There are many such examples, to the point that scholars hold that the book is, "under the false pretenses of telling people about Taiwan, actually paving the way for independence." They charge that it "exalts the Japanese, exaggerates the accomplishments of Lee Teng-hui, and shows a bias against Hakkas and the mainlanders who came over with the KMT in 1949."
類似的例子一再被舉出，有學者因此認為《認識台灣》其實是「假認識台灣之名，行為台獨鋪路之實」，甚至有「推崇日本人，吹捧李登輝，歧視客家、外省人」的嫌疑。