Kao Tzu-yang is a small dynamo of a man whose feelings are stirred when he recalls those early years. "Actually," he says, "when I was a kid, we didn't have any idea about 'racial discrimination.' But some Han classmates regularly called us Aborigines 'savages' or 'barbarians.'
個子短小精悍的高子洋回想那段歲月，語氣中無限感慨：「其實小時候我們並沒有所謂『種族歧視』的觀念，但有些平地人同學經常叫我們『生番』、『番仔』，從父母口中才知道這是一種輕蔑的稱呼。