Yijang Baluar, an indigenous rights activist who once headed the Alliance of Taiwan's Aborigines, divulged in an interview with the press that in high school and his freshman year of college he was simply unwilling to admit he was an aborigine and, of course, correspondingly unwilling to use his original name, because he considered himself a second-class person.
曾任原權會會長的原住民運動者夷將．拔路兒曾在一次媒體訪問中吐露，他在高中以及大一時根本不願承認自己是原住民，當然相對也不會要求恢復自己的名字，總認為自己是次等民族。