...yes?
I find both those numbers insanely high, since the proportion of non-citizens here in Switzerland is 25% (country-wide) or 32% ([0], Zurich).
And this doesn't exactly make the country a melting pot either.
[0] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/prd/de/index/statistik/themen/b...
If U.S. is "93% American" then on average 7 out 100 people you meet will not be "American", whereas for Japan only 2 out of 100 will not be "Japanese" - based on those numbers Japan is about "350% more homogeneous" country, not "5%" as suggested.
It is a case of Potato Paradox, where small numerical differences between values given as percentages can hide big differences in real world.
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If all humans migrate a similar distance on average, you would expect that a smaller country that is surrounded by other countries to have a higher proportion of immigrants.
Notice that for Switzerland, you need to use the term non-citizens and can't use the term immigrant. That is because a good portion of the non-citizens are not immigrants and have lived here for their entire life.
Just like Belgium, which is a mix of French, German, and Dutch cultures.
Belgium is culturally very divided: the two major cultures (Dutch-speaking and French-speaking) are hardly mixed, especially in recent times, with the exception of Brussels.
From conversations with a Swiss friend, I gather that the cultures in Switzerland are much more mixed in daily life.
I was saying that they are countries with national identities that are heavily influenced by their neighbors.
Switzerland has never been homogeneous and the recent immigration to Switzerland is very different from regular immigration elsewhere.
It is an exception in the west, mostly due to low taxation for rich people or political reasons.
for the same reasons in Lichtenstein 33℅ of the population is non-citizen and not surprisingly in Monaco an astonishing 75℅ of the residents are foreign born.
If Italian people go to Switzerland they are counted as immigrants, but the Italian ethnicity is native in Switzerland, same goes for German and French people.
The same thing is not true for Chinese or Korean people in Japan.
Also 1℅ of Japan equals to 15℅ of the Swiss population.
I'm using openboard on my mobile and it is probably mapping the wrong UTF-8 character for that symbol.