Punctual Nation in The World
By: Safwan Salleh

Although many countries are saddled with stereotypes, in Switzerland’s case they’re not.
The alpine nation really is highly efficient. And meticulously punctual. Clean, too. For chronically tardy, resolutely inefficient, people like to visit Switzerland yields a cocktail of emotions, awe, relief and a dash of irritation.
For the Swiss, punctuality is important, a bonbon in the buffet of life. It is a source of deep contentment. 
The Swiss, it seems, subscribe to the German philosopher Schopenhauer’s definition of happiness as “an absence of misery”. They derive genuine joy from the fact that life unfolds on time and in a highly efficient manner.

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