I'll reply to you and Paul tomorrow if my Net connection works for long enough -- it's going through one of its "work twice as fast as it's supposed to and collapse every five minutes" phases. To answer your questions I'd have to address the differing approaches to "multiculturalism" and "integration/assimilation" in the US and elsewhere, and that can't be done fast... Judy Evans, Cardiff ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html