1.   Elvis, in short, manages to unite his countrymen, to be one of the binding symbols that an immigrant society depends upon.

2.   Hong Kong has been an immigrant society since the British seized the then-remote outpost from China.

3.   Of course, what constitutes American music could depend on what our largely immigrant society considers permanence to be.

4.   But this ethos could not withstand forever the changing demographics of an immigrant society.

5.   Hong Kong, an immigrant society, has seen waves of human smuggling in which people came seeking political stability and economic opportunities.