No wonder that Sun Ta-chuan, a doctorate-holding member of the Puyuma tribe who teaches in the Philosophy Department of Soochow University, describes the tribes as "peoples in their twilight."
也難怪任教於東吳大學哲學系的卑南族人孫大川博士，會常用「黃昏的民族」來形容卑南族及其他各族群的處境。