The writer Lung Ying-tai says that the reason she teaches Chinese to her sons who live in Germany is not to get them to identify with Chinese culture but rather to open a cultural window for them. Whether other Chinese parents 'intentions are different or not, the fact that they teach Chinese to their kids is all the same.
雖然作家龍應台否認，她教生長在德國的兒子說中文有任何「文化認同」的意圖，而只是「為他加開一扇文化的窗子」，華人父母們企圖或許不一，教中文的事實卻無不同。