Posts Tagged ‘nationality’

To renounce or not to renounce?

This week I was surprised to learn that, to the delight or chagrin of many, Michele Bachmann, a conservative United States Representative from the state of Minnesota, former Republican presidential candidate and Tea Party darling, became a naturalized Swiss citizen.

Apparently she was eligible to become a Swiss citizen, because her husband, the son of Swiss immigrants to the United States, was already the proud owner of a red passport. Bachmann’s dual citizenship status was, however, short-lived.

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Typisch Tütsch

Arnold Winkelried, like his compatriot William Tell, is famous for being, ‘based on fact’.

Winkelried supposedly threw himself onto the advancing pikes of the Habsburgs in the 1386 battle of Sempach, crying, “I will open a passage into the line; protect, dear countrymen and confederates, my wife and children!” (more…)