Gunter Klötzer has done a marvelous job in capturing Germans who permanently moved their life to the United States. It's amazing to see the diversity among the pictures, from Deli owners to sailboat enthusiasts and Midtown business men. Interestingly enough, Monika Heigh or Tareq Bey doesn't sound all too German as one may think; it might show how the world's busiest travelers and exporters have integrated themselves into the new global environment. Not to mention that every fourth American has German heritage.

Yet for some reason, it's hard to deny one's cultural roots, for some it's easier to forget and others like to share common cultural codes and connect with similar experiences. Rest aside the different opinions over the Iraq War, but you have to give props to Joschka Fischer's "I am not convinced speech" at the UN security meeting in Munich prior to the war, with a sweaty Rumsfeld in row one, I feel that Germans living in the US tend to be more conservative. And when it comes to sharing these codes online, expats living in Germany are very well connected, especially the bloggers, even better than German bloggers.

Thanks to the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), for making Klötzer's amazing photography possible. New exhibitions of his work is planned for 2008.