Hmong customs and culture

Down by Anne Fadiman. It will point to several different times when cultural disagreements lead to distinct negative or positive effects on Lia’s health. It will also show how, despite overcoming almost all of the cultural disagreements amongst the Hmong and American doctors, Lia’s health still failed. A counter argument claiming that the doctors hold more responsibility than the Lee’s for Lia’s declining health is also provided and rebuked. The book was written over the course of several…

The Latehomecomer is the best story I ever read. The author is a good writer with words that connects images, emotion, and spirit in a way that keeps the reader still read. When I read this, I observed my own thoughts and emotions while reading through The Latehomecomer. The Latehomecomer was a book or story about a young girl named Yang who is an immigrant and who has been in America for ten years living with poor resources. She tells the story in a way I as a reader enjoy. The latehomecomer…

knowing that it is hard to understand American Medicine from the lens of the Hmong culture, especially when the time wasn’t always taken for things to be fully explained or were nearly impossible because of interpretation difficulties. As I read on, and gained a better…

revolutionized into a new traditional era of American health culture. A new culture that now focuses on its fundamental foundation to follow guidelines, rules, and procedures. Medicine and culture have crashed and caused misunderstandings with the results of poor outcomes. The use of medicine has changed and due to prejudice in cultural mixture in beliefs and religion, lack of interest, and the use of cultural home remedies over medicine. Culture has been recognized as…

Transition to Thao fixing up the neighborhood as repayment for attempting to steal from Walt and there is a reversal of the teaching role. Now Walt teaches Thao about American culture and how to be a man. Thao’s life becomes better after this as he gets physically stronger, a job, and a girlfriend. Thao was now becoming the man he wished to be but was never able to accomplish. Walt’s teachings impacted Thao in a similar way to…

Gran Torino made its way onto the big screen in 2009. The main character, Walt, is a racist man who is not in favor of his neighborhood being replaced with people of other races. Being a veteran of the Korean War it bothers him having a lot of Asians moving into his neighborhood. His views of the other race begin to slowly change as he develops an unlikely friendship with the teens next door. This friendship is what turned him from an old grumpy racist into the neighborhood hero. This movie was…

You Fall Down Culture creates morals, values, and beliefs within an individual, and these characteristics must be understood and respected. Anne Fadiman brings this issue to light in her book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Common culture-barriers in the medical field can cause medical malpractice, disagreements on necessary procedures, and religion malpractice. Throughout her novel, Fadiman explains that the difficulties in cross-cultural treatment is due to two cultures having…

will be represented through analyzing some of the interactions between the immigrated Hmong population and the American population via the conflict perspective. The macro level of social work includes practice with large populations, such as whole cities, states, or non-place populations like cultures of people; therefore, this level is appropriate for examining the interactions and power dynamics between two cultures in the context of the town of Merced in the United…

is often referred to as a melting pot, rich with culture that combines together to make one united country, but Amy Tan and many other Chinese Americans come to realize that the melting process is very difficult. Chinese American’s complete assimilation into the American culture can be near impossible with so many hardships. Their assimilation struggles include embarrassment, staying true to the family, and trying to blend the unique Chinese customs with those of Americans, which can be proved…

“We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn’t pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it’s not fair. Bad things happen to good people,” - Laurie Halse Anderson. The concept of adolescence is a universal phenomenon that includes the transition from a child into a young adult. It is the exact moment where a young individual discovers their newfound values and incorporate those principles onto…