Apparently, Scotch-Chinese intermarrying has been going on for years in Vancouver, resulting in multiethnic children who want to honor both cultures. Traditional Scottish bagpiping will accompany Chinese dragon dances and local restaurants are creating Scottish and Chinese fusion cuisine. I’m sure if anyone can make haggis—sheep organs boiled inside a stomach—palatable, it is the Chinese.

Lunar new year purists might find this suspect, but I think Vancouver is being progressive. If a densely populated North American city can acknowledge its multiculturalism through this type of inclusion, then perhaps there’s hope for the U.S.

Henry Yu, a professor of history at the University of British Columbia, says that Vancouver has "one of the highest intermarriage rates in North America ... glued on to a long history of conflict." He also notes that while they are "not unique in dealing with racism. But what's unique is how much farther we've gone."

Definitely farther than the U.S., I’d say. Maybe we should be looking north for racial harmony tips?