Hmong American

Cambodian refugees and Vietnamese refugees also share differing experiences when it pertains to the topic of hardships faced when fleeing one’s homeland. Although both groups faced complications when fleeing their homeland, the complications and obstacles they faced were distinct. As for the Cambodian refugees, an abundant amount died during the journey to freedom. According to Kuy, “An estimated 3 million died during the Killing Fields, from torture, execution, starvation and disease. Some…

and Racism in the Modern- Day American society. Stated in your essay, you claim that Man is the only animal that organizes it’s wars. Man gathers it’s men and sheds the blood of the innocent. The U.S government invaded the country of Vietnam, located in Southeast Asia, in order to force upon their…

pictures during this trip, because my family, we don’t usually go to trip like this. It’s a once in awhile. There’s a lot of people around me. The sidewalk was crowded. A lot of different race such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Hmong, Koreans, Americans, African Americans, and Mexicans, came to tour around Chinatown. This is the first time I’ve been to Chinatown and it is not what I expected. It is so small not much to shop because most of the store are restaurants. I expected to have a lot…

exemplified by the cases raised by African American, and Asian American groups. The success of such cases is contingent upon a suitable political climate. It has been argued that the Supreme Court makes rulings that it believes can be implemented. Unlike Congress which holds the ‘power of the purse’ or the executive branch which can issue executive orders to carry out its goals, the judiciary has no…

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…

my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…

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…

The African-American survived due to the fact they helped each other, they took care of each other not only blood relatives but others also. During slavery everyone helped to raise each other’s children especially when parents were sold to other slave owners, other adults in the slave community took care of the children left behind, many slaves protected each other in spite of tribal and language differences. The biggest fear of families then was the threat of a child being sold. Even today…

had noticed that a lot of the Hmong men and women wore a bracelets or anklets that were made from cloth and they were placed on so the person was unable to remove it without it being cut off. The men and women would become really upset and sometimes even combative when the officers would cut them off. I assumed they were important to them because maybe their children had made them, I was wrong in assuming that. My Hmong friend wears the same bracelet that the Hmong people were wearing when…

extent did the use of drugs affect the American soldiers fighting the Vietnam War? How readily available were drugs during the Vietnam War? And to what extent did the use of drugs in the war have on the families when they returned home? To what extent did the use of drugs affect the American soldiers fighting the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese were fighting America, the Vietcong were fighting in an unexpected, surprising and deceptive way to work out the Americans strengths and exploit their…