Are Swiss people always rude and discriminating to tourists?

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But this true...

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I guess I am confused. Yes, words can hurt even if they're written on a computer screen. All depends on the person hearing or reading them.

At the same time you say you have 'learnt and moved on,' you then start what could reasonably be called an antagonistic thread.

Truth is we're all going to run into crazies and a-holes all over the world. You can't control what they say or do, but you can control how you react.

Sorry you had a bad experience, but don't let that put you off to CH. It's a lovely country and there are some lovely people.

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Although if he comes to Basel I will hit him upside the head with a Swiss flag.

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"" immediately said in English "" ?? Romands saying anything immediately in English ? A new phenomena ! And you jump from a single incident with a person whose nationality you do not know to general conclusions ?

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and what exactly do you mean by saying "the major universities are there" ?

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It doesn't make it right, though.

I disagree that it's human nature, it's arrogance brought on by ignorance - plain and simple. I've had bad experiences in one or two places but haven't drawn the conclusion that the whole country is bad, based on one person.

I'd expect people to give me a virtual slapping if I wrote " someone pushed me off a bus in Barcelona - are all the Spanish rude? " on a forum somewhere.

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that would probably have been me.

kidding!

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Interesting is that you use the term "tourists". Did you wear a cap with the text "I am a tourist" on it ?

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Oh sure, if you want to make the Lausannois angry just tell them how much you love and admire Geneva You also can make them loving you seriously if you tell them that it is nice to look from Lausanne onto the Lac de Genève

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hi

I think its just one in hundred people.otherwise Swiss people are really nice.

u cannot judge just by one incidence.

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I have a camping car, I dont use it very often, so the battery tends to go flat, I got a mechanic to start it (on a sunday, bloody expensive) and gave it a good run, however when i brought it back to park it it was a few inches one side of one line, I tried to park it in the allocated lines but it failed to start, being on my own at the time and trying to push it on my own the concierge stormed down to be insisting I put it in it's correct place in a banseeish (is that a word)? way.....

In the end after her continuos onslaught of something that was out of my control to correct , I told her to 'fu*k off' opened a bottle of whiskey and told her I was no longer fit to fulfil her outlandish demands without maybe causing real havoc...

Give as much as you get I say !

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=> the reason I visited Lausanne while being in Geneva was because it is said to be a place full of young people as big universities are there? no? I don't know anything about the country so I just went for discovery anyway

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I am sorry for the confusion. Many comments here are piss-taking, that's why I said like that to show 'if someone can be pissed off for what I write, then you understand why the experience I went through could make me write such OP. That's what I mean.

And the OP's title is a question, meaning that I haven't affirmed what I think, I am just asking to understand more and to know if it needs to be corrected. Therefore, I appreciate constructive comments rather than those do not really help and just confirm what I think of Swiss people might be right Many thanks for your comment.

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Maybe ramming a union flag up his nose might drive the point home clearer ?

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I have no idea how your French might have sounded to this woman. I think your heading is a bit ambiquous.

I am a Londoner and once at London Bridge British Rail station, I did not have change for the toilet, it was rush hour & I had to think of how I would approach anyone, so they did not think I was begging or might be trying to attach them, I give that as a example to you who lists themself as being UK.

Sorry it ruined your day. People are people whatever country you go.

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Well, to describe Lausanne as a place full of young people is a generalisation. Last time I was in Lausanne was on return from Geneva. I considered to have dinner in Lausanne (Sunday evening) but everything was closed or not my taste, and so I went onward to Bern where I found a nice restaurant very swiftly. I personally heavily prefer Geneva over Lausanne. Even if 1958 is a bit in the past I never forget when my brother and me were "deposited" at an uncle and an aunt in Lausanne. I at that time did not speak French but had acted as a kind of German-Italian translator for big-brother-pasha on Italia holidays took over as the good old aunt only had a minimal command of German and so simply spoke French to us. The good woman was around 80 (in our view zwischen Scheintod und Verwesung ) and so the program was not exactly exciting. While stays in Geneva always were highlighted by the presence of my Godfather at Rue François Grast 18 in CH-1208 and were always entertaining.

Lausanne of course has the Polytéchnique which is the Romandie equivalent of the ETH in Zürich, but I would give far more credit to the Université de Genève when speaking about universities in the Romandie. And in Switzerland, the universities of dominance are the ETH and the Universität Zürich, the Universität Bern and the Universität Basel (the oldest of the pack). But Switzerland does not have "university towns" like Tübingen, Oxford and Cambridge.

Whatever, grumpy people of course DO exist in Lausanne, but are not representative of that beautiful city.

Geneva ? Exactly what many people here detest about Geneva, the heavy Maghrebine presence there, is what I so LOVE about the place

AND, whomever in Geneva recommends Lausanne is NOT a Genevan, that much is clear

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Some people are more people than others!

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Absolut not ,the Catelans know the Spaniars are Pr1cks

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Are Swiss people always rude and discriminating?

Immer.

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Which union? I like the Seamsters best

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Well

the only way to keep foreigners away

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We are not doing a great job wolly ,we have to try harder