In this way, the usually blurred barriers between people of different provincial backgrounds were widened out. Normally the people of Kaohsiung are proud of the pupils of Kaohsiung High without making any provincial distinctions: they see them as the children of Kaohsiung.
如此一來平日看似模糊的省籍界線被挑開，平常高雄人把雄中學生看成是高雄的榮耀，不分省籍，同視為高雄子弟。