Sun Ta-chuan points out that the aborigines 'feelings towards their Japanese rulers were certainly mixed--a "love-hate complex." Under Japan's 50-year policy for "governing the barbarians," aborigines were looked down on and placed at the bottom of the social heap. Their very identity "was a form of indignity."
孫大川指出，原住民對日本統治者的情感，的確混雜著「愛恨情結」，在日本長達五十年的理蕃政策底下，原住民一直是被看不起的，落在社會的底層，是種「屈辱似的認同」。