French / Chinese (HongKong)My mom is Chinese, my dad is French. I was raised in France, by my mom. &
French / Chinese (HongKong)My mom is Chinese, my dad is French. I was raised in France, by my mom. When I speak cantonese people are surprised. When I told people my Chinese heritage, they are surprised as well. As I grew up I physically changed a lot, my face changed, my hair became curlier… So it made me confused, and people didn’t recognize me.HongKong was a British colony, and my Mom traveled a lot. I had the luck of going to a lot of countries by my young age. My name is English, my second name is French. I speak Cantonese and French to my mom. She speaks to me in Cantonese, French, Mandarin, and english. I call my mom “mama” in Chinese, I call my french grand “mamie” in French. She really loves languages and culture. Sometimes, it pissed me off to have that many languages, but now I see the advantage of having that good language exposition. I never knew my HongKong family, i’m closer with my french family. This summer I’m going to HongKong alone 2 months to know them, my mom’s culture in which I was raised, and to find my origins. I was’t really aware of my multicultural eurasian situation, until the last years (University). I once had troubles identifying myself between the french, Chinese, Hongkong (and yes even the HongKongers have doubt about their Chinese identity, I feel that it’s like an inception of identity for me).All these stuffs made me more sensible to the subject of identity, culture, language, philosophyI have many goals in life but I think my most important one is to travel, discover the world and get rid of the world’s intolerance, nationnality/racial/cultural tags.If you can relate to me, contact me : endingalaporte@gmail.com -- source link