The Hmong Culture

I think what he meant on that statement was that even if we could communicate effectively using an inerpreter but there were still so many differences in opinions that the problems would still have existed. What we see as abuse and neglect in our own culture, which can result in losing your child like what happened in the book. It looks like look that's how the Hmongs takes care and show how they loved their children and family . Even if the language barrier was solved, the problem will still exist due to misunderstanding. As the book points out, the Hmong people don't understand the concept of organs and diseases with causes other than what they believed. They would have to be taught the concepts of health, human body, illness, and disease …show more content…
Animism is the belief in the spirit world and all living things are interconnected, The same reason why they blame a soul stealing creature for all of their illnessses and misfortunes. They don't have any educated explanations to why things happened. Compared to American doctors that have a strong sense in their education. These doctors knows the causes, symptoms, effects and treatments various diseases, but their education, mostly their cultural knowledge, is limited to our culture, the American culture. The Hmong on the other hand have a completely different understanding of life, and how it works. They didn't just make up some elaborate stories to rebel against the methods we us in western medication. Their explanations about healings of these dabs are as complex and frightening, just like how we would describe these …show more content…
Most Hmong believed that the body contains a finite amount of blood and it is unreplishable, so taking one's blood can be dangerous or fatal especially for kids. Surgery is a taboo for the reason that disfiguring or cutting, or losing any body parts damages the person and become physically ill and incomplete in his next lifetime , and that autopsies could prevent souls from being reincarnated and believe that the souls take revenge on the living. This is why western doctors struggles with their Hmong patients for those reasons and