Liu Chen-sheng, chairman of National Taiwan University Alumni in Brazil and a design engineer at the world's largest hydroelectric power station--Itaipu--typifies another sort of immigrant. His ultimate goal was the United States: "People told me Brazil was so near America you could drive there (in fact, Sao Paulo is an 11-hour flight from Los Angeles), so like an idiot I came."
現任巴西台大校友會會長，並且為世界第一大水力發電廠﹘﹘伊泰普大壩﹘﹘負責機械設計的劉振聲，則是另一種移民典型﹘﹘他的目標是美國：「別人告訴我從巴西到美國很近，開車就可以到（事實上，洛杉磯到聖保羅的飛機航程需十一小時），就傻傻地來了。」