Some people refused to speak anything but Taiwanese in public. In the past, at meetings of the Democratic Progressive Party, some party members were shouted down for using Mandarin Chinese. To display their feelings about group, regime, or national identity, many people made a special point of using one particular language.
有人在公開場合絕不說台語以外的語言，過去在民進黨公開的會議裡，也有黨員因使用國語而被噓下台，與族群，甚至政權、國家認同問題等掛勾，許多人刻意表現它的語言主張。