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Originally Posted by BigDGeek
In 1990, the GDR and West Germany reunified. West Germany essentially absorbed a third-world country.
The former GDR hasn't caught up to West Germany at all. Between 1990 and 2010, reunification has cost the German economy 2 trillion euros. Trillion.
This is significant because these countries mostly wanted to be united; both sides wanted it. You're talking about a common people sharing a common culture and a common language...and yet the East is still lagging behind the West 27 years after reunification. I used to live in Germany and people there still talk in terms of "east" and "west"...or at least they did when I was there. Berlin especially.
Picture that kind of expense and hardship x100 if Mexico became a state.
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Comment on the common language, just a reminder, the entire southwest, and California along with several other southern states in the east were all Spanish territories at one time and there are still Millions of Spanish speaking Americans in this country. For the most part those with Spanish and European heritage have gotten along about as well as any other groups, it all depends on ones perspective.
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