Says Makoto Liang, "For the past several centuries, the island of Taiwan has been ruled by a succession of outside powers. The Taiwanese people are quick to assimilate cultural influences from abroad, but we have long ignored our own culture." In his opinion, the infatuation of Taiwanese youth with Japanese pop culture may be due primarily to the fact that we have not fully developed our own culture.
「隨著統治政權更迭，台灣人習於接受外來文化，自己的文化反而長期被忽略了」，梁秩誠認為，台灣青少年著迷於日本流行文化，主要原因或許是台灣沒有建立自己的文化。