As Yang Wen-yu explains, great attention used to be paid to their suggestions at home, both by government and the private sector, when Taiwan was more cut off from sources of outside information. But now Taiwan's economy is booming and the American Chinese have come to look a bit jaded by comparison.
美東時報楊文瑜社長分析說，從前國內資訊較閉塞，國內無論民間或政府對旅美學者的建議十分重視，但是現在台灣經濟繁榮進步很快，美國華僑相形之下反變成了「老土」。