Since the beginning of the Chinese occupation of Formosa in October, 1945, the ruling party has consistently maintained a policy of discrimination against the native Formosans while rooting out their sense of identity through the prohibition of public use of their native language and teaching of Formosan history and culture, all under the policy of glorifying China and Chinese culture to the exclusion of Formosa and its culture, which were deemed to be but an insignificant part of the greater Chinese panorama.
