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Originally Posted by _Q_
How so? I would argue that Switzerland and Belgium in particular have more differences inside than Palestine/Israel. In Switzerland's case, Italian & French are both Latin Languages, while German is Germanic. Completely different. In Israel/Palestine's case, Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic Languages. In Switzerland's case, 39% are Catholic, 31% are Protestant and 20% have no religion. I would say historically, those three groups have never really gotten along. For Belgium, it's more of the same. In Canada's case, wars were fought between French and English, but at the end, they put their differences aside and created one state. I concede with South Africa, but when you have such a small population of whites, that holds most of the power, well let's just say things are bound to get ugly.
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Canada is not a good example. Like I said before it's a new world multicutural state. The same concept does not exist in the old world.
Also Germanic and French Swiss are both the exact same ethnicity. The divide between Catholic/Protestant is not as same as the divide between Jewish and Muslim. Especially now. Most protestants and catholics are non-practicing and simply don't care now. 100 years ago, you had an entirely different story and sectarian violence between protestants and catholics was huge.
Like I said before, a better comparable would be Iraqi and Iranian Jews getting along in Israel. You might pretend that the Germans/French are entirely different people, but they are only separated by a few miles. If you can't see how the Israelis, who have more college graduates than any other country in the world (especially female), are a fundamentally different than the surrounding Arab population too a much greater degree than Swiss Germans vs. French, you're being willfully blind.