Ciao a tutti,
Sono uno straniero che vive in Svizzera e sto davvero cercando di capire le differenze culturali qui – non a giudicare, solo cercando di elaborare qualcosa che mi ha davvero sorpreso.
Questo fine settimana, ero a Uesslingen (TG) e con mia sorpresa, c’era un Evento di trazione del trattore. Per quelli che non hanno familiarità: è un sport motoristico che ha avuto origine negli Stati Uniti, in cui i trattori modificati tirano una slitta pesante su una pista sporca e colui che la tira le vittorie più lontane. Pensa a motori enormi, rumore forte, nuvole di fumo – molto un incubo ambientale, se sono onesto.
Ora, proveniente da un paese in cui la crisi del clima è presa molto sul serio, sono rimasto scioccato nel vedere che ciò accade qui – in uno dei più Consapevole di verde Paesi in cui pensavo di trasferirmi. Onestamente sembra qualcosa di un’altra era.
Ciò che mi ha davvero fatto pensare è stato il contrasto: alcuni dei miei colleghi svizzeri hanno fatto voce a boicottare prodotti o marchi americani a causa della politica dell’era Trump e delle politiche ambientali-eppure questo evento molto “in stile americano” non è solo tollerato qui, ma qui celebre.
Voglio essere chiaro: non sono qui per criticare il tuo paese. Sto davvero cercando di capire come questo si adatta ai valori svizzeri, specialmente quando la sostenibilità è un grosso problema nella vita quotidiana, dal riciclaggio ai trasporti pubblici al cibo locale. In che modo uno sport ad alta emissione e combustibile come questo ha senso culturalmente?
È solo una tradizione nostalgica per le aree rurali? Una cosa della comunità? O mi manca qualche sfumatura qui?
Mi piacerebbe ascoltare i tuoi pensieri, specialmente da persone che amano o partecipano a questi eventi. Cosa ne vale la pena?
Grazie per avermi aiutato a capire e per favore resta rispettoso!
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15 commenti
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.
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