European countries copied the products and practices of England, the leading industrial power of the day. Immigrants carried this penchant for copying goods from the old country to their new homes in America.
工業革命的起源地﹘﹘英國，首先成為歐洲各國「模仿」的目標；接著是美國「仿」歐洲各國；近代最有名的則是日本「仿」歐美。