First of all lets be clear: I live in Amsterdam, which is a sort of cultural Island here in Holland and has to be observed in its own.

— I think in the last few years the behaviour in the everyday life has changed a lot: the ‘empty luxury’, ‘luxury depts’ and no relation to how things are created (Children even hardly know anymore, where the milk is coming from). Anyway this is a more general picture of what is going on in our society in the WESTERN WORLD.

— When I travel from Amsterdam to Switzerland it is very obvious for me, that Swiss people are still captured in a sort of moral behaviour, that tells them how to behave. The flexibility of the Swiss moral is more rigide than here in the Netherlands.
— Switzerland is more conservative in the true meaning of the word; they want to conservate the old tradition. Here in Amsterdam, tradition seems not to direct the way of all days living.

— While Swiss people try to stick to the rules and to remind people to behave like the written rules tell them to behave, here in Holland people try to sail around the rules, to escape.
— The question is, who does escape quicker. Hi.

— I look very different through this performance of everyday life now. When I came to Amsterdam 11 years ago, I was fascinated by the free way of moving and behaving. Finally I did escape myself of this very strict small thinking of Switzerland.

— Here in the Netherlands you are not told to be great before you even try. You have the possibility to try out something you believe in and if you don't succeed, you switch towards something you might realise easier. You don't loose your face in doing that.
— In Switzerland you are told to do only what you think you’ll succeed in. What a pressure. Swiss people are anxious to fail and they think they loose precious time to try out things without knowing what it will bring.
— In Switzerland you have to prove your quality.
— Dutch people feel themselves already important, before they open their mouth.
— Swiss people feel mostly guilty somehow and they look for sharing the guilt in pointing towards others.
— Dutch people see others being guilty and are proud of their own actions.
— As dutch people are very proud and like a funny life, they seem to play all the time. If a situation is not what it was ment to be, or if a problem is accuring, you'll find a lot of Dutch people trying to invent something that makes it going.
— If swiss people are worried about the surrounding and miserable nature problems, Dutch people will find interesting evolution somewhere on the planet that shows a very positif aspect of the misery in question.
— Dutch people like to cultivate the own illusion about their generosity and tollerance. There is no space for self criticisme and I think that this might be one of their hugest challenge.
— Switzerland has to deal with its small size and the huge differences in the inner political landscape. It would need a more creative way to be aware of its own real qualities and focus on them. This might be one of the biggest challenges for Switzerland, to focus on ITS REAL qualities (diversity of cultural richeness, languages, knowledge) and combine it with a wize eye and respect for creative tendency and towards foreigners.

— I always think that Dutch and Swiss people should really stick together. They have each a quality and behaviour that would be very inspiring for each other, but it would need a clear open mind to learn from each other.
— There are other differences of course. Dutch people are so huge, so big, so immense, they seem to grow above the possible length. Swiss people are smaller.

— Swiss people go up the mountain to oversee the landscape. The Dutch love to walk through their flat landscape and smell the sea. This endless line of the sea is a symbole of freedom.
— Swiss eat chocalate, Dutch salty drop.