In Europe and North America, notions of taste are something that accumulated among the nobility and the merchant class over hundreds of years. As Taiwan began to develop, it was natural that it looked to the West for lifestyle needs and directions.
歐美的生活品味主張，是幾百年來貴族、富商累積出來的社會階級象徵，在台灣經濟崛起後，對於生活品質的需求與方向，自然也向西方看齊。