The Importance Of Hmong Culture

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Consider something in your life you think goes unnoticed and write about why it’s important to you.
Something in my life that goes unnoticed is the presence of the Hmong culture fading away as we continue throughout the generations. This is important to me because I am Hmong and I have been strictly train to live that way and love my culture as it is. Being Hmong isn’t easy because there’s not really a way to trace it back to its origin so I really don’t know where I come from and how the culture came to be because thousands of years ago, the Chinese destroyed our written knowledge which is why elders prefer to memorize things and keep them in their head. However, the disadvantage of that is that the knowledge dies with them and right now as

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