But, the unionists in Taiwan have a misconcept that promoting Taiwanese languages means promoting separatism. If we don't want to see our mother tongue die, we are destined to be disturbed by political noises. This makes the work difficult, if not impossible, to rescue the languages. How to redefine language as a non-political issue is an important question. The most serious problem in this aspect is that this wound particularly affects women.
Women are much more conscious of social status and are willing to chnage it.
It is common that women are sensitive to this issue. But women in our society are especially over-sensitive to this. This also explains why higher-educated women tend stronger to abandom their mother tongues. In my experience, it is very difficult to talk with women about this issue. This can be proven by looking at the examples of Breton and Provencal in France.