Wang Hsing-ching observes that most people are far less ready to accept an aboriginal at the head of an administration than as a councillor, provincial assembly member or other elected representative, "for such representatives only represent their minority community, but the local chief executive represents a whole county or city, including the Han Chinese as well as the 'native people.'"
王杏慶指出，一般人對「原住民」從事行政主官的包容度遠低於民意代表，「畢竟『民意代表』只是代表少數族群，但地方父母官就代表整個縣市，包括漢人和『原住民』」。