When I was just a kid with a runny nose and stinky torn blue jeans, the tradition in our family was to marry Chinese, to keep the bloodline pure.

My Uncle James was the first to break with tradition when he married a French Cajun woman from New Orleans. Then I broke with tradition by marrying an Irish/German/Scottish girl from Beaverton, Ore. My son married a Mexican girl.

Today our extended family is Mexican, German, Scottish, Irish, Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese and more — in short, international. It is love and marriage simmered through the generations that is breaking down borders and boundaries.

Technology and travel, not force by government policy, are enabling the spread of love worldwide. Let it become epidemic. It is love and marriage that will light up our global Christmas tree with a multitude of colors. Let it shine. Let if flow. Just let it happen. It will light up the world.

Nelson S.W. Chang

Kaneohe

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