First, in my opinion and experience, Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where patriotism is still not « claimed » by the extreme right (thankfully). People from both the left and right seem to be extremely proud of the country. I remember growing up and until my late teens, Lausanne was full of flags everywhere. The Grand Pont was full of flags of cities from the region (Pully, Renens, Lutry, Ecublens, St Sulpice, etc). Pont Chauderon had all cantonal flags. The Petit-Chêne also had some flags on them (the « spaces » to insert the flags are still on the buildings. In Ouchy, flags were hanging in most of the poles that are now left empty except if there’s a major event. I find it really sad that we lost this « pride » in our region and country, all to be put advertisements on the poles instead. As far as I know, there is only one place where I can find a Vaud cantonal flag in the center of Lausanne (in Riponne on top of a building by the Valentin church), if not in the whole city. We have such an amazing canton and it’s really sad we really have to look in our capital to find the flag the one flag around. When compared to Zürich, Basel, Bern or Luzern, cities in the french-speaking part (except Geneva), really lack this sense of « regional » pride (even though it was everywhere less than a decade ago). In german-speaking cities, you see cantonal flags all over buildings, on façades, streets, etc. What becomes interesting here, cities that are more right wing still show this pride in the street. For example in Morges, Nyon or Montreux you can still find flags. In Lausanne, Vevey, Neuchâtel or Fribourg this becomes extremely rare. What I find shameful in this is that by doing this, we’re 1) following the exact same footsteps of other countries and giving the « monopoly » of our regional pride to extreme right parties and 2) we’re dividing ourselves even more. I can’t say whether all this that I stated is indeed because of a left wing majority government which is more anti regional and national pride, but there seems to be a pattern in Romandie. submitted by /u/Chemical-Rush-6433
Originally posted by u/Chemical-Rush-6433 on r/Switzerland