"The Japanese came first," explains Ami aborigine Cheng-Wang Chin-tsung of Taitung, "and the pailang (Han Chinese in the Ami language) second, while the aborigines were third-class citizens."
「日本人是一等，擺浪（阿美族語，意為漢人）是次等，原住民是三等國民」，台東阿美族原住民鄭王金宗形容。