Interestingly, while quite a few older Taiwanese interviewees opined with implied regret that "young people today aren't the slightest bit interested in finding out about those events," some younger respondents took a diametrically opposed view: "We of the younger generation have read our history books, we know what happened. The old generation lived under colonial rule, and the Japanese deceived them about many things.
有趣的是，不少年紀較長的本省籍受訪者認為「現在少年仔根本不想去瞭解這些事情了」，言下不勝感慨；也有一些年輕子弟持著完全相反的意見：「我們年輕一代有讀過歷史課本，知道事情的經過，老一代受殖民統治的，很多觀念都被日本人誤導了… …。」