SWISS VERUS US!!!!!

While living in Switzerland I have noticed many things that have caught my eye and made me really think as to whether or not it was “better” than the way we do things in the states. One thing I did like was the fact that they do not have work necessarily on Sunday’s. Yes, to our Western minds, its annoying, stupid, lazy and the reason I cannot get a decent meal without stockpiling the smelly fridge downstairs. I used to think this way until I started thinking back to what Sundays had been for my family as a child, and wish my parents did not have work on Sundays because the weekend would have been much more simple and a lot more family oriented. And now, thinking towards the future, I really hope this way of life is instated because I could not bare to do any work on a Sunday nor depriving my child from a bike ride through the park. I find that the Swiss are a much more straightforward type of people who setup their laws around their ways of life and in some fashion it all works out and everyone is happy. I feel as though in the United States, laws are put in place and people are forced to follow them; there are no “good” laws per se in the states that our people rave about. I wish our culture in the US did not feel so hardcore, here in Lausanne I feel as though the people know what is right and what is wrong, they know what the consequences are and what will happen, they do not test the limits, they abide by them. Hopefully, someday in the United States our people will be able to see the law as something to respect rather than something to poke and prod at.