Taiwan overseas students who stay on to work in Silicon Valley after getting their postgraduate degrees usually do not have their relatives around. Nor do they socialize with their American colleagues after work. It's a lonely life, and much more intensely so when one feels frustrated or disappointed.
取得碩士學位、畢業後留下打拚的台灣留學生，父母親人多半不在身邊，下班後也不會和白人同事混在一起，寂寞難挨、心生挫折時，這種需要也就更為強烈。