Due to their surroundings and competition with other ethnic groups, second-generation overseas Chinese may often be rather hazy about their own "cultural roots," but it would be wrong to infer from this that they wish only to assimilate and that they attach no importance to those roots.
二代華僑在海外，因環境設備及與別族裔間競爭，多少對自己的「根源文化」比較模糊，但不能因此推論，二代華僑只求被同化，而不重視自己的「根源文化」。