But by the second generation, the marriage rates of ben-sheng-jen males and mainlander females and of Taiwanese women with wai-sheng-jen men were 5.3 % and 5.2 % respectively. The rates are thus extremely close, which indicates that there has been less pressure on the second generation to match within the social structure, and there is a somewhat greater possibility of cross-group combinations.
而到了第二代本省（男）、外省（女），與本省（女）、外省（男）的通婚比例，分別是百分之五．三和五．二，比例已經非常接近，顯示第二代受到社會結構性的結合壓力已經減少，比較有族群融合的可能。