Originally there was no conflict between people from different provinces, but suppression of the island’s culture caused a big gap between them.

  The Taiwanese dialect was originated from the southern Fukien dialect, it is a profound language and has a history longer than Mandarin. To forfeit it, see it as a lower-class dialect, is not respecting it as the island’s mainstream language. The indigenous people’s mother tongue was neglected even more. If our government officials paid more respect to the island’s culture in the past, there would not be strikes, protests by members of the Democratic Progressive Party and/or the indigenous people today. Now it is out of the question to counterattack mainland China, and we have our own President of the Republic of China. For the future of all Chinese, we must keep on striving.