Julie Thao
HSER 395-02
Personal Cultural Analysis
February 19th, 2015
My primary ethnic heritage is Asian more specifically stripe, white Hmong. I interviewed my mother Yia Vang and my father Moua Thao about our family history and the origin of the ethnic Hmong. I have been informed that I look a lot like my mother from my sisters and friends tell me that I look different from my siblings. My ancestors originated from Northern China where they lived off the land alongside the Yellow River prior to the Chinese Dynasty. During this period of time Hmong people had a king who helped maintain the balance of harmony before this war between the Chinese and Hmong people. After the war Hmong people loss their king and land that they once had owned. …show more content…
This was where she had met my father and they got married, and not long after my two older sisters were born. During the Vietnam War there was another war going on at the time, this war is known as the CIA Secret War which went undocumented for a while and that is why there’s not much information known about it. Prior to the CIA Secret War the United States requested for assistance from Hmong because our great grandfathers knew the battlegrounds better the the United States. Therefore, General Vang Pao as a Hmong soldier led thousands of Hmong men to assist the United States against the communist. After the war ended and the United States withdrew from the Vietnam War and the Hmong were left behind to defend for themselves against the communist. They loss their farm lands, homes, animals, and ended in the jungles hiding and fighting with what their remaining to protect themselves from communist soldiers and had to set forth this journey to find safety. So, the Hmong people travel at night to escape persecution. In 1987, my parents could no longer remain in Laos due to the continuous political persecutions from the communist and so they paid Laotian boaters to escape into Thailand for safety. After their arrival in Thailand they remained in refugee camps in Phayao where families lived with each other in crammed households sections and the United Nation distributed …show more content…
In 1989, my parents then moved to Minnesota and resided in Saint Paul and by the summer I was born. My mother and father at the time don’t recall of any laws upon arrival enacted in the United States at the time to regulate or target Hmong. However, the only law regarding regulation is that not being a citizen they were not authorized to participate in presidential elections. Their travel, housing, medical, and living expenses were paid at the time with a loan provided by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in which is still being paid off
HSER 395-02
Personal Cultural Analysis
February 19th, 2015
My primary ethnic heritage is Asian more specifically stripe, white Hmong. I interviewed my mother Yia Vang and my father Moua Thao about our family history and the origin of the ethnic Hmong. I have been informed that I look a lot like my mother from my sisters and friends tell me that I look different from my siblings. My ancestors originated from Northern China where they lived off the land alongside the Yellow River prior to the Chinese Dynasty. During this period of time Hmong people had a king who helped maintain the balance of harmony before this war between the Chinese and Hmong people. After the war Hmong people loss their king and land that they once had owned. …show more content…
This was where she had met my father and they got married, and not long after my two older sisters were born. During the Vietnam War there was another war going on at the time, this war is known as the CIA Secret War which went undocumented for a while and that is why there’s not much information known about it. Prior to the CIA Secret War the United States requested for assistance from Hmong because our great grandfathers knew the battlegrounds better the the United States. Therefore, General Vang Pao as a Hmong soldier led thousands of Hmong men to assist the United States against the communist. After the war ended and the United States withdrew from the Vietnam War and the Hmong were left behind to defend for themselves against the communist. They loss their farm lands, homes, animals, and ended in the jungles hiding and fighting with what their remaining to protect themselves from communist soldiers and had to set forth this journey to find safety. So, the Hmong people travel at night to escape persecution. In 1987, my parents could no longer remain in Laos due to the continuous political persecutions from the communist and so they paid Laotian boaters to escape into Thailand for safety. After their arrival in Thailand they remained in refugee camps in Phayao where families lived with each other in crammed households sections and the United Nation distributed …show more content…
In 1989, my parents then moved to Minnesota and resided in Saint Paul and by the summer I was born. My mother and father at the time don’t recall of any laws upon arrival enacted in the United States at the time to regulate or target Hmong. However, the only law regarding regulation is that not being a citizen they were not authorized to participate in presidential elections. Their travel, housing, medical, and living expenses were paid at the time with a loan provided by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in which is still being paid off