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Hmong Culture Essay

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Families around the world all have different beliefs and religions that they follow. Some move to America just so they can give their families a better life, but that doesn’t mean that they leave behind the traditions that they followed. It just makes it difficult sometimes for them adjusting to the American ways compared to how they were used too back in their country. Especially when it comes down to how people get sick and how they are treated so that they can get better. Here we discuss about the Hmong culture and how there’s a difference with how they heal people compared to how it’s done in America. Healing someone can be through medicine or any type of treatment from some kind of doctor or as the Hmong heal, they use a shaman. A shaman is a person with a …show more content…

The Hmong culture comes from china and it’s a way of paying tribute to the Chinese government. For example, the lees come from the Chinese government that were settled in Laos which was in Thailand. So they are very traditional when it comes to believing in their beliefs, such as the healing process. They don’t like any type of treatment or medicine wise to cure them, they use a healer in their words a shaman which in other words they describe it as a txiv neeb describing a person with the healing spirit. A couple reasons why they look up to them healing is because they can take the bad spirit’s away and don’t need to pay for any type of consultation like you do when you’re in the hospital. To the Hmong people, quag dab peg is an honor (Fadiman 1998, pp.22). The way they also do there healing is by getting rid of the evil spirit and a special ceremony where there has to be an animal sacrificed and drums are played. No matter where they are the shaman will be there for the

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