Hsu Cheng-kuang, director of the Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica, thinks, "Faced with the limitations of the historical paradigm, for Hakka, the disguising of their ethnic background was something of a collective decision and a necessity for individual survival."
中研院民族所所長徐正光認為，這是「客家人在歷史結構條件的制約下，為了族群延續和個體生存，所做的一種集體的抉擇和自處之道。」