>Since no one else has written, I will share my experience. I was on a cultural exchange [in Switzerland] many years ago and was completely shocked by their lack of education. Then I was there again because my sister was on exchange in Annecy. The students didn't know where Switzerland was on the map, or who their president was. Most of them had no intention of studying higher education because they all had a lot of inherited money. The attitude towards Eastern Europeans is like in the Balkans towards stray dogs. For the first and last time in my life, they refused to serve us 3 times in 3 places in Bern because we didn't speak German, even though we tried in several other languages. Let's not forget that Switzerland is the country where a sales consultant kicked Oprah Winfrey out of a luxury store because she looked like she couldn't afford anything there.