We were often at odds, and even made war upon each other. After the Japanese colonized Taiwan, the island's aboriginal inhabitants became the focus of academic research for the first time. Japanese anthropologists classified us into a number of different ethnic groups on the basis of language, customs, religion, social structure, physical characteristics, and other such criteria.
日本人統治台灣以後，原住民第一次被當作一個知識的對象，按照日本人類學的識別標準，如語言、風俗、宗教、社會結構，或是體質等將原住民分類，形成原住民近百年來族群認同的基礎。