"Once a movement loses its focus, it takes on new shapes," says Hsieh. "The ethnic political movement is only one aspect of the indigenous peoples 'movement." From the mid-1990s, many of Taiwan's social movements began to lose some of their vigor. But, while the labor movement and the women's movement quieted, the indigenous peoples' movement soldiered on.
「族群政治運動，只是原住民族運動的一環；在沒有著力點之後，就會轉型產生不同樣貌，」謝世忠指出，1990 年中期之後，台灣的社會運動浪潮息掩，工運、婦運等領域陸續沈寂。