On the surface, the rapid modernization of society as a whole has greatly improved the standard of living of aborigines. But when one looks closely, one notes that there is an even greater disparity between the standard of living of the aborigines and the Chinese than there used to be.
表面上看來，拜整體社會迅速現代化之賜，原住民生活品質比以前提高很多，然而仔細探究，其實原住民和漢人的差距反倒比以前更加遙遠了。