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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Singapore and Switzerland are not homogeneous. [/quote]

Singapore is not very democratic - has some progressive policy, but achieves it through single-party iron fisted rule. EIU and other watchdogs/raters rate it as semi-authoritarian.

so i guess you can 'force' progressive policy/agenda on a multi-cultural populus through force?

This is what LKY, the 'father' of singapore and defacto ruler for decades said once when asked about immigration by Charlie rose:

Lee Kuan Yew: "Absolutely … But, mind you, immigration of the highly intelligent and highly hard-working, very hard-working people. If you get immigration from the fruit-pickers [chuckles for several seconds at the idea], you may not get very far!"

Regarding switzerland, are people really trying to convince someone who lived in switzerland for two years that they have the racial demographics that we do? really?

Are you considering french-swiss around geneva to be completely different (like hispanics vs. african americans or asian-americans) to german-swiss in zurich and the italian-swiss in the southeastern parts of the country?

furthermore more, many foreign born in switzerland never achieve citizenship. They do naturalize a huge number, but the percentage rates are far from US break down.

I like the US multi-cultural society btw. Switzerland is WAY too white.

Put it this way, if hart-cellar never passed in 1965, would we have single payer, a much higher minimum wage, higher marginal tax rates/VAT, more social justice, etc?[/quote]

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