This comes across as preferring Switzerland not to be… Swiss.
Switzerland absolutely embraces linguistic diversity… but it expects you to be integrated where you live as well as in the broader country.
In the end this discussion is going nowhere. You’re focused on how you’d like Switzerland to be more like other countries, most others here appreciate Switzerland precisely because it’s different.
I still think you might get a bonus point if you start your English corporate emails with “hello together”.
Forget Switzerland for a moment. Ask yourself rationally whether it makes sense to require fluency in a language spoken in an area the size of the Province of Milan in order to become part of the country. My rational answer is no; yours is yes. And that’s perfectly fine, we don’t need to agree.
That said, I understand the Swiss identity and everything that comes with it, and I genuinely respect it. About integration, I even bought a Swiss flag 
You get to vote in that province and some of the items decided at that level have more influence on the life of the people there than what happens in Bern…
Edit: Anyway, none of that is in my hands. Good luck on your naturalization process.
Thanks. My current goal is to reach level B1 (German) by end next year 
I’d encourage you to not forget Switzerland but instead to download Der Bund kurz erklärt and read it and reflect on it. Switzerland is very diverse and that’s even aside from the proportionally high number of non-Swiss living here. This makes proper integration all the more important in order to maintain Switzerlands greatness. It seems like you’re less of a fan of Switzerland than some others and therefore for you it’s just another country. Fine. And, yes, it makes sense to speak the language of your community. If it didn’t and people would ignore it, over time it would become a German only country.
Do let us know how your interview goes 
Off topic. Is it true that few / some / many Swiss Germans “dislike” people from Ticino, or is that just a myth?
You mean, dislike them more than people from Zurich? Probably, you always find some people doing something.
Any tax advantage is forbidden by our Constitution :
1 Les principes généraux régissant le régime fiscal, notamment la qualité de contribuable, l’objet de l’impôt et son mode de calcul, sont définis par la loi.
2 Dans la mesure où la nature de l’impôt le permet, les principes de l’universalité, de l’égalité de traitement et de la capacité économique doivent, en particulier, être respectés.
3 La double imposition par les cantons est interdite. La Confédération prend les mesures nécessaires.
People from Kanton x tend to dislike people from all other Kantons.
With two major exceptions:
JU since we forget they exist
AI…
omg I just noticed we have a Kanton named AI… isn’t that super cool…
Well AI because there are no people there, just rental cars. And certainly AI robots breeding.
Their house their rules my man
Are you sure you have lived in Belgium before?
That’s funny. I mainly hear people in the French speaking part complain about people in the German speaking part (“it’s so much better in the French part”-chauvinism). I’ve not experienced people in the German speaking part being pre-occupied by (criticizing) other parts. Having said that, my Swiss wife can be quite clear about her contempt for people from some Kantons (especially when driving and seeing certain license plates).
Well, Swiss-German don’t really care about sub-Swiss people as long as they remain in their position.
I’d say it’s a myth. They might think that’s they complain a lot or that they are moisier maybe, but dislike is a strong word.. They might be taken less seriously maybe?
Yes, that’s kind of what I’ve observed as well. A kind of “whatever, don’t care” view.
It’s interesting to see this work so well here vs. e.g. my experience living in Belgium which is a highly disfunctional country.
ahah that is a classic.
I was on a bus around Zurich the other day, and I saw an older man shouting in German at a younger guy from Ticino, who was responding in Italian. They clearly weren’t understanding each other, but the argument was pretty heated anyway. I later asked to some Swiss-German colleagues about it, and they told me that people from Ticino are sometimes not well regarded because they’re seen as “following their own rules.” I don’t have a personal opinion on this, I was just curious to hear your perspective
Yes, and I can tell you that the French- and Dutch-speaking sides disagree on practically everything, and the country is held together mostly because they would not know what to do with Brussels in case of a split. There’s also a German-speaking community, although many people aren’t even aware it exists.
True in some sense, but I have seen waay worse than that, e.g., Italy
And it did help! I recently received the letter confirming my approval. Kanton/Gemeinde has a month to object (which would be very unlikely) and then there’s some bureaucratic steps to wait for but in all likelihood I’ll have my Swiss passport in hand at worst 6 months after handing in my application. It’s been an extremely smooth process (sofar) and hasn’t cost me that much CHF either.
6 months?!?
It took me 9 months!
Ok, ok, I was in utero during that time and I did personally not really do much at all towards it.
Uh, yes, certainly, er … I’ll see myself out.
So back to the (fiscal) advantage question. My understanding is the primary CHF benefit just comes from updating your car insurance and getting a discount (read: normal price) for being Swiss?