Hmong Dawb And Nsuab Similarities

To account for the observed differences across languages in their grammatical structure, UG has incorporated into its structure a number of language- specific variations “which children have to learn as part of the task of acquiring their native language (Britton & Doake, 2005). Thus, language acquisition involves not only lexical learning but also some structural learning” (ibid, p.16)

While Barker focuses on clans in Papua New Guinea and Hedican on Scottish clans they both come to the same result, clans are hard to gain consistent information on and much of their histories are muddled, complicated, and contradictory specifically with the whom is related to who debacle and the ‘true’ back story/ symbols accompanying each clan. Both Authors also explore the kinship terms of Papua and how it differs from the Westerner way of labelling family members (cousin being the broadest Westerner term) compared to the flexible descent groups and hazy distinction that separates immediate and extended family in the villages of Papua New

Being a Hmong means their spiritual beliefs are a lot different than those of an American. For instance, a mother a Hmong child would birth her baby in their home with her own two hands. On the other hand, an American mother would birth her child in a hospital with medical staff. When Lia was born, she was born in the Merced Community Medical Center and at that point in her life she did not have epilepsy. At three months old Lia began having seizures. The seizures were blamed on her older sister because she once slammed a door and frightened Lia. Her parent’s belief was the slamming of the door scared her soul out of her body and made her lost. With an American family, this is not something they would typically believe in.

Kinship influences that one could marry and it governs many other aspects of everyday life.

We traditionally have a service in a church with reading form the scriptures and for the living to say their last good byes. I was raised in a multicultural family with minimal tradition, on the other hand my family are devoted Catholics. I value any family cultural tradition and religious belief however as the older generation has pass cultural tradition have been lost. Reading The Spirit Catch you and You Fall Down I was introduced to the Humong history and culture and became intrigue me how strong willed the Hmoung people are and how they had disperses among several different countries one of the countries being the Laos mountain . I happen to have a good friend that is Laos and noticed the Hmoung and Laos culture and similar yet different

An objective examination of the questionnaires reveals one distinct feature between the South Korean-American and the other two families (Filipino and Ukrainian). According to this assessment, the Filipino and Ukrainian individuals tend to strongly follow traditional social practices and customs in their daily lives. This is in big contrast to the South Korean-American representative. For example, the Ukrainian person holds on to religious practices as well as food customs. She admits that her family attends their religious institution consistently. Also, their diet tends to originate from their Ukrainian heritage and culture. The family prepares foods from their ethnic background, a strong indicator that they are perfectly in conformity with their original customs. In contrast to the South Korean-American representative, even though her family prepares their ethnic meals, they do not quite observe any religious customs according to the heritage assessment tool results.

The kinship chart that I drew, which represents my family, is very different from a Tibetan family. For a Tibetan family, it is highly common for brothers to share a wife. This is known as fraternal polyandry. The article “When Brothers Share a Wife” by Melvyn Goldstein describes the way fraternal polyandry works. Two or more brothers marry the same woman, live together and work together to help the family function. Polyandry is common because it helps all the brothers secure a better life, compared to if they were all living separately and were married to different women. In polyandry, it is usually ideal for the oldest brother to be the more authoritative one among the brothers. The wife has to treat all the brothers equally, and all the

In modern times rituals, have changed, those which were to honor ancestors for four generations changed to two or just those honoring their parents. However, these rituals remain an important part of their culture. Even as time passes they hold the same beliefs that honoring the deceased is important regardless of the generation. The Protestant Christianity in Korea also holds the same belief to remember their deceased parents and grandparents however some families celebrate or hold rituals in different ways. With Christianity and shamanism being in a fortified recently as well as historically you can see how far the traditions have changed throughout time but also how it has continued regardless of those

All people are different, but that does not mean we can isolate and take advantage of them. More specifically, the Hmong people should be respected regardless of their religion and beliefs. In the book, The Spirit Catches

“Your last name is Stanz? That doesn’t sound Indian at all.” I have heard this question a ridiculous amount of times. I always end up explaining the same story. When my dad came over from India, he filled out the paperwork backwards and put Kannan as his last name and Sankaran as his first; the correct way to do it in India. When my parents got married, my mom did not want to be named Barb Kannan or Barb Sankaran for that matter. So my parents did some brainstorming. They mixed my mom’s maiden name, Lutz, and Sankaran, my dad’s first/last name; and voilà, Stanz was born. Explaining this story over and over I can’t help but think, do last names have to represent ethnicity? Or can it mean more than that? Stanz does not equate

My personal experiences with religion and superstition are skewed due to the evolvement of the way I perceive things today. Furthermore, I can easily realize that I do not have this one set mind where everything should revolve around God and the Catholic Church. Taking time to understand why certain things happen for a reason, and gradually becoming aware of what people choose to believe in shaped my personal views on religion and the beliefs of unseen forces today. Based on Marvin Harris, the world may never have a solid answer as to why and how cultures decided to establish religious beliefs as well as superstition. As for the Hmong culture, however, there is a sign of major controversy with beliefs in religion and superstition. The practices of Eastern and Western medicine will meet in the middle despite culture clashes.

Therefore, the sheer variety of all the different structures that may be labelled "grammatical" is enormous. Some have exact parallel in the native language and are easily mastered; others have no parallels but are easy to learn but others are very difficult to grasp. When learning a FL grammar, it is important to try to learn a large number of different, though related, bits of knowledge and skills that allows us to communicate effectively in the target language. For example how to identify structures when spoken, how to identify their written form or even how to understand its meaning in context and produce meaningful sentences using them. However,

Chinese names appear in a different order than Western names. Each person has, in this order, a family, generational, and first name. Generational and given names can be separated by a space or a hyphen, but are frequently written as one word. The generational designation is usually the first word of a two-worded first name. This is still popular in some families, especially among the southerners and the overseas Chinese from the south. Most

The distinction between insertion and alternation is paramount for the analysis of CS as it analytically differentiates between different events of CS: one that involves only the use of one main language where a foreign word is inserted into the structure or another where two grammatical systems alternate in the construction of a single utterance.

Adjectives are words that modify a noun; they either name an inherent attribute of a thing. (Verspoor, 2000: 92). Adjective in English usually is located before noun to modify it. In translation world, adjective in ST becomes verb in TT is a normal phenomenon.