My Daughter’s Reaction to HMong- The Secret War
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Don't be ashamed of who you are...be PROUD 🙌🏼
My daughter expressed interest in learning more about our HMong-American history and events leading to our people immigrating to the United States. I encouraged her to watch 'The Secret War' and afterwards she was in tears. Her gratitude and appreciation for her grandparents, ancestors, HMong identity, and heritage...❤️🙌🏼🙏🏽
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Link to "The Secret War" on YouTUBE: • The Hmong and the Secr...
📷: Still shots from Valley PBS
I am 16 and learned about our history when I was 9. Before so, I was slowly letting go of my Hmong language and culture, quickly adapting into American culture. But when I learned about our history, not just during the secret war, but what happened to us in China. It made me open my eyes.
Our ancestors fought, fled, and died to keep our culture and language alive. They fought for freedom, so that their kids could keep living and pass down our traditions.
The Hmong people ran down to South East Asia because they wanted to reserve our way of life.
The amount of suffering and deaths our ancestors went through lit a fire within me.
Both my grandpas were soldiers, drafted when they were 11 to 13. My step Grandma had 11 siblings, but it withered down to 3 as they were hunted by the communist Laos party. Some of the most gruesome deaths being starvation, getting mauled by dogs, and getting gunned down. My mom had to sneak out from the refugee camps due to their abuse.
The more stories I was told, the more I began to feel bad for so easily letting go of my culture. Now, I’ve regained some of my fluency in the language. And I heavily embrace my identity as a Hmong person.
I feel saddened that my generation is slowly losing their touch with their culture. We don’t even have a country to go back to, to relearn our language and traditions. Even in Thailand and Laos, Hmong kids only know Thai and Lao.
I will continue to work hard to relearn all the Hmong words I have lost through out the year, and I hope that other kids my age will too.
Wow 😅😅😅😅❤❤❤❤
Educate the young so they understand our history and can be proud of our bravery and sacrifice! Good job dad!
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Be proud. Be brave. You have a great heart. ❤
Many have lost their loved ones during the war, sons and fathers, uncle's, many relatives..
My grandpa is Txiv Blia Ying, people some refer him as "Txiv Blia Ying" Vang, died in Thailand 1976
Good .