Thursday, May 25, 2017
Walking Man
When Adam was giving us the tour around the city of Berlin he pointed out the walking man. If you notice on each stop light it is not just a light, it is a person. For green you would cross the street and for red you would stop. This was just a little something to bring some joy to people's lives on the east side of Berlin because during the war when things were divided, everything was supposed to conform to the rules on the west but the east was going to riot because they wanted to keep their walking man. I would say it is a symbolic thing even with how small it is.
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I thought that it was interesting that the signs are clearly changed if you walk from each side of the city. The geographic divide of where the walking man is used is quite clear and illustrates the sharp divide between east and west during the Cold War.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a good example of the divide that was between the East and the West. Everything had to change after the Cold War ended. It was interesting to see how something simple like the walking man, brought agreement between the former East and West.
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