Besides that, the era of "being cut off from the outside world" in Nagura and Takada--when the Taiwanese would either marry a neighbor or go back to Taiwan to seek a spouse--is past. Today it is increasingly common for young people to marry Ishigaki islanders or Japanese. Perhaps after two or three generations the consciousness Taiwanese immigrants have of themselves as a group will fade.
此外，從前在名藏、嵩田「與世隔絕」的時代，台灣人不是鄰里通婚，就是回台灣找對象；而現在時勢遷移，年輕人和石垣島民及日本人通婚已日漸平常，再過兩三代，石垣島上台灣移民的自我認同感或許就將淡去。