Hmong Parents

With the centrality of the family in Hmong culture, having sons or a son is very important as they are the ones who will take on the last name and lead the future generation of the family (Cha, 2010). Cha states, “The clannish nature of Hmong society favors a son. A family that does not have a son is viewed as a burden to the clan and community, because such a family will not contribute much to the community,” (p. 24). In the culture, the son(s) will take care of the parents as the daughter will get married and move to live with the husband’s family. Religion also plays a role since the traditional belief is that although the daughter can take care of the parents physically when they are alive, they cannot take care of them spiritually after they pass away. This is because the daughter becomes a part of the other family and cannot worship her parents’ spirits after death (Cha, 2010).

In this case, Oliver Hall is Saint Mary’s College main place for students to eat and where the research question is implemented with participant observation and a survey sent out. Race/ethnicity of Saint Mary’s students is the independent variable, which will vary among students. Interactions with Sodexo workers will depend on the race/ethnicity of the student, because it is the dependent variable and the amount of interactions will vary from student to student. The findings expected after looking at the data collect, is that students considered a minority will have more and/or meaningful interactions with

Hypothesis is typically used in quantitative research only. Moreover, when a question poses an inquiry on the relationship between two variables, a hypothesis is a statement declarative in nature of the relationship between different variables (Pajares 2007). A researcher chooses whether to use a question or a hypothesis depending on the purpose of the research, its objectives, the methodology for the research and the preference of the audience to receive the research. A researcher must be able to interpret the final outcome with reference to the research questions or the hypothesis used (Pajares 2007). A research requires a minimum of two hypotheses namely a null and an alternative hypothesis.

This book is certainly an eye opener. I always knew that culture played an important part in one’s everyday experience, but I never imagine it to be so extensive and tragic. When Dan Murphy stated “when you fail one Hmong patient, you fail the whole community”(p.253), I believe that he meant that as other Hmong families hear about Lia’s family tragic experience, they too feel the fear and disappointment caused by the health system of modern society. When another Hmong family has a sick child, they will hesitate to bring their child to the hospital because of the thinking that they may be forced to go against their cultural regimes. I think that whole Hmong family will neglect analyzing the Lia’s situation, and again run from the thinking that

Over a period of time, the Hmong people have immigrated from country to country due to oppression from governments and due to their involvement in wars. For this reason, Hmong people are now found living scattered across the globe (Tatman 2004). With no country to call home, they fled to the hillsides and mountain tops of nearby neighboring countries. As a result, the Hmong people had to reestablish their communities and families wherever the settled. Although the Hmong’s lacked a formal government and a central leader, Hmong families were often lead by a dominant male figure within the family who was responsible for the decision making and wellbeing of the group (Long 2008). The social structure found within Hmong communities and Hmong

Cultural Perspective in the Hmong Community The abuses that were mentioned the Hmong community is still happening in America today, yet we do not hear much about it. The reason being may be the cultural perspective in the Hmong community that prohibit or limits an individual to report these abuses. In the article Hmong Immigrants’ Perception of Family Secrets and Recipients of Disclosure, it examines the issues that Hmong families’ have of keeping secrets and it discusses the things that Hmong families consider to be secrets and why these families keep it within themselves. The Hmong are a very conservative group of people and telling others about their family problems can lead to stigma, shame, and humiliation (Xiong, 2006).

For my future study I would like to research how these articles effects the general public’s view of African American athletes. I would do this by surveying groups of classrooms, students around campus, and showing them athletes. I would show them both African American athletes and White Athletes. I would ask them how they feel about these athletes, why they feel this way about them, and what have they heard about them in the media. After collecting this data, and gathering my conclusion from it, I would like to go back and do another survey. I would go to classrooms of students and show them positive media and tell them the good things that African American athletes have done. I would give them the same survey asking how the feel about these athletes, why they feel this way, and what they have heard about them in the media. To further explore this belief future research would have to be conducted that tested and compared subjects’ racial attitudes toward both a positive and a negative television portrayal of African Americans. In attempts to further examine racial attitudes and media portrayals, this same study could be done with the addition of a pre-test that evaluates media portrayals as being either negative or positive. In addition, future research could expose subjects to repeated treatments or media of African American athletes. I feel this research would be different because it would look at the effects from positive portrayals of African American athletes, and

‘The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures’ is a book written in 1997 by the author Anne Fadiman. This book is based on a true story of the life of a Hmong child, Lia Lee who is epileptic. She suffers from numerous grand mal seizures and eventually she becomes vegetative for the remainder of her life. The intention of this book, however, is not Lia’s condition, but to highlight the problems that exist between the two cultures and the constant battles that Lia’s doctors and parents face due to the cultural barriers that exist between them. This is not just only a story of an ill child but about the more diverse battle between Eastern and Western medicine and how each view and treat patients in such different ways. In this essay the different health-seeking strategies used during Lia’s illness, the contrasting views between Lia’s parents and the American healthcare professionals and the theories of illness causation will be discussed.

My parents, both Hmong, came to America in 1987. A safe and prosperous environment to grow up in, full of knowledge and money. They believed in the opportunities and achievements that America held for my siblings and I, chances that they never had in their life. I come from a family, that talks very little about how we care and love one another. My parents rarely gave my siblings and I praises, whenever we accomplished things.

To test my hypothesis about children who are brought up privileged or coddled does not rest in Affluenza the research method discussed will be a survey.

The base of the Polynesian culture has always been family. We know we're nothing without them. Growing up with 9 siblings, our financial situation was anything but stable. Therefore, providing for my present and future family is something I constantly strived for. Although I had a problem, I needed to find a way to take care of my family. In Polynesian families, when your financial situation isn't the best, it's extremely common to be pressured into excelling in sports. It's seen as your "only way out". Fortunately for me, I never felt that pressure because I was never seen as "athletic". Naturally, I gravitated towards books and instead of winning a game, I made my parents proud through academic achievements. After realizing education would

The participants were all asked a series of demographic questions; age, race, gender, living arrangement and income. When the participants were asked age the results showed that nearly all of the participants were in the 18-24 range at 95% of the sample then leaving 5% between 25-30, the study also had the exhaustive bracket of 30 or older but no participants identified in this category. Race, my results revealed that ¾ or 75% of individuals identified as White, while 15% identified as other and 10% identified as Black. I also had a category for Asian, but the study had no participants within the sample. Gender, found that 70% of participants identified with being female while, only 30% male. Participants were given income brackets to choose from which results revealed that large majority of participants were of an income range of 0- $14,999 at 80% and the other 20% were of an income of 25,000-50,000. Last demographic question on the questionnaire was living arrangement, out of the 20 participants 19 of the individuals were Single, and 1 noted that they had a partner, neither married or other were chosen. The only result that confirms a portion of my research hypothesis is that the study had an elevated amount of female participants, that was more women volunteer than men, using the idea that’s one must volunteer to participate in research.

Filipino family and American Family are both celebrating holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries in similar and somewhat different aspects. Filipino family are celebrating Christmas by visiting church not as same as American Family. During the Christmas season in the Philippines "Misa de Gallo" or night mass, is a novena of dawn masses starting from December 16-24, a tradition for Filipinos. Filipinos believe in the superstitious belief that if you completed Misa De Gallo which is 9 consecutive nights of masses, 1 wish would be granted. Significantly different from the masses that held here in US. In contrast to US families some families wouldn’t

The research question or hypotheses narrows the purpose statement. It predicts what will be learned and the questions studied. A research question must indicate a target population. It must identify the dependent variable and the independent variable(s) as well as answer what is the desired knowledge or conclusion. Accurate results come from a good research question. Variables must be clearly defined. Based on the data extrapolated from the study, the question should be answerable. Finally, there must be a need to answer the question. A good research question foreshadows the research design. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the

Understand that research questions and research hypotheses are not the same thing. Research questions must foreshadow the data analyses. The overriding purpose of quantitative research is to understand differences. On the other hand, if qualitative research inductively hurls fascinating, frequently shocking and in some cases nonsensical connections and patterns, quantitative research is then ready to ask how much and build up how sure we can be in these working hypotheses. This iterative relationship in the middle of explaining and describing gives the way to a successful blend of methods and data. In this example of a hypothetical quantitative research design, a political analysts think that income influences voting decisions, that rich people vote differently from poor people. It