"But," he says, "I've spoken Taiwanese since I was a kid, and I didn't grow up in an immigrant village." When he moved up to Taipei to attend school, the earthy Kuan was seen as "that guy from the countryside" by his classmates from Taipei.
剛到台北唸書時，草根性強的他被台北同學歸類成「鄉下來的那一掛」，也屬於「台客」、「下港人」一族。