" People from both sides had a hard time interacting and meeting with one another. Everything was just different for them, it wasn't as happy and joyful as they once thought the unification was going to be. Leventhal stated, "After the Wall these differences evolved into prejudices, creating the "Wall in the Head " among Berliners"" (4). In a place that holds much discrimination and hierarchies that typically took place on the sidewalk, at work and at home separated them and kept them from unity" (Borneman 53), Just as racism has had an effect on the United States, Berlin has the same issue. It will take a conscious effort by the citizens of the country to be able to restore its relations and put their prejudices toward one another to the side. Until this happens, the wall within their heads will continue to separate them with their day to day activities whether it's conscious or not (Leventhal 4).
When scratching the surface of the fall of the Berlin Wall, many see it as such a blessing that East and West Germany finally unified; however, the collapsing was and still is very deceiving. The reunification was very costly, in the forty years that it was divided the two sides had become very different. Communist ran East German official had to be retrained or replaced, along with the modernization of things such as telephones and highways (Schmemann 69). Vasagar made a point in his article on how the country's two halves are still unequal (2). The unemployment in the Western side of Germany is seen as an individual failure, however, in Eastern Germany it is a thing that pertains to each person (Achberger, Linden, Benkert 200). It was stated that in Eastern Germany, "Since the fall of 1989, one out of three workers " some 3 million people "have lost their jobs. The largest decline was in the industrial sector; there, more than 1.7 million jobs were lost " (Dornbusch, Rudiger, Wolf, Alexander 239).