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    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

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    Reflection 1: Hmong studies Over the years of growing up as a Hmong Female I have always had a personal interest in learning more about my culture. After my evaluation Hmong Studies Journal, Volume 9 by Jacques Lemoine, I can agree with some of his studies, as a western Hmong I would never agree that the Kexiong, Hmu, are Hmong. I disappointed to see that there are so many confusion about the hmong history. In my opinions, I cannot understand why the Chinese historian can say that the Kexiong

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    Hmong Culture Case Study

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    cultural beliefs and lack of education. These elements could absolutely complicate the medical system. One of the immigrant population who began to migrate gradually to the United States in the 18th century is the Hmong. They arrived in the United States with their traditional customs. Hmong culture, in general, is entirely different from the way of life in the United States. In particularly, Hmong’s health care has completely different systems of health in the America. Their health care depends extremely

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    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. On the day of the wedding the bride wore Hmong clothing

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    According to an article by http://classroom.synonym.com titled; The Hmong People's Involvement in the Vietnam War, this group of people were effected during the war by the loss of more than 25% of its people. After the loss of so many people in order to continue this “secret war” they began recruiting children as young as thirteen years of age. After the war that really never ended many migrated to the United States and lived in refugee camps. However, many remained and continued fighting the war

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    The Hmong people claim to have helped in the Vietnam war, but no one knows who they are and how they helped. The Hmong came from southeast Asia, many fled from the war as a refuge from their country and some people were a refugee in their own country. It’s melancholy that people need to do this, but northern Vietnam had different political views. The main cause was a political view and northern Vietnam people started a war and it has dragged on for a while, the war caused many deaths in the Hmong

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    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

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    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

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    groups, such as the Hmong, are ignored or given less attention. The Vietnamese, the Americans, the Chinese, and the Soviets were not the only key players in this war; the Hmong, the Lao, and the Thai people were also involved. Often, these groups of people’s contributions and struggles during the war are not acknowledged. Incidentally, one memoir written by Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong refugee, successfully provides a representative scope of the brutal impacts that this war left on the Hmong refugees. The Latehomecomer:

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    his diagnosis, it was as if the doctor was forcing Sam to accept a new culture. As we saw for the Hmong people who came to the United States, many of whom actively rejected any forms of assimilation, desiring instead to replicate the same life they had previously in Laos. When assimilation became necessary in order to improve their lives, they had no one to help them to harmonize American and Hmong culture which led to disastrous results. Here we can see a parallel: Sam wants to stick to his image

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