al-Hasani
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Yes its the Hot Pot originated in Mongolia.
Switzerland as a bunch of united states has a history of half a millenium, its older or better said more continuous than most states on earth with a couple addition of states throught history.
Its diputed when exactly Switzerland was founded, the date revolves around 1300s but it got its modern form in 1848.
Ofcourse Switzer are a bunch of European ethnicities but their Swiss nationalism is strong, they consider themselves as Swiss and hate it to be called Italian, French or German.
Sometimes people call them ''Mountain Germans'' to tease them and they get pissed off.
The secret of Swiss properity is discipline, honesty and hardworking i have to give them that, they have a big Pharma industry, world class products such as watches, and obviously Banking sector, Nestle, Rolex, Novartis and Roche are just a couple of Swiss global companys.
Mate, what I meant is that Switzerland as a country and a modern-day state might be old (about 700 years - just googled) but what about their culture, traditions, things that made them distinguished etc. before that period? It's not like in our part of the world or the Arab world were we have millennium old cultures that are largely similar of a Semitic stock (now influenced by Arabic culture which itself is part of that) and distinctive historical regions. Just like you Turks share a recent history or at least a Turkic history. Many of the modern-day states might be young countries (I would rather say nation states) but that's not the case with their culture, traditions, the land they live on and their connection to that land and previous civilizations on that land.
I can't see that with the Swiss but I can see that with the Italians, Germans, French etc. even before their nation states were created. A bit complex but that's what I alluded too.
So this is something that I wondered about. Are the people who speak Romansh language considered as the natives or do people not operated with such a thing? Also are there not a rivalry between the German, French and Italian parts?
You are right. Similar traits are found among Danes. I think this is due to the Protestant revolution.
Protestant work ethic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, I forgot to mention that Denmark has a huge pharmacy industry as well. A heaven for chemical engineers.
Mate, can you recommend other Turkish kebabs other than Adana Kebab? Something distinct. Thanks.
@Sinan might also know something here. He seems to me like a fan of meat like most of us here.
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you know that right?
French is a fantastic language. Yes, I know that German is the dominant language! That's cool. I guess that the Romansh speaking people are even bigger nationalists!
True. Those cuisines are all very similar. I think, as I wrote in post 4350, then only the the only somewhat distinctive cuisines in the ME I can think of are that of Southern Arabia, Hijaz and the "Khaliji" (Eastern Arabia) of the Arabian Peninsula and that's mainly because we tend to use much more spices than traditional Turkish, Greek, Caucasian and Iranian cuisines etc. which is due to the trade with South Asia, Horn of Africa and especially South East Asia. We also have something that we share with those parts of the world which is making rice with coconut and dozens of other dishes and ingredients that might be foreign or rare to other ME cuisines. Here I am talking about Southern Arabia mainly though. Parts of Yemen, Oman and Hijaz as I told.
