Because of the flourishing of the movement to find "roots" among American minorities, many of Chinese descent, because of identification with their own group, have gone a step further in hopes they can pay back the community.
由於七○年代美國社會少數民族尋根運動的興起，不少華人後代也由於認識族裔，而加深了對其生長地方的認同，進而希望能夠回饋。