Sun, whose warning that the Taiwan's Aborigines were facing extinction resonated strongly, says that the nature of the threat they face has changed. In the past, the danger was from external pressures. Now it is internal, originating in the fantasy that the good life is going to come to everyone immediately. "This makes for a much more frightening kind of decline," says Sun.
但是，對於這樣樂觀的願景，過去提出「黃昏族群」警語、獲得原住民廣大迴響的孫大川指出，現在原住民面對的是一種「新的黃昏」──過去的黃昏來自外在壓力，而今天的黃昏，則來自族群內部一廂情願、以為馬上有好日子可過的期盼，「這種黃昏才更加可怕。」