For example, in introducing types of houses, one text shows only the in-ground homes of the Orchid Island Yami aborigines, the stone houses of Penghu, and the stone slab structures of the Paiwan aborigines. It does not mention traditional Chinese family compound-style homes. In another case, one editorial committee member insisted that the story to illustrate "self-sacrifice" had to come from Taiwanese legend.
例如介紹各式各樣的房屋，有蘭嶼的地下屋，澎湖的咕咾石屋跟泰雅、排灣的石板屋，卻沒有漢人的四合院；也有編輯委員為了「本土優先」，要求「捨己救人」的故事一定要從台灣民間傳奇取材。