A research paper by Hsiao Hsin-huang, a member of Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, points out that Taiwan's first-generation labor force, which appeared in the 1950's and 1960's, came largely from farming villages. Although they lived and worked in the city, they still identified to a considerable degree with their families in the country.
中央研究院民族所研究員蕭新煌的一份研究報告指出，台灣的第一代勞工出現在民國四十與五十年代，他們來自農村，雖然到都市工作、生活，仍保持傳統農民淳樸無爭的性格。