Tacit spirit of harmonious coexistence Wang Hsing-ching, senior staff writer at Taiwan's news weekly The Journalist, notes that in the process of seeking recognition and a political voice in the wider community, the world's ethnic minorities have often encountered far more in the way of conflict and tragedy than have Taiwan's aboriginal communities.
不明言的共和精神「新新聞週刊」總主筆王杏慶指出，放眼世界各地的少數族群，在跨越族群認同、爭取政治上的發言權時，其過程之衝突與慘烈，遠超過台灣的山地族群。