Hung Yi-chang, an indigenous person of the Ami tribe and currently an associate professor specializing in aboriginal health research at Tzu Chi Buddhist General Hospital, notes that promoting products related to aboriginal culture is indeed helpful to improving the lives of aboriginal people. However, when it comes to the market economy, aborigines are still unable to compete with the Han Chinese, and at best they can only occupy the margins.
阿美族的慈濟醫學院原住民健康研究所副教授鴻義章指出，推廣原住民的文化產業對於改善原住民的生活的確有幫助，但是論起市場經濟，原住民還是無法和漢人競爭，頂多只是沾到邊而已。