Switzerland seeks a new national anthem to replace religious references with secular values

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[QUOTE=Gogeta SS4;41708373]imo it should be kept as is just for history's sake.[/QUOTE]

Yeah why don't we abolish the female suffrage again for historical reasons? We only have it since 1971 so it has to be some new-fashioned joke.

Just because something has been a certain way for some time it does not have to stay that way.
You know... progress

[Gordon Frohm]

[QUOTE=Tuskin;41707772]Germany had the same problem, [B]first 3 stanzas were about how much better they were then everyone else[/B]. Luckily the last stanza made no claims and now they use that.[/QUOTE]

except that's a common misconception:
[QUOTE]The line "Germany, Germany above all" meant that the most important goal of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorm%C3%A4rz"]Vormärz[/URL] revolutionaries should be a unified Germany overcoming the perceived anti-liberal [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinstaaterei"]Kleinstaaterei[/URL]. Along with the Flag of Germany, it was one of the symbols of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848_in_the_German_states"]March Revolution of 1848[/URL].[/QUOTE]

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Though using the first Stanza would make so sense for the Federal Republic of Germany because it mentions "[...]From the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse_River"]Meuse[/URL] to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neman_River"]Memel[/URL], From the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adige"]Adige[/URL] to the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Belt"]Belt[/URL],[...]" Which doesn't correspond to the geographical Germany we have now.

Also:
[QUOTE]During the Nazi era, only the first stanza was used, followed by the SA song "Horst-Wessel-Lied". The anthem was played at occasions of great national significance, such as the opening of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, when Hitler and his entourage, along with the Olympic officials, walked into the stadium amid a chorus of three thousand Germans singing the Deutschlandlied. In this way, the first verse of the anthem became closely identified with the Nazi regime.[/QUOTE]
Source is obviously [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied"]Wikipedia[/URL].

[editline]4th August 2013[/editline]

*using the first Stanza would make [U][B]n[/B][/U]o sense (can't seem to edit this post without everything disappearing)

[Moustacheman]

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;41696317]UK needs a new one too "God Save the Queen"[/QUOTE]

Science and Math Save the Prime Minister and his Parliament.