Good point. The Aussiedler represent some big numbers, are foreign born, but can loosely be considered German. I've known a lot and while not entirely represen

Good point. The Aussiedler represent some big numbers, are foreign born, but can loosely be considered German. I've known a lot and while not entirely representative, the criteria were loose: only adoptive father of German ancestry, last person really German and to speak German was mummy's oma, etc. Of course when you're being beat up by the locals in some ex soviet republic because you're not really one of them either, well, you do what you have to do. What surprises me are the numbers of Spanish, Italians, Poles, Hungarians. Anecdotally I would have expected bigger numbers. Germany has emptied such countries of their qualified workers in recent years.