Lin Heng-tao says this illogical answer showed that the teacher was obviously trying to find fault, and from this we can see that the colonized people had no status, for even the home tutor which the Lin family had employed had the right to question his employers 'child's national consciousness simply because he was Japanese.
林衡道說，這種沒有邏輯的答案，顯然是老師故意找碴，由此可見殖民地的人民沒有地位，即使是林家雇來的家庭教師，只因為他是日本人，就有權力質問主人家小孩的國家意識。