r/Switzerland • u/elbrusa Zürich • 2d ago
Best Xmas gift for a Bünzli immigrant 🎄✨
Just wanted to share my happiness after receiving this amazing Christmas gift as I approach naturalization time!
I speak 2 national languages perfectly already and I am waking up every morning 1 hour earlier to learn German as well. I love following rules and respecting the next man.
That's probably my opening pitch in front of the naturalization committee.
Long live 🇨🇭 and hope you're all having a great holiday season!
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u/Lost_Ad7942 2d ago
How cool! Congratulations. I think I am quite Büenzli myself. Looking forward to unleashing my real self in a couples decades (after I have learnt Swiss German).
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u/ndbrzl Zürich 2d ago
But why wait? Being a Bünzli isn't tied to anything but a certain state of mind ;)
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u/Lost_Ad7942 2d ago
Agree. I am already a Bünzli in spirit, mindset and actions (so much so that my mom says I have more rules than the swiss do!) but to unleash it in its full glory, I need the language and an accent that no one will understand but everybody will fear!
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u/9318054thIsTheCharm 2d ago
Next year you'll be ready to get "Kampf gegen das Bünzlitum" (the Swiss version of Cards Against Humanity).
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u/Ozzy_chef 🇦🇺🇨🇭 2d ago
I bought myself Swiss Democracy In A Nutshell for Christmas as well haha have fun reading! Oder... Vöu spass bim läse!
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u/yesat + 2d ago
RIP Mix & Remix
If you want more Kuchol though, you can find him doing work for RTS on Saturday for 52 minutes
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u/digitalnirvana3 Zürich 2d ago
This is mega cool! Welcome OP! We can learn the language together! Merry Christmas 🎄 ☃️ 🎅 🎁
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u/Shooppow Genève 2d ago
I bought the Swiss History in a Nutshell and Swiss Democracy in a nutshell a while back. They’re both good primers on the basics of Swissness, but in their effort to be condensed, I feel like a lot gets glossed over. The problem is, I don’t know what is missing from them, but that’s a feeling I’ve gotten from both books.
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u/mraviator9 2d ago
I might need to get these for my wife so she understands me better. Growing up in Switzerland for 15 years as a non Swiss, and native with the dialect, essentially made me a Bünzli through and through.
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u/Turicus 2d ago
Eine vo eus! /r/buenzli