从2001年下半年开始,人们陆续从网站上、境外华文报纸上、回国探亲留学生口中得知,在一些华人留学集中的国家,当地人厌恶地称从国内去的小留学生(年龄主要在6岁到16岁)为“垃圾”。这种叫法逐渐被媒体引用,并广为传播。“留学垃圾”多系家长“制造”有人士为此进行初步分析,得出“垃圾”形成的原因主要在国内的家长身上:望子成龙心切,父母拼命挣钱供子女出国,以 Beginning in the second half of 2001, people gradually learned from the website, overseas Chinese newspapers and returned overseas students that in some countries where Chinese students study abroad, the locals said in a disgust manner that small foreign students (mainly aged 6 To 16 years old) as “rubbish”. This name is gradually cited by the media, and widely disseminated. Many of the “study rubbish” parents of “made” people have done a preliminary analysis for this purpose, and concluded that “junk” is mainly caused by parents in China who are eager for money and parents desperate to earn money for their children to go abroad