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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