Summary
Marriages between Swiss citizens and foreigners
Swiss citizens marry foreigners at roughly double the rate for Germans or Austrians. There are many reasons why so many Swiss marry foreigners. One, foreigners comprise only 19% of the entire Swiss population. Two, the Swiss are wealthy enough to travel frequently to other lands and are exceptionally at ease with foreign languages. Three, there is a tendency among Swiss women to marry foreigners to help them from some dangerous situation in these foreigners' countries.See the full content of this document
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Do you Maria, Masha, Mariko, Mandisa.
Swiss-foreign marriages are not just about mail-order brides.
Do You, Martin, Take Maria/ Masha/ Mariko/ Mandisa...? Urs and Kimiko have been married for six years. They met in a Spanish course, so Spanish was their first common language. Now they speak German together, although Kimiko uses Japanese with their two children, who are bilingual. At home they all sleep on futons and eat Japanese food, and they travel regularly to Japan. Many of their friend...See the full content of this document
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