6 visitors from Germany and Tajikistan will be coming to make professional connections in San Diego to explore population changes in the United States by investigating such demographic components as gender, age, ethnicity, mobility, language knowledge, employment status, and location. They will compare and contrast demographic trends in the United States and Germany from a government, community, private sector, think tank, NGO, and academic perspectives. They will be providing an overview of how various communities in the United States support integration and diversity, along with how the United States fosters notions of citizenship and nationhood.