<I expect it will take a full generation before the new <immigrants to the west catch up, and for those who stay in the east, it may <well take longer.Sorry to continue an off-topic theme, but I enjoy hearing <from non-americans, and I thought the above needed saying. They are no immigrants - they are germans!!! Also ur friends sight is pretty old fashioned. I don't think the more "intelligent" part of germans has anything against the former DDR. Just my 2 cents...(still living in Germany and happy the wall went down) Boris