2. Switzerland
Percentage of foreign-born residents: 28.3
Ever since it proclaimed its neutrality in 1815, Switzerland, the number two on our list of most multicultural countries in the world, has become a gathering place for wealthy refugees from wars that raged across Europe in the 19th and 20th century. The country was already multicultural to begin with, with Germans, French, and Italians living together on a small patch of land in the Alps, and newcomers quickly adapted to the air of tolerance prevailing in Swiss politics, only adding their own cultural background to the unique mix which makes Switzerland what it is today.
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