What is the best path to steer between encouraging local culture and maintaining access to larger language communities? I speak therefore I am For some people, the prerequisite to pluralization is equality of status. They would like Taiwanese to have equal status with Mandarin, and there are even those who advocate priority for Taiwanese. Other people are striving hard to shatter the image of Taiwanese as a low-class, crude language.
有人以對等為多元的前提，為讓台語取得與國語的同等地位，甚至主張「台語優越論」，有人致力破除其低階、粗俗的印象。