The imbalance between men and women meant that there was no way to have full intermarriage among the first-generation mainlanders, whose social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds were relatively close (despite the fact that they saw each other as "provincial outsiders"!). Therefore many people married with natives of Taiwan.
男女性比例不均，造成社會、文化、語言背景較相近的第一代來台「外省人」無法充分通婚（何況他們彼此也互為「外省人」），所以有許多人轉而與和本省人通婚。