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Article: FAITH.(Spiritual isolation in Switzerland)(Brief Article)
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- Swiss News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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What happens when the values you've held for a lifetime suddenly face rejection by the world around you--a bit like having an expired credit card spat back at you as "invalid"?
Spiritual isolation--a disabling feeling that one's core-belief system doesn't fit into new surroundings--especially haunts expatriates. Is their handicap real or simply imagined? And how does it affect foreigners in a nation like multi-culti Switzerland? After all, every fifth inhabitant here bears a foreign passport. Meanwhile, the religious heritage of these guests falls increasingly outside the state-approved menu. Is this an underlying reason why more than a third of Swiss voters ...