"It's too severe," says Cindy Ma, currently a student at Cornell University. Parents refuse to let their children out to play, or go out on dates pre-university (especially girls), and such practices as opening and reading the children's mail can be infuriating for youngsters growing up in America. "Hardly any American families are like this, why should we be so different?"
「太嚴格了」，目前就讀康乃爾大學的華裔女孩馬仙蒂說，中國家長們堅持不准孩子外出遊玩，大學以前不准約會（特別對女孩子尤然），乃至於拆閱子女的信件等不尊重孩子的作法，對身處美國大環境的下一代來說，都是很不能忍受的事情，「為什麼我們要與別人不同？