I really enjoyed this video and loved the part near the end when you were speaking with the older gentleman and his modern perspective on the love market. Thanks so much for sharing your channel on TH-cam.
Hi Van, I really appreciated the more educated take on the Hmong traditions. My partner is a Vietnamese Hmong from the north, and I am closely engaged with many people from the northern Hmong communities, who have in the past received a lot of negative judgment from the Kinh people. They can often be looked at as less due to their perceived outdated backward ways and rougher lifestyle, but there's obviously a lot more to their culture, so it's nice that you touched on this a little in your video. You filmed it very respectfully, which was great to see.
9:58 Thank you for the video I learned so much about Hmong culture. I have a Vietnamese coworker. She's told me a little about this but i've learned so much more from your video.
Hi Van Vu..., "Love Market" "Want to get married ?" Only kidding... * As I learn new cultures in foreign countries..., this one... caught me by surprise ! * Van Vu ..., you are bright, intelligent, and attractive... Living in Vietnam and on a ( working cattle ranch ) in America..., would undoubtedly be different... * Although..., when I pass away..., you would be..., one very ( rich ) and a beautiful young lady in Vietnam and or the United States... * Excellent video and very informative, and thank you for sharing the video... I do ( love ) your Vietnamese culture and traditions, and your parents... * "Yes..., you are bright, intelligent and attractive... Mike in Montana :)
Your videos are amazing, I'm happy to learn so much about Vietnamese culture. I'm definitely gonna have to visit because your videos, but without asking to bride kidnap anyone because that'd be awkward.
Great video Van Vu!!! I appreciate you delving into a seemingly outdated practice to get to the roots of the tradition! Also, you look so beautiful in those Hmong clothes! 😍
A great adventure video, remembering my time in the Sapa region and the border with China. The beautiful indigenous people are very shy and uncomfortable with their pictures being taken. I love that place and I could live out my life there. Thank you for sharing your pictures.
WOW, learned something new again here. Thank you. Mind boggling. You look great in those traditional clothes. I had to laugh when you told that man you're from Philippines. When I hear about Asia, I always think first of China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
In the future, please pronounce H'Mong as Mong (H is silent). As a Hmong person from the US, I also agree that this "tradition" needs to stop. This "tradition" is unacceptable in the US and should be treated the same in any other countries. On another note, you look beautiful in Hmong clothes. Keep up the great videos!
Van looks gorgeous in ethnic dress, I hope she doesn't get swarmed. Gruff Clint Eastwood couldn't resist H'mong cuisine, he said it was better than beef jerky. Gran Torino may be the best film he's ever directed.
A street gang attempt to recruit Clint's neighbour's kid into their ranks. A fight breaks out and Clint show up with his shotgun and tells the street gang to get off his lawn. After that his neighbourhood treats him like a diety: th-cam.com/video/s4MLZ4WsXc4/w-d-xo.html
Love watching videos like these. I learned a lot and I am very interested to interact with these locals once I visit Vietnam. If you can do more videos like these would be great if you can go to the Northern areas where their village is thanks and keep doing what you’re doing. By the way you look great in that Hmong attite and I laugh when you mentioned my country Philippines 😂.
I remember we also got this tradition somewhere in China for a particular ethnics. I'm surprised by the "sold to China" scenario. If it's true, I feel very sorry for that. I'm Chinese and I met two excellent Vietnamese students here in Shanghai. They are from decent family and got scholarship, richer than me.. That's my only impression to Vietnamese.
hi my gitl friend loves the dress you wore.she always gets me to ware clothing that locals ware too .we are travelling north vietnam in october and would like to know where the stall was you buy it from so she can buy one.and if there are other places that she can dress up could you let me know so i can add them to our list of things to do .we go hanoi ca ca bay sapa and Bac ha markets we have 2 weeks to fill
Love it, Van looks pretty in Hmong outfit ... to get out of poverty they should graduated from college, get a good paying job then think about family ... normal people we still have 60+ years after college to go so family should not be rush ...
Van you look absolutely stunning in that Hmong tradition dress. I would love to go here and see if anyone wants to kidnap me cause my dad thinks I'm too western and no one from Vietnam would want me 🥺
Woww this video 📹 was very interesting and incredible!!Congrats 🎊! I feel in Vietnam 🇻🇳 I learn a different thing every day! Right now I start to read a book 📙 about the Vietnam' history and culture. The last weekend we went by motorbike 🛵 to Ninh Binh, oh my God 😀, it's a beautiful and lovely place with a lot of history!
Interesting. I live in Fresno, California, home to one of the largest Hmong populations in the United States. Bride kidnapping isn't a thing here, as far as I know, but I'm on the outside looking in, so to speak. Their New Year's celebrations last a week and the food is great. Gimme some more of those dumplings, with some moc chau to wash it down! Yum!
@@shinyeee1709 There's plenty of things considered illegal in the US that still happen, especially culturally, like female circumcision. When you have the cultural and language barrier to hide behind it makes it easier for these things to still happen.
Although I am Vietnamese and I know about this old tradition and other contents relating to Vietnamese culture, I really enjoy watching this kind of video in English and, moreover, they are created by chị Vân😅❤❤
Beautiful H'Mong dress 😍, lucky Pho didn't get kidnapped in the ❤️ market place, probably because Go Pro 11 was videoing the two guys who approached her. That was lucky for all of Pho's besotted subscribers 💕.
Van you make the cutest little bride kidnapee. I would steal you away and never bring you back. You look like a little doll. I really do want to come visit there very soon and there isn't much keeping me away.
We built Las Vegas so everybody can go there to elope.... its kind of the custom here in the U.S.... Beautiful video... you've found your calling... :)
This bride stealing thing is almost the same as in Romania(East Europe). Bride is stolen here during the wedding(and she comes back of course). But the tradition was abit different before(more similar to Vietnam it seems).
I do have a suggestion for you. Your subtitles are too long. If you try to watch some foreign films that have subtitles, they usually make it short enough so the viewers have enough time to read.
Wow 137K subscribers already, imagine what a great vlog can boost your popularity...you are better off taking off from Mộc châu otherwise beware of getting kidnapping by your admirers, BTW, look behind you my Dear!😝
It didn't seem like the people you talked to wanted to defend bride stealing. Maybe because it's been in the news? Or because the government doesn't like it? Anyway, very interesting video!
@@WhatThePho Nice. Trust me we all go through droughts in our lives. Luck is created by the choices we make and endure the good ones n also the bad ones cause we will always be tested. So chin up n god bless always.
Ma'am, I would have picked you up and ran harder than a black Friday, laughing wildly to my car! Such an incredible tradition and very interesting. Of course, definitely terrible to hear folks taking "back" to the old ways to the point of human trafficking. Boys, no means no!
I watched a documentary about their tribe. That documentary stated that it's not actually kidnapping. The girl resist to show how much they don't want to leave the family.
Dear Van, You are looking very colourful and very special to wearing this colourful costume. I think, if any young man select you as his life partner, what you will do at that time?
Good research and clarification on the tradition of bride kidnapping. It has always been falsely misunderstood by outsiders as an outright kidnapping when in fact it is more consensual and merely an act to gain face and value as a prized bride 👍 More often than not the groom and bride to be have known each other for years and are in fact love birds. In most cases they have even decided and agreed upon the day and time of the fateful event. In same cases though rare a girl may be bride kidnapped with little or no knowledge of the event mostly because she never intended or agreed to be married to the said groom (guy) or hardly knows him. Additionally this is one way the potential groom (guy) can acquire a wife of whom he does not know have little contact with or simply is just in love with. That said it is not an automatic marriage as her refusal and/or during and at the wedding negotiation he can just simply be turned down at which point he can potentially be fined thus losing face. This does and can happen depending on the couple's acquaintances and the overall negotiation by the elders. This practice is no longer observed in the West due to adherence of laws and a more assimilated lifestyle and at minimal in SE Asia. The Ha-mung pronunciation is always cringy 😵 Almost as cringy as the Mung one 😬 Fun fact concluded by various researchers found that the 'Love Market' originated as an opportunistic economic ploy orchestrated by the local authorities to exploit the general populous.
Good day to you, Van. This video is so interesting, never before been told by anyone that there is bride kidnapping practice in Hmong culture. Though this practise is no longer practical, it's nice to see the Hmong people are a very closely knit community, thus this will enable them to preserve most of their traditions,. You did well to do a lot of research for facts. Keep it up.
I wonder how things would turn out if a foreigner falls in love there and goes for a bride kidnapping, assuming that the guy is seriously in love would it still pass or it would be risky?😅
I really enjoyed this video and loved the part near the end when you were speaking with the older gentleman and his modern perspective on the love market. Thanks so much for sharing your channel on TH-cam.
Hi Van, I really appreciated the more educated take on the Hmong traditions. My partner is a Vietnamese Hmong from the north, and I am closely engaged with many people from the northern Hmong communities, who have in the past received a lot of negative judgment from the Kinh people. They can often be looked at as less due to their perceived outdated backward ways and rougher lifestyle, but there's obviously a lot more to their culture, so it's nice that you touched on this a little in your video. You filmed it very respectfully, which was great to see.
Hi Van, It's a very interesting video. I learned a lot about Hmong culture and Vietnam. Ty.
9:58 Thank you for the video I learned so much about Hmong culture. I have a Vietnamese coworker. She's told me a little about this but i've learned so much more from your video.
Amazing video by Ms. Van Vu. As usual always educational and opens our eyes to different cultures.
Thank you so much!
Hi Van Vu..., "Love Market" "Want to get married ?" Only kidding... * As I learn new cultures in foreign countries..., this one... caught me by surprise ! * Van Vu ..., you are bright, intelligent, and attractive... Living in Vietnam and on a ( working cattle ranch ) in America..., would undoubtedly be different... * Although..., when I pass away..., you would be..., one very ( rich ) and a beautiful young lady in Vietnam and or the United States... * Excellent video and very informative, and thank you for sharing the video... I do ( love ) your Vietnamese culture and traditions, and your parents... * "Yes..., you are bright, intelligent and attractive... Mike in Montana :)
Your videos are amazing, I'm happy to learn so much about Vietnamese culture. I'm definitely gonna have to visit because your videos, but without asking to bride kidnap anyone because that'd be awkward.
There is a documentary about similar tradition in Central Asian countries. Didn't knew it is also followed in VN. Informative video. Thanks.
Great video Van Vu!!! I appreciate you delving into a seemingly outdated practice to get to the roots of the tradition! Also, you look so beautiful in those Hmong clothes! 😍
Ty for covering traditional Vietnamese instruments. Please cover more traditional Vietnamese music!
A great adventure video, remembering my time in the Sapa region and the border with China.
The beautiful indigenous people are very shy and uncomfortable with their pictures being taken. I love that place and I could live out my life there.
Thank you for sharing your pictures.
WOW, learned something new again here. Thank you. Mind boggling. You look great in those traditional clothes. I had to laugh when you told that man you're from Philippines. When I hear about Asia, I always think first of China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
In the future, please pronounce H'Mong as Mong (H is silent). As a Hmong person from the US, I also agree that this "tradition" needs to stop. This "tradition" is unacceptable in the US and should be treated the same in any other countries. On another note, you look beautiful in Hmong clothes. Keep up the great videos!
Thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate it!!
@@WhatThePho I realize you only call them Ho Mong in English, in Vietnamese, you still call them Mong.
@@WhatThePho 111
Very colorful and rich culture. Beautiful video.
Hi van. Im your fan..... from the Philippunes.. :-), i live and work now here in Da Nang.
This is very interesting. This is why I turn into your channel, because it is the best.
This was interesting. I learned something new. Yes show more of this please.
Van looks gorgeous in ethnic dress, I hope she doesn't get swarmed. Gruff Clint Eastwood couldn't resist H'mong cuisine, he said it was better than beef jerky. Gran Torino may be the best film he's ever directed.
A street gang attempt to recruit Clint's neighbour's kid into their ranks. A fight breaks out and Clint show up with his shotgun and tells the street gang to get off his lawn. After that his neighbourhood treats him like a diety: th-cam.com/video/s4MLZ4WsXc4/w-d-xo.html
Love watching videos like these. I learned a lot and I am very interested to interact with these locals once I visit Vietnam. If you can do more videos like these would be great if you can go to the Northern areas where their village is thanks and keep doing what you’re doing. By the way you look great in that Hmong attite and I laugh when you mentioned my country Philippines 😂.
It is good to see you posting content again.
Great VDO my wife and I have vacationed in far north most enjoyable
I am hmong American thanks for your videos sharing to the global community
Hi Beautiful, long time no see, nice to see you again, thanks for sharing the video.
Awesome video love your content!
I remember we also got this tradition somewhere in China for a particular ethnics. I'm surprised by the "sold to China" scenario. If it's true, I feel very sorry for that. I'm Chinese and I met two excellent Vietnamese students here in Shanghai. They are from decent family and got scholarship, richer than me.. That's my only impression to Vietnamese.
Really! A đi Mộc Châu mà a ko thấy cái chợ này haha. Anyway, nice video Van!
New culture. New haircut. New style of video. Gotta love it!
hi my gitl friend loves the dress you wore.she always gets me to ware clothing that locals ware too .we are travelling north vietnam in october and would like to know where the stall was you buy it from so she can buy one.and if there are other places that she can dress up could you let me know so i can add them to our list of things to do .we go hanoi ca ca bay sapa and Bac ha markets we have 2 weeks to fill
Vân càng ngày càng đẹp! chúc kênh của em phát triển.
Love it, Van looks pretty in Hmong outfit ... to get out of poverty they should graduated from college, get a good paying job then think about family ... normal people we still have 60+ years after college to go so family should not be rush ...
haha this was a funny video, especially the part where the guys tried to "kidnap" you
Thanks for sharing!
Van you look absolutely stunning in that Hmong tradition dress. I would love to go here and see if anyone wants to kidnap me cause my dad thinks I'm too western and no one from Vietnam would want me 🥺
Many of the Hmong live here in NC. Van in Traditional clothes , nice. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks for watching!
Hi Van, you look adorable in that traditional dress.
Hi, I can spend more time to see all activities in Moc Chau, 30 or 45 minutes is great. Hope you do it in next video...
Good video, very informative. I think I missed a couple of Videos before this one. I'll have to catch up.
Love to see your new videos
Woww this video 📹 was very interesting and incredible!!Congrats 🎊!
I feel in Vietnam 🇻🇳 I learn a different thing every day! Right now I start to read a book 📙 about the Vietnam' history and culture.
The last weekend we went by motorbike 🛵 to Ninh Binh, oh my God 😀, it's a beautiful and lovely place with a lot of history!
Interesting. I live in Fresno, California, home to one of the largest Hmong populations in the United States. Bride kidnapping isn't a thing here, as far as I know, but I'm on the outside looking in, so to speak. Their New Year's celebrations last a week and the food is great. Gimme some more of those dumplings, with some moc chau to wash it down! Yum!
Of course it’s not a thing here in the US. That’s considered abducting and are grounds for imprisonment.
@@shinyeee1709 There's plenty of things considered illegal in the US that still happen, especially culturally, like female circumcision. When you have the cultural and language barrier to hide behind it makes it easier for these things to still happen.
Hi how are you doing great job i like the channel.
Although I am Vietnamese and I know about this old tradition and other contents relating to Vietnamese culture, I really enjoy watching this kind of video in English and, moreover, they are created by chị Vân😅❤❤
Van Thank You for sharing this interesting video. You look gorgeous in the ethnic dress👍🏻
My pleasure. Thanks for your support!
@@WhatThePho It’s my pleasure.
Very interesting
hi ms. Van long time since your last videos .
Beautiful H'Mong dress 😍, lucky Pho didn't get kidnapped in the ❤️ market place, probably because Go Pro 11 was videoing the two guys who approached her.
That was lucky for all of Pho's besotted subscribers 💕.
Thank you c
Van you make the cutest little bride kidnapee. I would steal you away and never bring you back. You look like a little doll. I really do want to come visit there very soon and there isn't much keeping me away.
We built Las Vegas so everybody can go there to elope.... its kind of the custom here in the U.S.... Beautiful video... you've found your calling... :)
I have learned a lot from your videos
📸🙋🙋Hello van awesome video🙋🙋📸❤️❤️Enjoy your weekend❤️❤️👍😇😇👍😇Keep safe😇😇
I have that insurance for my upcoming trip. Happy to see new video
Amazing, thanks 👍
Amazing video, you look beautiful in that Hmong traditional dress, did any Hmong men tried to kidnap you during the making of this video? lolz.
This bride stealing thing is almost the same as in Romania(East Europe). Bride is stolen here during the wedding(and she comes back of course). But the tradition was abit different before(more similar to Vietnam it seems).
Vietnam culture is so interesting and peaceful. I hope to meet you again in future
I do have a suggestion for you. Your subtitles are too long. If you try to watch some foreign films that have subtitles, they usually make it short enough so the viewers have enough time to read.
" Love market "vlog is very nice... Something different... Thanks
...from james mascarehnas, India
Great video, very interesting! What is that purple xoi called at 4.32?
Xôi nếp cẩm maybe
Great story and I am so happy that you were not kidnapped by anyone :)
Wow 137K subscribers already, imagine what a great vlog can boost your popularity...you are better off taking off from Mộc châu otherwise beware of getting kidnapping by your admirers, BTW, look behind you my Dear!😝
Thank you!!
Very interesting video
Beautiful view people nice Place Amazing Vedio ❤👍
It didn't seem like the people you talked to wanted to defend bride stealing. Maybe because it's been in the news? Or because the government doesn't like it? Anyway, very interesting video!
How is the alter coming along? I hope the fortunes has turned.
Haha it’s saving my life now 😅
@@WhatThePho Nice. Trust me we all go through droughts in our lives. Luck is created by the choices we make and endure the good ones n also the bad ones cause we will always be tested. So chin up n god bless always.
Awesome video 🔥🔥
Hi..
Iam last month in veitnaam hanoi
Very good experience we all friend
Love ho chi minh city
You were almost kidnapped, I think the camera saved you.
By the way the color is so bright and beautiful!!! Every girl regardless look like a flower..
He was just joking. He did keep distance and not touch her.
Nice sharing! 👍
Thanks ^^
Ma'am, I would have picked you up and ran harder than a black Friday, laughing wildly to my car! Such an incredible tradition and very interesting. Of course, definitely terrible to hear folks taking "back" to the old ways to the point of human trafficking. Boys, no means no!
Tóc rất đẹp và cá tính 👍👍👍
Good morning Van, you look so beautiful
Good morning. Have a great weekend!
What do you mean? You said the safety wing is 42 dollars per Month, then you said if you travel 5 or more days, you'll pay a lot less?
Hey Van, please link me to your video about your VPN? I would like to credit you. Thanks!
i can tell you realllllly wanted a good interesting answer when you were like "where did you meet?" and they were like "oh we met on facebook" LOL
I watched a documentary about their tribe. That documentary stated that it's not actually kidnapping. The girl resist to show how much they don't want to leave the family.
I love the simplicity of your culture.I think it would be better if we just respect are old tradition .Any were we are
So true!!
Just making sure. Isn't the word hmong pronounced with the silent h? Here in america i hear people say it with the silent h.
Dear Van, You are looking very colourful and very special to wearing this colourful costume. I think, if any young man select you as his life partner, what you will do at that time?
She is so pretty
Nice video
Has she always had sponsors in her videos? I don't think I recall seeing any in earlier videos
Love your videos ❤️❤️
it also happens in the southernmost of the Philippines.
Maybe I'm just biased because I listen to English all day at work, but you sound cuter when you interview people in Vietnamese.
Its funny that you told them that you are a Filipino. Thanks for having it in your subconcious. You would pass for a Filipino.
I heard you said civilized is Wen Ming in Vietnamese, same as Chinese.
Take a moment to see how your captioned words are displayed ❤
Great💐
Video hay hơn em tưởng tượng nhiều luôn á 👍👍
How long you've been abroad Van? It sounds like you're not Having a vietnamese accent!
Whoa, got a lot of hair cut off! Nice cut, but I will miss your long hair...LOL :).
Oh I love to wear that dress
why not say moc chau?
Em mặc bộ này Đẹp quá em ơi ! Dễ thương quá à !!!
Good research and clarification on the tradition of bride kidnapping. It has always been falsely misunderstood by outsiders as an outright kidnapping when in fact it is more consensual and merely an act to gain face and value as a prized bride 👍
More often than not the groom and bride to be have known each other for years and are in fact love birds. In most cases they have even decided and agreed upon the day and time of the fateful event. In same cases though rare a girl may be bride kidnapped with little or no knowledge of the event mostly because she never intended or agreed to be married to the said groom (guy) or hardly knows him. Additionally this is one way the potential groom (guy) can acquire a wife of whom he does not know have little contact with or simply is just in love with. That said it is not an automatic marriage as her refusal and/or during and at the wedding negotiation he can just simply be turned down at which point he can potentially be fined thus losing face. This does and can happen depending on the couple's acquaintances and the overall negotiation by the elders.
This practice is no longer observed in the West due to adherence of laws and a more assimilated lifestyle and at minimal in SE Asia.
The Ha-mung pronunciation is always cringy 😵 Almost as cringy as the Mung one 😬
Fun fact concluded by various researchers found that the 'Love Market' originated as an opportunistic economic ploy orchestrated by the local authorities to exploit the general populous.
So cool! They should implement bride kidnapping festivals in the Western countries.
love from oman
Good day to you, Van.
This video is so interesting, never before been told by anyone that there is bride kidnapping practice in Hmong culture. Though this practise is no longer practical, it's nice to see the Hmong people are a very closely knit community, thus this will enable them to preserve most of their traditions,.
You did well to do a lot of research for facts. Keep it up.
Its spelled Hmong but the H is silent. (H)Mong not Ha-Mong
Like you in our Hmong clothing.....
I wonder how things would turn out if a foreigner falls in love there and goes for a bride kidnapping, assuming that the guy is seriously in love would it still pass or it would be risky?😅