Lin Ku-fang points out: "When a person is divided into two unrelated parts, as well as increasing the psychological burden this also serves as an obstacle to identity." People in Taiwan have chosen to search for identity in narrowly defined localism and abstract internationalism, and not altogether surprisingly they come away empty handed.
「把人分成無關的兩塊，加重負擔之外，也有認同障礙，」林谷芳指出，台灣人在狹義的本土與抽象的國際之間尋求認同，但找不到落點。