"Thanks to this, both the governments and the peoples were used to fudging Macanese history, giving it little more than a cursory glance," explains Ng. "But more crucially, with the push for 'localization' having come so relatively late, most of the territory's historical information came from outside, and few Macanese really paid it any attention or offered their own takes on it."
「在這個背景下，無論是中葡政府還是華洋居民，都習慣將澳門歷史模糊化，輕描淡寫帶過去，」吳志良說，「但最關鍵原因，還是在於本土學術起步晚，歷史論述基本上由外部主導，澳門人既少人關注，也無人提出自己的詮釋。」