I think we may have to agree to disagree on this one for the most part <| sep |> Okay , how about some Indian ? Too spicy . Hey , there ' s some Chinese , too . Do I need to use chopsticks ? <| sep |> Your comment became a lot more funny after I hovered over your flair . That must be an awkward situation . <| sep |> I don ' t want to ignore historic factors , but the demographics are quite different . The east is older , poorer and more r u r a l c h a r t c o m p a r i n geasternandwesterngermany and there is a massive brain drain to the West and Berlin . Meanwhile , almost no foreigners live in the Eastberlinwallfell 25 y e a r s a g obutgermanyisstilldivided . In the West , 9 . 9 % are foreigners , in the East only 2 . 5 %. And xenophobia is usually higher when foreign population is lower . Why so few foreigners ? The East had seen immigration from fellow socialist nations . But when the Western Politicians came to power , they deported them en m a s s e e a s y targetfearousterbygermany . html 1992 article