With Pooi To Middle School leaning more to the Chinese sources, as a student Lam became more familiar with the Chinese perspective on history. "I even, completely unawares, took to viewing Macao from the Chinese perspective, as an outlying region, forgetting I was Macanese born and raised," he admits.
高中時期就讀「親中」的培道中學，林發欽熟習的是中國式史觀，「也不自覺地習慣用中國『中央看邊陲』的角度來看澳門，渾然忘了自己是在澳門土生土長的，」他承認。