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...various alterations and restrictions, to products such as cheese and chocolate (but not, thankfully, to children). Enforcing them could be problematic, since identifying "Swiss-ness" is sometimes not as easy at it seems. Just ask McDonald's. Its campaign to assure customers that its ingredients are 100% "aus der Schweiz" took a knock last July when it emerged that the cow used in a poster was in fact Austrian. But then cows aren't the only Swiss animals having an identity crisis. (Read: "Supersizing Europe: The McDonald's Stimulus Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Identity Crisis for the Swiss | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...natives, Germany is Deutschland, Egypt is Misr, Greece is Hellas, Finland is Suomi, China is Chung-Hua Min-Kuo ("The Middle Flowery Republic") and officially trilingual Switzerland is Schweiz, Suisse or Svizzera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: Always Iran | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

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