The controversy about the Taiwanization of culture was later carried into the political debate on the question of unification versus independence. Still later it was a primary moving force behind the push for localized education and mother-tongue instruction.
台灣文化的本土化思潮，後來被捲入政治運動的統、獨糾結，之後又成為教改推行鄉土教學、母語教學的基本動力。