Swiss may have best immigration policy.

[DBTrek]

Swiss town denies passport to Dutch vegan because she is ‘too annoying’

A Dutch vegan who applied for a Swiss passport has had her application rejected because the locals found her too annoying. Nancy Holten, 42, moved to Switzerland from the Netherlands when she was eight years old and now has children who are Swiss nationals. However, when she tried to get a Swiss passport for herself, residents of Gipf-Oberfrick in the canton of Aargau rejected her application.

Ms Holten, a vegan and animal rights activist, has campaigned against the use of cowbells in the village and her actions have annoyed the locals. The resident’s committee argued that if she does not accept Swiss traditions and the Swiss way of life, she should not be able to become an official national.

Ms Holten told local media: “The bells, which the cows have to wear when they walk to and from the pasture, are especially heavy. “The animals carry around five kilograms around their neck. It causes friction and burns to their skin.”

She added: “The sound that cow bells make is a hundred decibel. It is comparable with a pneumatic drill. We also would not want such a thing hanging close to our ears?”

Tanja Suter, the president of the local Swiss People’s Party, claimed Ms Holten has a “big mouth” and that residents did not want to grant her citizenship “if she annoys us and doesn’t respect our traditions”....

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/swiss-town-de ... 16437.html

[Montegriffo]

I don't know if you have been to Switzerland or not but if you have you would find the Cow bells bloody annoying after a while.
Not saying I would campaign to stop the practice but the novelty wears off pretty quickly.

[Speaker to Animals]

Would make me hungry for a burger every time I hear the clanking of the cowbells.

[DBTrek]

I don't know if you have been to Switzerland or not but if you have you would find the Cow bells bloody annoying after a while.
Not saying I would campaign to stop the practice but the novelty wears off pretty quickly.

Seems like the Swiss have found the solution to Ms. Holten’s Cow bell aversion - keep your ass out of Switzerland.

[Montegriffo]

I don't know if you have been to Switzerland or not but if you have you would find the Cow bells bloody annoying after a while.
Not saying I would campaign to stop the practice but the novelty wears off pretty quickly.

Seems like the Swiss have found the solution to Ms. Holten’s Cow bell aversion - keep your ass out of Switzerland.

Not kicking her out though just refusing citizenship.
Arguing on the grounds of animal welfare is ignorant though. The bells are so you can find the cows in fog and are as much for the benefit of the livestock as the herders.

[BjornP]

Looks like she's right about the facts...

https://www.thelocal.ch/20140925/study- ... -cow-bells

..but there's a productive and a non-productive way to persuade people to change their opinion. Plus, she's a vegan animal rights activist. The science shows that strapping a vegan animal rights activist around a cow's neck, will cause it to run screaming (loudly, because of the deafness thing) over steep cliffsides.

[DBTrek]

Muslim tribesmen in North Africa still holding young girls down to cut their clits out, and Ms. Holtin is going to “learn” the Swiss about cowbell etiquette.

Fuck off.
/shrug

If you’re out to destroy a culture, start with the ones that oppress people, not cows.

[BjornP]

Muslim tribesmen in North Africa still holding young girls down to cut their clits out, and Ms. Holtin is going to “learn” the Swiss about cowbell etiquette.

Fuck off.
/shrug

If you’re out to destroy a culture, start with the ones that oppress people, not cows.

Should be the Swiss that change the traditions of the Swiss based on reason and calm reflection. Neither clit-cutting Muslims in East Africa, nor hysterical Dutch vegans with no relevant education or skills on the matter should, nor need, be consulted.

[DBTrek]

True.

In addition, if vegan SHW Dutch woman wants to go correct someone’s culture, she should focus her efforts on areas in need of vast improvements.

Unless .. you know ... she’s just being petty and annoying in a region where the resident culture has enabled her to feel perfectly safe doing so.

[JohnDonne]

That’s a fallacy used against feminists a lot as well. Don’t talk about changing regulations for cows or anything cause clits are being cut somewhere.

@bjorn: If she has no right to talk about cow bells to the Swiss because of cultural relativity then she has no right to talk to Muslims about clit cutting for the same reason.