Benjamin Ho adds that although Kiribati has been listed by the United Nations as one of the four poorest economic entities in the South Pacific (the other three are the Samoan archipelago, the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu), because of the value system of communal sharing and the very tight family culture, the local society is nonetheless upbeat and stable.
何登煌也指出，吉里巴斯雖然被聯合國列入南太平洋最貧窮的 4 個經濟體之一（其餘 3 國為薩摩亞群島、索羅門群島及吐瓦魯），然而，由於「有福同享」的價值觀，以及緊密聯繫的家族文化，當地社會顯得和樂安定，最令他讚嘆的則是「不分老少，臉上常常掛著純真開朗的笑容。」