Kultur 11 Amanda Victory

Before reading "Breaking Down the Wall" I  would have thought that all Germans supported the wall coming down and would have been happy about the reunification, but for some that is not the case. From what the article said some westerners felt that the wall being down forced them to be less outspoken when it came to issues other than the government. One example was the man who said he used to be able to tell his boss when he didn't like something, now if he did that he would fear losing his job. Unless Germans from the east came in and became his new boss I'm not sure I understand this, if he had the same boss and his boss felt the same way I'm not sure why that would change. What I didn't find surprising was the stereotypes each side placed on one another, the east assuming the west was rich and snobby and the west assuming the east was lazy and unmotivated. I think anytime a country bounces back from large issues like this, like America with the revolutionary war, you are going to get continued arguments. Just like how here some northerners call the south dumb and some southerners think the north is nothing but corrupt rich people.
On that note, almost that exact assumption is stated in "Backward Southerners, Frigid Northerners," in that the German south is perceived as dumb, and I guess they don't speak high German. The north is stereotyped as boring snobs. This is no shock because it happens everywhere, but I did think it was funny that they don't trust each others food or dialect.