At the time, Malaysia's Chinese community was universally biased against students returning from Taiwan. Although studies in Taiwan were inexpensive, people doubted that degrees from schools on this tiny, impoverished, academically insignificant island would be worth the paper they were printed on.
當時大馬華僑社會對留台普遍存有偏見，認為台灣為彈丸小島、貧窮之地，學術水準不高，留台雖然便宜，但都是沒有「料」的。