If these days parents tell their kid--a member of the "new new youth" who only think about "living for myself and making myself happy" --that he or she (the kid) is nothing but a small link in the long chain of the family line, or just one more face amidst the hundreds of their clansmen, the parents are likely to be met with just a blank stare.
如果有父母告訴一個一心要「活出自己，活得痛快」的新新人類，說他不過是家族累世綿延的一個小環節、是數百口親族中的一份子等等，恐怕會挨上一頓白眼。