they are snobby, no doubt about it.  They were snobby to me very often.

but my dear, dear friend in Zurich is Indonesian and she gets it almost every day.  

the Swiss sponge off the hidden assets of other countries and think they are well off because of who they are and how hard they work.  In Americanese, they say "He was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple".

My hotel manager in Switzerland during my recent holiday was a first-rate asshole. He was an immigrant from northern Germany, though... But the ladies at the two shops at Zurich main station where I bought presents (all of them locals based on accent) were rather nice. I left my briefcase in the first shop, but (falsely assuming that I put it away when I put the present away) I thought it was stolen when I discovered it's missing at the counter in the second shop. A fellow shopper lady wanted to buy me the present I left at the counter, while the shoplady advised me to go to the station police, but first I checked the dustbins on my route. I got back to the first shop when one of the shopladies returned, too, with my briefcase in hand: she was searching for me two levels up along the train tracks. That's three instances of helpfulness on own initiative I'm not used to, especially as a foreigner.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}