Thank you for advocating an inclusive view of each other. "Intersectionality" is an inadequate term to express the reality of this diversity. The American, Chinese, Jewish and Female "intersectionality" sounds homogeneous compared to my family.

My first wife was from Guatemala. She thought she was mostly Spanish Christian on one side, and Indigenous Mayan on the other. It turns out her father's side were Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition, and her mother's side was from the Philippines. So what would you call our sons?

My wife now you would call "Black." But she also has Native American and Chinese ancestry. As an Ashkenazi Jew, part of my heritage goes back to the Khazars, a tribe of Huns who converted en masse to Judaism. So our family joke is that some of her ancestors built the Great Wall of China to keep out some of mine - but it didn't work. So what would you call our son?

In reality, our family is no more mixed than anyone else. We've just been able to research the diverse origins of our ancestors. We all have more in common than the artificial distinctions we try to draw between us.

"Intersectionality" is a word meaning the crossing of one-dimensional lines. But people and issues are not one-dimensional, and the world is more than the two-dimensional result of that crossing.

We are not lines on a paper, but more like drops in the ocean. We flow and mix together; we all derive from the same source; and we all return to the same ocean. The divisions between us are the illusions.