After all, everybody came from similar backgrounds, all had gone to the US to study, and all could be proud of what they had built up with their own hands. And all also had the sense of loss felt by so many intellectuals in this generation of immigrants.
家長們幾乎「一點就通」，本來大家就多來自相同的背景，都是留美學生，有著白手起家的驕傲，也有這一代移民常有的知識分子「流亡者」的失落感。