For many Chinese of an earlier generation who went off alone and empty-handed to build a new life in a foreign land, the old hometown is a place they think of returning to constantly. But for a certain group of newer emigrants, who look every bit as Chinese as their forebears, "the old hometown is just a place where their ancestors once happened to live."
故鄉，對許多赤手空拳、隻身前往異國奮鬥的老一代華人，常是日思夜念、落葉歸根的棲所；但對有些同是黑髮黃膚的新一代移民，「故鄉，只是上一代的落腳之處」。