 can basically speak five or six languages, and each of them can speak well. If you are better at learning and walking through the south and the north, you will be able to learn a few more subjects, and even Chinese will be known.
Hong Tao only walked through three shops, and met the owner of a small handicraft shop who knew a few words of Chinese, he had been to China more than once, and the photos were loaded with several large photo albums, and he had traveled to more cities than Hong Tao, a Chinese.
If you want to ask why German-Swiss people still have to learn German, is Swiss German different from German German? It's really different, and even Hong Tao, a person who can't understand German, can hear the obvious difference.
There are several types of German, including High German, which is generally spoken in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Low German, which is mainly spoken in northern and western Germany, the Netherlands, and parts of Belgium.
The accent and grammar of the German-speaking Highlands are also less uniform, with Austrian German and southern German accents similar, and Swiss German and German accents a bit different. Anyway, when the Germans and Austrians arrived in Switzerland, they were not familiar with it for ten days and half a month, and 80 percent of them still did not understand it.
But Swiss-Germans are born with the ability to understand more than half of German German and Austrian German. It's a bit like the local dialect of China, where people in most parts of the country don't understand Cantonese, but people in Cantonese speaking areas can understand parts of other languages, at least not a word.
Then why did Jiang Zhuyi choose Inter Definitely Ju? This is really not Hong Tao's instructions, nor is it Jeddah's guidance, it is her own idea.
She had put a lot of thought into the land back then, and in some ways she was more familiar than many Swiss. Especially in the central and southern regions, which were her territories back then, she had to know what was good and what was bad.
Of course, Jiang Zhuyi is clear that all are the old yellow calendar, some cities have long been submerged in the long river of history, and some cities have emerged in the later period. However, Interlaken's history is relatively long, and it is possible that it still lingers in her memory.
This is not the main reason, the reason why Jiang Zhuyi came here to settle down is actually a coincidence. She has not yet obtained Swiss citizenship, and she is still a volunteer of the United Nations, so it is not up to her to choose where to live for a long time, but to see where she can go and where there are convenient conditions.
Interlaken is the most convenient place for her to live. The upper-class people she made friends in the small town of Rancho Santa Fe were not foolish, and their purpose was very clear, that is, they wanted to use their connections and influence to facilitate her plans in Europe.
Isn't it that a member of the European royal family has also joined her advisory group, there is his family's private property in this town, and it is reasonable to resell it to Jiang Zhuyi at a friendly price, and at the same time, it can also provide the necessary legal documents, which is a necessary condition for obtaining long-term residency.
But even with the help of the royal family and Princess Jeddah, Jiang Zhuyi still hasn't gotten a permanent residence permit yet. It can also be seen from this that there are favors traded in all countries in the world, otherwise Jiang Zhuyi would not even be able to get a temporary residence permit. However, the degree of favor trading varies from country to country, and the more countries with sound laws and balanced institutions, the weaker the influence of favors.
However, the headquarters of the Butterfly Company is not in the town, and it is true that the scenery is beautiful and there are many tourists, but the lack of a cargo terminal does not encourage the construction of factories. After Jiang Zhuyi completely took over the company, he moved the company to Bern according to the advice of the advisory group. It is about 60 kilometers from Interlaken, the whole road is highway, and it takes at most an hour to drive.
The situation of Jiang Zhuyi's family, Hong Tao also heard a lot of rumors, and it only took a day to ask, he was not familiar with the place, where did he go to find out about these things.
It may not be easy for others, the Swiss hate to inquire into the privacy of strangers, whether it is their own or someone else's, if Hong Tao asks so directly, he will not be able to inquire about anything.
But the flood thief is full of crooked tricks. If we can't ask a normal person, can't we ask an abnormal person? Who is an abnormal person, it certainly can't be a mental illness, Hong Tao is looking for a drunkard, and Europeans call it an alcoholic.
Europeans, Africans, Americans, Australians, Asians, and the rest of the world's races are really subdivided, with eight hands, eight feet, and innumerable fingers and toes.
But what's interesting is that no matter what race or culture, as long as you drink beautifully, you are basically a virtue: irritability, love to laugh, love to talk, logical analysis ability and rationality are greatly reduced.
Where to find the wine putty? It's too simple, go to the bar in the evening, who is the wine putty Hong Tao can see eight or nine at a glance. If it weren't for the language restrictions, you wouldn't have to wait until the next day, and you would have been able to get all the information you wanted to know that night.
The first night didn't succeed, Hong Tao was not discouraged, since he was a wine putty, it was impossible to drink only at night, he had to be inseparable from alcohol all day.