Despite the fact that those with foreign status can have the same preferences in entering universities as are enjoyed by the children of diplomats, in order to realize the ideal of Chinese studying Chinese texts, the rate at which second- and third-generation overseas Chinese returned to Taiwan to attend university was as high as 80 percent right up through the 1980's.
儘管以外國人身分在當地進大學可以享有和外交官子女一般的優惠，但為了中國人念中國書的理想，二、三代華僑回台灣念大學的比例，一直到八○年代還高達百分之八十。