Recently Chen has said publicly and with great regret that leaving the country at such a young age was not necessarily good for him. Though he is very familiar with American civilization, his roots in Chinese culture are weak.
在最近一次公開談話中，陳履安語帶感慨地說，自己年少出國，未必是好事﹘﹘美式文明他是很熟悉了，反倒中國文化的根柢薄弱。