Wang Hsing-ching also points out that although Taiwan's aboriginal peoples have long had political representatives, compared with their counterparts in Western countries who won their seats after intense protests, they have remained at the stage of merely ensuring that no ethnic group is left unrepresented.
王杏慶亦指出，台灣山地族群的政治代表，雖然一直存在，但相對於西方激烈抗爭後而爭得的席次，就僅停留在成就「五族共和」代表性的完整。