Jennifer Marty

With Mengyue, we talk about multiculturalism and ethnic diversity.

She comes from Shanghai so, when she is with her family, they speak Chinese. Her parents don’t speak English. There are two types of Chinese languages: Mandarin and Cantonese. Mandarin is more popular in China whereas Cantonese is more spoken in the United States.

In Irvine campus, there are around 600 Chinese people but many Mexicans, Koreans, Japanese, Indians and several Europeans students live there too. She really likes North American that’s why it could be possible that she becomes the first generation of American if she stays in USA and have a family there. 

Mengyue and I like travelling and we went in many countries. I moved a lot because ma father was a soldier. She went in England, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Canada and Indonesia.  When she travels with her friends or family she takes a lot of photos to have a lot of memories. Personally, I like travelling to discover different cultures, the way of life of people in other countries and visit the monuments… As Mengyue, I take a lot of photos too.

 

My house in French Guyana

 

 

A castle I visited in Wien

France is a multicultural society because residents have different origins. There are French people but also Arabs from North Africa, black people from the rest of the Africa and Chinese people. That’s why in big French cities there are different districts where groups of people with the same origin live together. For example most of Chinese people in Paris live in the 13^th district (I lived there until I was 4). Mengyue said that it is almost the same thing in Los Angeles (and USA) and it is named melting pot (migrants who are now the second generation of American: people who come from another country but whose their children were born in USA).  In Los Angeles, Chinese district is poor, dirty and noisy but there are a lot of good Chinese restaurants. Furthermore, “ABC” is the nickname for American Born Chinese (I found that funny). I would really like to go to the USA one day!