With this kind of mentality, and faced with the prospect of going to war and maybe sacrificing one's life, the reaction of the aborigines was, as described by Tai Kuo-hui, a determination to join up as soon as possible, so as to "erase the stigma."
這樣的心理在碰到像參戰這樣可能犧牲性命的抉擇時，原住民一方面反應的是戴國輝所形容的要更努力爭先，以「洗卻汙名」的心情。