Little Tokyo Research Paper

I had gone to Little Tokyo and interviewed around two to three people. I choose this specific place because I wanted to explore the city and I might learn new thing from here. I also wanted to find out what’s the different between Little Tokyo and the place I’m living at. The peoples that I interviewed had different perspective about Little Tokyo. The specific person I’m going to write about is a woman name Cathleen. The gender Cathleen identify herself as a her/ she. As the first time seeing Cathleen, I didn’t know that she was Asian until she told me her race. In my mind, I thought she was Mexican. She is from Los Angeles, California. She currently lives in Monterey Park. Cathleen just move to Monterey Park this past month of October. Cathleen …show more content…
So, she moves to Monterey Park because the benefit she is getting from Monterey Park is that it’s very safe to live. The place is very quiet at night comparing to living in Lincoln Heights. In Cathleen opinion, she thinks Monterey Park population is not diverse because it’s mostly Asian who are living there. The culture and etiquette is very homogeneous. A drawback from Los Angeles was that she had less privileges than other people around the area. Since she moved to Monterey Park, it makes her feel like she is part of the family. On the other hand, she doesn’t have to dealt with any people from the place she lived because those people are very mean and they aren’t nice to her. These are the reason why it makes her feel very frustrated and stress out. The place she lived before, she feels like there are lots of history there. For example, in Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Thai Town, Olvera Street, there are lots of parades and celebrations of different backgrounds. Recently they had the Aid Walk in Little Tokyo, and every Christmas Eve or around December time, they have a Christmas parade in Lincoln Heights where all people from Los Angeles or any close area would come and do their parade or have a show for the audience. I believe the Aid Walk was for cancer awareness month. Los Angeles has lots of parade, but sometimes it’s very unsafe to live at. It depends on the neighborhood where you