Yes, those two examples were tongue-in-cheek: even with a common language, the people are too different to behave peacefully together.
Even Germany 🇩🇪 struggles with it today after reunification in 1990.
East Germany is still poorer in almost every important way than west Germany
The old iron curtain effect
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This is more like saying Packer and Bear fans dislike one another though. See my reply to K00b above.
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I read your reply where you quoted Hume.
East and West Germans are like bears vs packers fans?
I am not seeing the analogy. And I follow football.
Bears have been owned by the Halas family since inception.
Packers are owned by the town.
Both are original NFL teams, 1920
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