This group feels a loss of status, for during the many decades of KMT rule they have always thought of themselves as a privileged "majority" in Taiwan even though in fact they are a minority.
多年來在國民黨的長期執政下，外省族群一直有一種「異鄉的虛構想像」，認為自己是「虛構的多數」，而有著一種莫名的優越感。