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Originally Posted by Mynydd

I hear that the problem has decreased a little in intensity in the last decade. But it still seems to be an underlying problem and it works in both directions: Ossis vs Wessis.

It surely won't be as extreme as in the case where some years ago a girl from Bavaria at university, when we asked her about details of the German reunification, she stressed the differences between Western Germans and Eastern Germans, with clear dislike. When I told her that I couldn't believe what she was saying about her own people, she said that I did not understand and that they (Western Germans) were more similar to the other Western Europeans than to Eastern Germans.

Now you would think that she was some extremist or something. Far from the truth, she was pretty much an average Southern German girl.

I didn't think much more about it then, as I thought that it was something temporary and of little relevance, until about a year ago when I read an article which pointed to some degree of mutual dislike still existing.

See this article from 2000:

Thanks for the info Mynydd, but I was more like referring to the Italian question.