Most indigenous communities in Taiwan have experienced and continue to experience identity crisis. In the process, some develop a ‘meeting place’ identity in which postcolonial nation-state and economic policies have denied justice for many indigenous communities, leading them to armed resistance. Ethical problems such as corruption, abuse of power, and prostitution, communal problems such as ethnic conflicts, racial tensions and breakdown of family structures and continued marginalization of indigenous people continue to rise in such a ‘meeting place’ identity.
—Rev. Dr. Namoh Ising,Yu-Shan Theological College and Seminary, Hualien, Taiwan
