At Taiwan's May Fourth symposium, scholars also observed that after 50 years of separation--or for the older generation who lived under Japanese colonial rule, a century--the societies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have diverged greatly.
五四研討會上，學界也指出，兩岸經過五十年的分隔、對日本殖民下的上一代人更是百年分隔，彼此的社會與文化已有很大差距。