Looked at in this light, says Pang Ka Fat, "The discrimination in Hong Kong against immigrants of the same ethnic and linguistic heritage isn't really a matter of ethnic discrimination so much as values-based and class discrimination. This is something that both sides are going to have to work together to overcome."
從這方面觀察，彭家發認為，「港人對同文同種新移民的隔閡，其實不是一種族群差異，而是一種意識型態的歧視和經濟階級的歧視。這種歧見是可以靠著雙方的努力來破解的。」