[MarMema]

I just returned home from an Orthodox country of almost zero converts, or something like 98% cradle. As I recall they demonstrated enmasse in the streets against some kind of agreement with the vatican, just a few years ago.

So I wouldn't consider intolerance or resistance to unity to be a trait of converts.

[Agrarian]

Don't forget those hotbeds of converts (not!) -- Mt. Athos and most other Greek monasteries -- who are overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of union with Rome as things currently stand.

[kosta50]

I am wholly opposed to distinguishing "cradle" Orthodox and "converts". There are Orthodox and heterodox, period. Those who are Orthodox in their hearts are Orthodox; the timing of their conversion is irrelevant. Those who are Orthodox only on paper are not Orthodox because their life is not. Our all-merciful God gives us until the last breath to convert; no one is keeping a score when that happens.