民族國家可謂是近代世界人群社會最主要的組成形式，強調一個國家是由單一的民族所建構。然民族整合與民族形成往往無法進程一致。中華民國政府在台灣地區所呈現的民族主義（思想），或許應更為精確地說是原住民族群民族主義（思想），是最能呈現文化民族主義（思想）在人類生活互動與歷史記憶中所展現出的變遷過程，而形成一個「想像的共同體」（imagined community）或「想像的認同體」（imagined identity），進而逐漸朝向國家民族主義方向。相較地，中共對於其少數民族的對待，即使不斷增加優渥處遇，以及自治區的設置，但由於地理空間的遼闊，以及交通設施的不便，仍未能增加人民之間的生活互動，其原有的族群民族主義是無法形成「想像的共同體」或「想像的認同體」，以及發展出國家民族主義的可能性。

Nation-state is the major form of human society in the modern age, it emphasizes that the state is formatted by a nation. However, national integration and national formation do not come to in the same process. The nationalism, precisely defined, ethnic（aboriginal）nationalism, represented in Republic of China has provided the best example for the evolution of cultural nationalism or ethnic nationalism in human interaction and historical memory, and it has formed an imagined community or identity. Contrarily, though the minor nations have been privileged and have their own autonomy on Mainland China, the huge geographical space and inconvenient transportation hinder its national integration and formation.