Every few years, faced with a trough, they will retreat to developing countries as economic exiles, simultaneously diffusing knowledge globally, extending their native platform ecosystems, and recouping their own losses.
Ms Le's boss at Indochina Capital, Tung Kim Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American, reckons there is a bigger wave to come as older exiles return to spend their final years back in their homeland.
The actor has been at the center of a heated debate over tax exiles as France's Socialist government proposes a hefty tax on the rich, but he has denied that he accepted the passport to escape the tax man.
Quickly though, it became quite clear that Depardieu was not treated in the same way as other famous French tax exiles.
Some of the older exiles, such as Carlos Trueba, a Cuban-born retiree playing dominoes in an outdoor park in Miami's Little Havana, object to the lack of ideological spine among the new arrivals.
Leeds hit back from the restart as their impressive pack rolled the Exiles into their own 22 and Thomas glided in from 10 metres out to score under the posts and convert his try.
And it also points to the woeful lack of understanding on the part of most Americans -- those who would dismiss Guillen's words and Cuban exiles' reaction to them as irrelevant -- about the Cuban-American experience, versus the understanding that Americans have of the Jewish experience.
By mid-December the debate pitted Catholic against Catholic, husbands against wives and devout exiles against the same archdiocese that had welcomed them as refugees.
As the home side threw caution to the wind, the Exiles increased their misery when Armitage plucked off Andy Williams' pass for a simple interception try, ensuring their biggest ever Heineken Cup win and their first on the road in the tournament.
Similarly, countries such as Sudan, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, once havens for Islamist exiles, have greatly eased their extradition procedures.
Further south, there are more cultural nuclei in Little Havana, where nostalgia-chic clubs and galleries such as Hoy Como Ayer and Cuba Ocho vibrate with rhythms from new and old exiles.
Lamb told BBC Berkshire the chance of a fresh start as well as working with the "best coaching team out there" were key to his decision to join the Exiles.
The teams went into the game level on 27 points, with only points difference keeping the Exiles in top spot in the table, and London Irish coach Toby Booth described the game as an "acid test" for his team.
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