Two centuries of adaptation and hard work combined with changing political and economic factors have made "the smooth integration of the Chinese into the multicultural society of Hawaii one of the rare success stories in the history of world immigration," as Professor Clarence E. Glick of the University of Hawaii, noted for his research on the subject, has put it.
經過兩百年來的調適、努力，加上諸多政治、經濟背景的影響，以研究夏威夷華人移民知名的前夏威夷大學教授葛力克指出：「華人順利融入夏威夷的多元化社會中，是世界移民史上少有的成功例子。」