He delivered a segment of his ad dress in Hakka "in order to instill some balance." Huang Chun-ming, a writer from Ilan, adds that today people have too narrow a definition of "Taiwanese." They think it only refers to southern Fujian dialect, and they don't consider that aboriginal and Hakka are also "Taiwanese."
來自宜蘭的作家黃春明也表示，現今大家對「台灣話」的定義太過狹隘，只認定閩南話，而不考慮原住民、客家也是「台灣話」，這是典型的「福佬沙文主義」。