New emigrants from old hometowns Wu Yongzhi, whose wife is in America, is himself planning to go to that country soon. He points out that Chinese laborers have been going abroad for a long time. The pattern often followed that relatives, friends and neighbors would embark one after another, the first one pulling the others behind him. Today the fashion of new emigration is in the same mode.
太太在美國，不久也將赴美的伍永志指出，早年華工出洋，往往就是親友鄰居，一個拉一個，今天「新移民」出國也如出一轍。