Campville is a tiny sugar plantation village on one of the outside islands. Its inhabitants consist of ten Japanese families and one Portuguese family. The parents, being in most cases immigrants from Japan, speak the Japanese language and try to cling to their old customs of Japan. But no matter how much the parents want to keep their old customs, the village customs are gradually changing. Each year the people are becoming more and more Americanized. To illustrate the gradual change that is taking place in this village, the author has chosen the subject, "Changing Marriage Customs of My Neighborhood." The author cites examples of marriages in his subject, not involving racial problems. However, there was one interracial marriage, which became the concern of the neighborhood. This was a marriage between the son of the neighbor and a haole girl that took place about a year ago in a midwestern city. In this tiny plantation village, the people, old and young, could not help but assimilate American culture. As the old Japanese immigrants have discovered, it is difficult for an immigrant to cling to his country's customs without modification.