> Weird, all I personally know from 80s Yugoslavia is from people who came to Germany to work on construction sites Selection bias. Emigrants tend to be the le

> Weird, all I personally know from 80s Yugoslavia is from people who came to Germany to work on construction sites Selection bias. Emigrants tend to be the least happy people - there's a reason they left. Emigrants are not a good sample of the "real" native people. > My opinion now is that I don't think that this would've been a good reason to not reunite Germany Sure, borders change and sometimes countries get unified. But the OP was asking about unifying the entire world, not two sides of a neighbouring country with the same language. That is a painful thought, we should be fighting to protect cultures like we fight to protect endangered species.