In their thinking about marriage and the family, native-born Chinese Americans are almost the same as other Americans. "My family has been here for five generations. The first four were all big families living together, but my three sons have all moved out and live on their own," the general manager of a bank in Chinatown in Los Angeles says ruefully.
在對家庭、婚姻的觀念上，在美國出生的華裔幾乎已與一般美國人無異，洛杉磯中國城內一家銀行的總經理遺憾地說：「我家在這裡已經五代了，前四代都是大家庭住在一起，可是我的三個兒子都要搬出去自己住。」