Hallo allerseits,
Ich bin ein Ausländer, der in der Schweiz lebt, und ich versuche wirklich, die kulturellen Unterschiede hier zu verstehen – nicht zu urteilen, nur um etwas zu verarbeiten, das mich wirklich überrascht hat.
Dieses Wochenende war ich in Uesslenlen (TG), und zu meiner Überraschung gab es eine Traktor ziehen Ereignis. Für diejenigen, die unbekannt sind: Es ist ein Motorsport, der in den USA stammt, wo modifizierte Traktoren einen schweren Schlitten über einen Feldweg ziehen, und derjenige, der ihn am weitesten zieht. Denken Sie an massive Motoren, lautes Geräusch, Rauchwolken – sehr viel Umweltalpendmarken, wenn ich ehrlich bin.
Jetzt, als ich aus einem Land kam, in dem die Klimakrise sehr ernst genommen wird, war ich schockiert, dass dies hier geschieht – in einem der meisten grünbewusst Ich dachte, ich würde umziehen. Es fühlt sich ehrlich gesagt wie etwas aus einer anderen Zeit an.
Was mich wirklich zum Nachdenken brachte, war der Kontrast: Einige meiner Schweizer Kollegen haben sich aufgrund der Politik und der Umweltpolitik der Trump-Ära lautstark amerikanische Produkte oder Marken lautstark-und doch wird dieses Ereignis im „amerikanischen Stil“ nicht nur hier toleriert, sondern auch, sondern auch dieses „amerikanische“ -Stil-Ereignis, sondern auch hier, sondern auch dieses „amerikanische“ -Stil-Ereignis, sondern auch hier, sondern auch dieses „amerikanische“ -Stil-Ereignis, sondern auch hier, sondern auch, sondern auch dieses „amerikanische“ -Stil-Ereignis, sondern auch hier, sondern auch, sondern auch dieses „amerikanische“ -Stil-Ereignis, sondern doch auch, sondern auch hier, sondern auch dieses „amerikanische“ -Stil-Ereignis, sondern doch auch, sondern auch hier, sondern auch dieses „amerikanische“ -Stil- gefeiert.
Ich möchte klar sein: Ich bin nicht hier, um Ihr Land zu kritisieren. Ich versuche wirklich zu verstehen, wie dies in Schweizer Werte passt – insbesondere wenn Nachhaltigkeit im täglichen Leben eine große Sache ist, vom Recycling bis hin zu öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln bis hin zu lokalen Lebensmitteln. Wie macht ein solcher Sport mit hoher Aufnahme und Brennstoffe kulturell sinnvoll?
Ist es nur eine nostalgische Tradition für ländliche Gebiete? Eine Community -Sache? Oder vermisse ich hier etwas Nuance?
Würde gerne deine Gedanken hören – insbesondere von Menschen, die an diesen Veranstaltungen gefallen oder teilnehmen. Was macht es für Sie wert?
Danke, dass du mir geholfen hast, mir zu verstehen und bitte respektvoll zu bleiben!
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America Style is not automatically a trump festival
I had no idea. Looks fun!
lol
Honestly, I don’t see the problem. And if you think everyone in Switzerland is equally aware of recycling and climate change, I think you need to spend some time in more rural areas and step outside the big cities. No offense intended.
The emissions are minimal compared to other things tbh. Sounds like a fun event though.
Have you checked for who a third if not more of the population are voting in Switzerland (and overall in Europe too really)?
we don’t have them in my country, ive been to a few tho, they are tremendous fun
Have you ever been to the Netherlands? Tractor Pulling is huge there. Tractor pulling is one thing I connected over with some Swiss folks when I first moved there. Compared to other nations it’s still tiny and a niche hobby.
The environmental consciousness in Switzerland is not exactly equally distributed.
Part of the rural Swiss have their own culture, with very specific habits. It has some common aspects with that of rural Americans. They are often well on the right of the (Swiss) political spectrum but what you mentioned is only partly tied to this. It’s mostly a way to cultivate a difference from the „urban world“.
On the political side, rural Switzerland is mostly UDC/SVP and they mostly side with Maga. Tractor pulling has lutte chances to suffer from a „boycott“
I’m definitely not an expert on this topic and I myself don’t really understand the interest in such events. But what I do know is that this is fairly rare, even in „rural“ areas. There are some events in the summer, such as „Knutwiler Powerdays“ in Lucerne, but it’s more a show and not a competitive „sport“, as it is not done by „professionals“ who only do that very thing. It’s popular with younger „Buurebuebe/Buuremeitli“ and was most likely passed down by their fathers and older siblings.
About the environmental part: the pollution caused by cars, which transport the „fans“ to those events is likely much bigger than the pollution produced by the trucks (and whatever else you may find) at those events themselves. So although it may encourage (especially young) fans to do the same and „not care“ about the environment, it is probably not as bad as you may think.
We can’t make generalizations out of our own little bubbles. That’s the main take away imo. Most Swiss get that reality check at least once per quarter at the ballot box.
i at least know from zimmerwald, that they instruct people to travel together, don’t move vehicles without cause (few years back, there where motorised tables… drive around with a fucking table), reduce generator use to a minimum (i think you can get in trouble now if you use one)
a few years ago teams also started using CO2 neutral fule (bio disel or ethanol) -> somehow this is how you can convince some guys to use bio fules… so if we are lucky, the event helps reduce carbon emmisions over the year…
i’m not deep into it (i often help with distance messurements and the ranking in zimmerwald) but i think they will ban the use of normal disel soon… (probably not for historical tractors, but new ones should be totally fine with bio disel and sports classes are custom built, so no problem there)
the fule use per pull isn’t that high -> traveling to the event is more fule used, than attending, (ok, if you travel less than 1km, fair)
but yeah, many events have much bigger footprints, it’s just not upfront…
if we want to ban such events, we would also have to ban a lot of festivals, conventions (especially political with guests from all over the world)…
Big post for complaining and you say “I am not judging” 😀… Let people enjoy, not everything in the world need to follow your views.
Einen Stock im Arsch haben
Bedeutungen:
umgangssprachlich, derb:
[1] eine mangelnde Gewandtheit und Körperbeherrschung haben, über eine steife
Körperhaltung verfügen
[2] sich nicht unbefangen/locker/entspannt verhalten
You have a false vision of our country I think.
Bla bla bla-bla-bla.
Thank you for your visit 😊
Go home to your “climate friendly” country please.
Ask yourself – you get a tractor for half a million from the swiss tax payers. Are you going to show it off to your cows or at the tractor pulling event where the hot Regula from the neighboring farm might attend.
Please go and have some fun! Most of us don’t see the problem here… it’s not an everyday event btw.
Pluralism is a thing here – linguistic, cultural and political pluralism.
Rural-urban divide as a global phenomenon doesn‘t stop at the Swiss border, either.
If you were expecting a monoculture, this is probably not going to be the last time reality is going to clash with that particular expectation.
They will stay there until the smoke is white
Rednecks gonna redneck..
It’s fun. The pollution argument is absolutely nonsense. Plus, the average Swiss is often pro America, don’t get biased by a small sample of people you talked to.
What climate crisis are we talking about here?
Why not????
Wtf is your problem.
That’s awesome. I wish I was there!
Your cultural associations with tractor pulling are understandable but inaccurate. Tractor pulling is a redneck thing. And boy do we have rednecks here in Switzerland. It’s not directly related to coal rolling and similar practices directly designed to spit environmental concerns in the face. We have climate deniers and similar lunatics here as well, but fortunately much fewer than in the US.
The smoke clouds you see are probably bad for the environment, but more in a local pollution sense, because none of those motors have cats. But especially concerning climate change, motor sport just doesn’t make a relevant contribution. In general, I am not a fan of pointing fingers at small-scale emissions by individuals, because it causes political division and detracts from the much more important conversations around the big polluters: Energy, meat, cars and planes, in that order.
You think banning this helps with the climate crisis?
How naive. ☺️
You are overthinking this…