CHRONIC. Today, French-speaking Switzerland strongly supports centralization. However, it has long been a strong opposition to this trend. For fear of being crushed by the German majority, the French-speaking minority refused to give more power to Bern. In a German-speaking Swiss family established in the canton of Neuchâtel, I was able to quickly perceive the fine but also coarse differences between the inhabitants of the different linguistic r…
CHRONIC. Today, French-speaking Switzerland strongly supports centralization. However, it has long been a strong opposition to this trend. For fear of being crushed by the German majority, the French-speaking minority refused to give more power to Bern. In a German-speaking Swiss family established in the canton of Neuchâtel, I was able to quickly perceive the fine but also coarse differences between the inhabitants of the different linguistic r…