Although the "International Year of Native Peoples" is already over, as we welcome the first "native" county chief, perhaps a new challenge for all members of human society in the age of pluralism is for us to consider how we should treat ethnic minorities within our existing political systems, to avoid their rights and interests being sacrificed in the name of the democratic principle of majority decision.
「國際原住民年」雖已落幕，在成就了首位「原住民」縣長的同時，就現行的政治體制下，思考如何對待少數族群，避免在多數決的民主精神下，犧牲少數族群的權益，或許正是全世界所有社會成員面對新文明的新挑戰。