Mavea Tung, a graduate of anthropology at National Taiwan University and currently doing research in Tahiti on the Chinese there, analyzes it this way: French assimilation policy has pressured the Chinese toward Western culture at the same time as they have been cut off from their mother culture since the fall of the mainland. That is why the Chinese community on Tahiti is different from Chinese communities in many other areas.
根據大溪地政府的統計，目前僅華人與玻里尼西亞人的混血裔，人數就接近華人的人數。台灣大學人類學系畢業，目前在大溪地作華人研究調查的童元昭分析，一方面是法國的同化政策給當地華人壓力，推他們往西方文化走；另一方面，大陸淪陷後幾乎沒有華人前來大溪地，等於和原來的母文化沒有往來。