Think of the Swiss market for Bernina as about the same size as the market of one US state. Still, you'd think a certain amount of pride would come into this.
I bet if we take any modern sewing machine apart we'll find parts from more than a dozen different countries.
When the automatic controls of the heating system in my local school broke down, the part to repair it had to come from Denmark, even though the company was English. It took the Danes three weeks, so I bet they got it from somewhere else around the world.
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