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Stuff XY people like

There is a great concept out there, a bit more than a year old, waiting for eager bloggers to be copied.

It goes like that:

  • take a distinct
  • but still large and diverse group
  • that you are a member of
  • and write articles about all the things this group typically does that could be viewed as odd or a bit ridiculous.
  • The whole thing started with
    Stuff White People Like, soon Stuff Asian People Like followed, and now there is also Stuff Christians Like.

    What these blogs have in common is that they are all written in a humorous, satire style. Like that they make the members of the group laughing about themselves and the outsiders about the strangeness of the group. But not only, they also make the outsiders more conciliatory towards the group.

Stuff Swiss people like

http://www.expatica.com/ch/life-in-switzerland/blogs_photos/Stuff-Swiss-people-like_-part-one-_14803.html

Not comparable with the regular blog stuffwhitepeoplelike.com (or the wonderful stuffchristianslike.net), it is just another view of how an outsider experiences Switzerland. With a focus on what we love.

There are some great ones to be found, like

#9: Recycling
I am amazed at the great importance and emphasis this country places on recycling. In a place with a rather limited amount of land, you can’t just toss everything into a landfill, and we wouldn’t want to do that anyway with all our natural resources dwindling.