http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Blacks_feel_rejected_by_the_Swiss.html?cid=1017892
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Ar...unt_of_racism_in_Switzerland.html?cid=3023446
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23626340
from wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_in_Europe#Switzerland
Swiss people voted a new parliament in 2007, giving the right-wing
Swiss People's Party a consolidated grip on power.
UN Human Rights are fearful of the xenophobia that characterized Switzerland, and condemned laws that target the country's immigrants as unjust and racist. The
Swiss People's Party which has the largest number of seats in the Swiss parliament and is a member of the country's coalition government, drew worldwide condemnation with an ad campaign depicting three white sheep kicking a black sheep off a Swiss flag. The poster is, according to the United Nations, the sinister symbol of the rise of a new racism and xenophobia in the heart of one of the world's oldest independent democracies. According to Pascal Sciarini, professor of political science at the
University of Geneva, the People's Party's recent electoral success is down to its tough line on foreigners, and it is now a prisoner of this strategy: "They have to keep the fires burning, and that means they have to come up with new ideas and at the same time harden their stance," he said. Although Switzerland has Europe's toughest naturalisation laws – foreigners must live for 12 years in a Swiss community before they can apply, and being born in Switzerland brings no right to citizenship -,
Swiss People's Party passed a new naturalisation procedure in 2007, called
Democratic Naturalisation in this new procedure foreigners must often be approved by the entire voting community, in a secret ballot, or a show of hands. A report, from Switzerland's Federal Commission on Racial Discrimination, into the new process of naturalisation says the current system is discriminatory and in many respects racist, and recommends far-reaching changes. It criticises the practice of allowing members of a community to vote on an individual's citizenship application.
Muslims,
Jews,
Buddhists and people from the
Balkans,
Africa, and
Asia are the most likely to be rejected, the report points out. It cites the case of a disabled man originally from
Kosovo. Although fulfilling all the legal criteria, his application for citizenship was rejected by his community on the grounds that his disability made him a burden on taxpayers, and that he was Muslim.
Swiss People's Party claims that Swiss communities have a
democratic right to decide who can or cannot be Swiss. In addition, the report said "Official statements and political campaigns that present immigrants from the EU in a favourable light and immigrants from elsewhere in a bad light must stop", according to the Swiss Federal Statistics Office in 2006, 85.5% of the foreign residents in Switzerland are European.
[61] The
United Nations special rapporteur on racism,
Doudou Diène, has observed that Switzerland suffers from racism,
discrimination and
xenophobia. The UN envoy explained that although the Swiss authorities recognised the existence of
racism and xenophobia, they did not view the problem as being serious. Diène pointed out that representatives of minority communities said they experienced serious racism and discrimination, notably for access to public services (e.g. health care), employment and lodging.
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Stan the Swiss brehs 
do you not see where it was 2%? then 14%?
never mind that doesn't matter. You win.
You seem to think giving the state more power somehow prevents the corporations from buying/influencing that increase in state power...
