In a situation where it was impossible to have discussion with public testimony and discontent remained bottled up with no place to go, the 228 Incident gradually became an unseen curent renting Taiwan society apart. The "Mainlanders" / "alien regime" were starkly contrasted with "native Taiwanese."
在無從公開查證討論、怨憤也無處抒解的情形下，「228」逐漸變成暗中割裂台灣社會的伏流，「外省人」／「外來政權」，與「台灣本土」截然對立，省籍情結的魔咒迄今難解。