Lin Ku-fang argues that this orientation shows that the impact of the Japanese occupation era is still with us. In that era, Western classical music was all the rage among society's upper strata, a trend which has lasted to the present day.
林谷芳認為，這應該與日據時期的歐化風尚有關，當年西洋音樂成為上流階層的所愛，此風一直延續至今。