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Originally Posted by woodrow
It's interesting reading the comments on Berlin. Basically you could cut and paste them from something written in a non-Berlin newspaper at any period. To the best of my knowledge Berlin has always been a bit of an outlier in Germany. It must be because of some resentment/irritation/frustration(?) with the Prussians being the "winners" in unification. It's like team Wittelsbach (and others) are still pissed at team Hohenzollern 150 years later.
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Kind of, yeah.
Modern-day Germany doesn't really have Prussian roots, but Berlin does. Remember that Germany didn't "reunify", rather (non-Prussian) West Germany absorbed (Prussian) East Germany.
It feels like another country. And the Cold War division widened the cultural gap. But I don't think Germans are "pissed" at Berlin, they just don't identify with it. I have elderly German relatives that have never been to Berlin, but they've been to Paris countless times.