The recently published Don't Call Me a Foreign Bride records the thoughts and feelings of numerous Southeast Asian women: "Whenever there's a problem with my child, my parents-in-law accuse me of not teaching him how to behave properly. But whenever he does something right, they say he got it from his father." No matter how hard they try, foreign wives bear a mark of opprobrium that invites belittlement.
最近出版的《不要叫我外籍新娘》一書中，紀錄了許多東南亞媳婦的心聲：「如果孩子有什麼問題，公婆總是怪我們沒教好；有好的表現，就說那是遺傳自爸爸的優點，」不管她們怎麼努力，都擺脫不掉被貶抑的烙印。