"First, the roots of ethnic conflict in Taiwan can probably be traced back to the February 28 Incident and the way the KMT government handled it," says Fix. "Second, February 28 changed the Taiwanese evaluation of the Japanese colonial regime."
「首先，台灣族群衝突的根源，可以追溯回 228 事件以及國民政府處理該事件的方式，」費德廉說，「其次，228 事件也改變了台灣人對於日本殖民政權的評價。」