Hmong Role Loss

Imagine having your identity and culture stripped away from you. This is what has happened to many Indigenous people throughout history in Canada. This has been done through the process of colonization. There are many devastating impacts of colonization that has affected Indigenous people all over Canada including racism and stereotyping as well as the downfall of the health of Indigenous people. Racism against Indigenous people has been a major impact of colonialism throughout the years. The racism and institutionalized racism has grown over the years and has made it complicated for many Indigenous people to practice their spirituality and culture. There are also many health consequences of colonization including starvation, disease, mental illness and addiction. There are many impacts of colonization that have affected Indigenous people throughout history and continue to impact them today.

The most valuable assets of our world are our mothers. The mother means soil. Mothers carry us in their womb for nine months and give their life. Mother, who carries the child in her belly, gives birth like soil, and raises the child in her breast.  Thanks to her, our roots go deep, and our branches go the top. In Native Americans, the tribes are separated from the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest.  In some tribes, married couples lived near the wife's family and the mother was considered the head of the family. Linage was passed down through the women, and women were seen as equal partners to the men (Native American cultures: Family life, kinship, and gender, 1996b, para. 4). An example of the mother being a strong figure is in the story of the Corn Mother. There was a family that did not have food to eat. The mother decided to sacrifice herself by dragging her body over the fields and burying her bones there. Every year after that, corn and tobacco grew due to her sacrifice and love (The sun and the Moon: Myths from around the world, 2017). In any case, it is still far less demanding for American-Indian women to discover a role to accommodate their families and set up a profession stepping stool than it is for American-Indian

But this division is not inevitable; Pamela Cotant’s article concerning a Hmong Literacy Club in Wisconsin is proof. The literacy club sends home Hmong homework for students to complete with their parents (Cotant), allowing parents the ability to take an active role in their children’s educational lives. No longer useless or inferior, the simple act of a parent and child working on homework together can bridge divides gouged by the American school system. The literacy club also helps Hmong American children connect with their relatives by teaching them their shared language and culture (Cotant). It is obvious that a language barrier can obstruct connection and communication, and that common language and community are essential to success. Due

The Hmong people are a people of diaspora and are an ethnic minority group who, have been a group of people who were basically unknown up until three decades ago. They are of unknown origin and are often misplaced from country to country and often have to assume many different hyphenated identities to fit in with the mainstream culture. As Hmong Americans they have gone from being unable to read and write to being educated; which has led to Hmong writers, congressmen and women, to scholars, and to many other respectable occupations. Though, before being able to become a writer or a scholar, a Hmong American student is often troubled and stressed about their ethnic identity and that can lead to struggles in their academics. This topic is important to me because being a Hmong American and a college student; these two aspects of life are playing a big role in my life right now. Through my paper there is one question that I am hoping to answer and the question is: How does having a hyphenated identity affect Hmong American students in their academics?

The Hmong have withstood the test of time against all odds. Over the course of many centuries “the Hmong have responded to persecution and to pressure to assimilate by either fighting or migrating” (p. 13). They have been continuing on with this lifestyle for so long it seems in be a genetic trait. Even while relocating their home over the centuries, their culture, tradition, and values remained the same. The Hmong “do not like to take orders…they do not like to lose…they would rather flee, fight, or die than surrender…they are not intimidated by being outnumbered” (p. 17). This predisposition of theirs can be directly applied towards their relationship with the American health system. Being on the forefront of Western “modern” medicine it’s

The history of the Hmong people is long and complicated, but that history is what makes the Hmong, Hmong. Throughout the existence of the Hmong, tradition has always been important and hundreds have died to protect the Hmong way. Traditions are taught to each new generation, and with these traditions came the believe that Hmong are free and you must never betray your own people because Hmong protect Hmong. This ideology has helped the Hmong survive persecution from surrounding peoples. The preservation of Hmong tradition and customs is what has caused the Hmong to fight enemies or migrate to other surrounding areas. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman helps highlight the Hmong history and their struggle with preserving traditions and the Hmong culture as a whole. The Hmong have always united and stayed connected because in times of struggle or hardship, they cling to their traditions and ways. When the Hmong came to America, Americans wanted the Hmong to assimilate to their culture, and that not only contradicts what the Hmong fought for but also insulted them.

The Hmong Culture is very interesting. Approximately 25,000 Hmong reside in Fresno, California. In the Hmong culture the men must pay a price for their wives. Usually the price for a bride often ranges from $3,000 to $10,000. Traditionally, the groom’s side of the family must go to the bride’s home and ask her parents for permission to be wed. After both sides reach an agreement, then the next day a feast is held to celebrate their engagement.

Growing up, I lived in a close-knit community where the majority of families around me were Hmong, like myself. Therefore, I didn’t know or understand what racism, discrimination, and stereotypes was until I was in school and was exposed to other cultural groups, which resulted in my experience of childhood bullying. Students from my elementary school made comments that my family

Everyone has different culture and their own belief. In Kansas City Hmong has their own culture and they have express their culture in the mural on the 751 Minnesota Ave. That whole Murals tells Hmong story and how they come to United State and start living on the Kansas.

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

Based on the issues described early the Hmong population needs to understand the benefit treatment offer the individual, families and their communities. It helps with alleviates stigmas to the family and their culture when becoming aware of how mental and substance use may influence negative change in a population. Since ethno-culturally diverse individual, families, nation, and communities may have different beliefs, religions, and economic-status. May cause treatment challenges when counseling both the individuals and their families to encounter variation amongst the professionals and the client. Since their conditioned and may have instilled afflictions, fear, anger, and distrust when it comes to the introducing the American way of life,

This research paper focuses on the identification of Hmong culture, elucidating specific generational differences in America that are considered the major division of the Hmong community appropriately. There are a few distinguishing common, yet complex challenges of living between the older and younger generations. Based on the studies of psychosocial perspectives today’s modern Hmong group and their distinctive views of socialism, activities and everyday life that affect his or her lifestyle. This essay will cover three important topics: Culture clash between generations of Hmong in America; How traditional culture is still significant in older generations’ modern life, and the disagreements they have to face within their community.

I am a breathtaking, stunning, and outstanding student. I am these things because I know that even before reading this essay, the first thing you read was my name. Most of the faculties that are reading this essay are probably thinking, “oh, it’s another Asian student whose name I’m not sure how to pronounce,” or “that sandwich for lunch was good, I should’ve taken another bite before I came here.” Before anything else, I am Hmong. It’s a subculture that is quite spread throughout Southeast Asia. I was born in Thailand and immigrated to the United States in October 2004. There are seven members in my father’s household. Having a Confucian ideology binded within me, I almost always put my family’s needs before my own. I would tell myself that if something does not benefit me, then I don’t need it. Then on, I hated going shopping like normal girls because I don’t want to burden my family with financial problems. If, however, I needed something, my mom would have already bought them for me. When my older sister entered her senior year in high school, I decided to do all the chores I could in the house. It was demanding and exhausting, but because I decided to do most of the chores, my sister finally had more time to herself and was

Thuy Vo Dang’s presentation, I overall think the ideas she discussed and mentioned are important in several ways. The idea that a community may lose an essential component of its identity is something I believe is crucial to prevent. The archive process seems like the ideal manner to preserve the narratives of the members of a community, as indicated by the example of Vietnamese American immigrants. I would have like to have learned more about the other communities the archive interacts with, specifically with the Hmong. Regarding what I know about the culture associated with the Hmong, it may be possible that the archive process may have differed drastically due to the Hmong and the Vietnamese having different experiences with immigrating to the US as

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