Tears But on the subject of raising the status of Amis culture, Lukar is disheartened, for in Taiwan today people only speak Chinese. Lukar cannot read or write, and having grown up under Japanese rule, he can only speak Japanese and Amis. He doesn't know what to do.
但是對於提昇阿美族文化，阿公卻有失落感，因為現在的社會只說國語，阿公不識字，只會說日語和阿美族語，不知道該怎麼辦。