Speech About Hmong Wedding

We all heard of the word “weddings”, but do not understand how important is wedding to other cultures. We live in a society call the “Melting Pot” which is mean very diversity, where there are so many races living together. Sometimes people blend in with other culture or change their traditions and values. Despite to the loss of identity, some culture still keeps their traditions or holiday, but add a little change to it. Today I will be examining the Hmong communities, on the things they do and something they slightly change over time. Before we get into talk about Hmong Weddings, I would like to inform you all that we will be interview Peter Thao 70 years old and Kimberly Lee 19 years of age. These Two will be giving their own opinion or perspective about Hmong weddings. They will be answering five question relevant to the weddings. My first interviewer is Kimberly Lee who will answer the following questions due to her own experience and thought. This first question is Do the elders in your family talk about how things were different when they were young or do keep the traditions going? Yes, My family and I do talk about it sometimes because my father who’s a strict person wanted us to keep and remember our own traditions and believe. I remember he will force us to listen to Hmong folktales and expect us to remember the story. I grow up learning so much about my culture and learn to embrace my traditions as blessings. When I was at the age of twelve my sister Lisa got married to another clan that we were taboo from married. My dad told me that back in Laos there is no government monitoring them so they make their own rules to follow. These rules are made up from different clans leader and no one can violate them. So back in Laos my Lee clans are not permit to married to the Moua clan. …show more content…
Peter first question is “How are Hmong wedding organize”? Hmong wedding is to represent the race of Hmong , and it is something that has been pass from generations to generations. Hmong wedding is to have a bride, groom, green lady, negotiator and best man because these are the five main important person. The negotiator job is to talk with the bride side of the family and get some agreement between the two families. The green lady is to monitor the bride and the best man is also looking after the groom. When they arrive at the bride parents house they eat talk, and with the parents and pay the price of the bride. The dowry was not something call selling your daughter, it a sign of the groom respect to the bride family. Peter Thao says that back in Laos a bride price is up to ten thousand dollars, but recently the clans have decreased the price to five thousand dollars, because of economic. Peter Thao also believe that this is good to the communities because this is part of our culture and we should not throw away our traditions. At the end of the interview I ask each of them do they think we should keep this tradition, and they both agree that we should because this is something we always were doing when it comes to wedding. This can also be good to teach younger kids that we are Hmong and we have traditions so do not lose