How has doing these interviews changed your view from the beginnings to now?

So when I start off interview people, in the beginning, I just think that oh, City Heights is diverse, and we just, simple stuff, but we go into deeply, you see a lot of powerful things, like how diversity deal with each other, and how like different ethnic groups work with each other because they have different cultures, different perspective of like the way people look, the way people talk, and the way they respect each other. So it's really interesting because some people when you do something, the other ethnic group is different, you know? You don't really learn in a minute, like, how they deal with each other and and how they get along even though their culture is not the same. Most people, we think, oh, this diverse is, even though they are diversity they don't get along, but it's not like [that] in City Heights. Everyone get along. And they go to each other events and they participate in each other culture and then they try different things so they are really like communicate, and they really get along. And there's a lot of like different stuff, and more stuff that you never would learn and you never would get the answer for it.

How do you think diversity has changed?

Well for me, I came here in 2012. Like, when I live in Thailand there's not diverse, so I don't really know about diversity, but when I got to San Diego, City Heights, I see a lot of diversity, and first I got scared, but at the same time, I'm happy, because there's not only me who is learning English or learning different culture. So I have a lot of friends who are from different country, and they are really nice and, yeah, because I thought they would be mean and won't like me because I'm different race than them but it turned out opposite, so I'm happy, and it's really nice to get to know other people who are from different country and from different race, because you learn different things.

So you think learning other people culture like, they teach you something else new that you never expected in your life before?

It does because, the way the culture is, it's really interesting, and I'm a person who likes to learn other people's culture. And I don't know, for me, it's just so powerful to learn and it's really important, because that is who we are in the world and we don't have to, but it's good to know how many languages, how many dialect, and how many people live in the world, yeah.

So you're telling me that you feel that you fit in City Heights, that your life fits in City Heights. Can you please tell me how?

I feel like I fit in City Heights because I feel welcome and I feel like everyone is nice, but some people would say City Heights is really ghetto, and then, there's a lot bad people, like criminal, and all that stuff. For me it's not, because I can walk alone, I'm not scared of those kind of stuff. And I feel fit it because, like people are really loving, caring for you even though they are not the same ethnic group as you. I imagine myself going to other state or the place where, like my family are the only ethnicity that is different and other people are the same race. I would feel left out and I would feel, you know, put myself down because I'm learning English and I don't know how to speak English really well. That would push myself down, and yeah, I would feel left out, wouldn't fit in, because all the same ethnic and the same group and I'm the only one different.

Thank you.