https://ca.news.yahoo.com/swiss-town-denies-passport-to-dutch-vegan-because-she-is-annoying-125316437.html

A Dutch vegan who applied for a Swiss passport has had her application rejected because the locals found her too annoying.

Nancy Holten, 42, moved to Switzerland from the Netherlands when she was eight years old and now has children who are Swiss nationals.

However, when she tried to get a Swiss passport for herself, residents of Gipf-Oberfrick in the canton of Aargau rejected her application.

Ms Holten, a vegan and animal rights activist, has campaigned against the use of cowbells in the village and her actions have annoyed the locals.

The resident’s committee argued that if she does not accept Swiss traditions and the Swiss way of life, she should not be able to become an official national.

Ms Holten told local media: “The bells, which the cows have to wear when they walk to and from the pasture, are especially heavy.

“The animals carry around five kilograms around their neck. It causes friction and burns to their skin.”

She added: “The sound that cow bells make is a hundred decibel. It is comparable with a pneumatic drill. We also would not want such a thing hanging close to our ears?”

Tanja Suter, the president of the local Swiss People’s Party, claimed Ms Holten has a “big mouth” and that residents did not want to grant her citizenship “if she annoys us and doesn’t respect our traditions”.

Responding to the rejection, Ms Holten said: “I think I spoke my mind too often, and I say it out too loud.”

Ms Holten, who describes herself as a freelance journalist, model and drama student, has also campaigned against a number of other Swiss traditions like hunting, pig races and the noisy church bells in town.

She was previously rejected for citizenship in 2015 after residents voted to block her initial application.The case has now been transferred to the Cantonal government in Aargau, which can overrule the decision and can still grant her a Swiss passport despite the objections of the locals.

Local residents in Switzerland often have a say in citizenship applications, which are decided by the cantons and towns where the applicants live rather than federal government.

It is still very difficult to be granted Swiss citizenship and being born in the country does not give the children or even the grandchildren of immigrants the automatic right to be Swiss.



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Same.

Who wants to be Swiss anyway? Being neutral, their flag shouldn't bear a cross, but a caged penis.

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When I was in college (the first time) I had a francophone Swiss pen pal who lived in Basel, which is not far at all from Laufenberg. She was from Lausanne originally and she would constantly refer to the native Allemanic Germans as refined fascists and complain about how much they resembled the American republican party (as it was shown on French and French-Swiss media, so who knows). The term didn't exist then obviously, but I think if you could teleport the word alt right back in time to 2009 that would've been the perfect descriptor of the Rhine Swiss. And that was in the city where things are typical a bit more moderate-liberal, get out into the Swiss countryside and I'm sure its only more extreme. Point is this lady knew exactly what she was doing agitating these people and he came all the way from the Netherlands to do it.

Fuck this lady with a monorail. Just a dutch Julie DiCaro who doesn't clock in at 3 bills

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You guys say "would", but she doesn't like meat.

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Saw model in the story so i figured there was more context out there for discussion.



It appears she likes the pussy.

She's full of shit. A cowbell doesn't weigh 1 kg let alone 10.

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man hands

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Ugly hand. Would not.

Not bad for 42. Would.

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Well, maybe those cheap Taiwan-made cowbells don't, but we're talking about traditional ages-old Swiss craftsmanship here ... they don't skimp on the semi-precious metal over there in the old country ... that bell has to last a few generations of Bessies almost from birth to bierschinken.

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if you like Lilith Sternin.

yeah, the older I get the better looking Mrs. Roper gets.

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She looks like Cris Collinsworth in a wig.

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Would.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

One could do a lot worse.

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She hasn't approached the attractive neighborhoods yet, but I shockingly have to agree

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You two are in need of some serious couch time ... with a shrink, not Mrs. Roper.

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you think I wouldn't?

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I think a fella would be an enemy of Tim Hardaway's to not, at the very least, give it five minutes' thought.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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