"Sometimes, seeing my classmates from Hualien Normal settling into positions in the city, I could only cry on the inside." Tiway Sayion speaks frankly about the still widespread discrimination against aborigines, and says that his lack of an "old boy" network, inability to engage in backroom intrigues and relative disinterest in aiding election campaigns meant that he could only watch as jobs went to less qualified and less experienced persons.
「眼看著當年花蓮師範的同學都在市中心站穩一席之地，有的時候真是只能眼淚往肚裡流」，李來旺不諱言，歧視原住民的心態仍然普遍，而他不懂暗盤、沒有人脈、又不太熱中輔選等政治活動，只能眼睜睜看著別人後來居上。