Liu Pin-hsiung, researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, explains: "Culture is living, and cannot be preserved in a state of petrification. It is neither necessary nor possible for the Yami to go backwards. When any culture is under pressure from another culture it faces two possibilities: one, its own decline; two, the forming of a new culture."
中央研究院民族學研究所研究員劉斌雄表示：「文化是活的，不可能保持停留不變，要雅美人走回頭路，不必要也不可能」，他進一步指出，「任何文化受到外來文化的衝擊，有兩種可能，一是沒落，一是發展出新的文化。」