Thank you documenting our people. Our people have a rich and long history that our people cannot ever forget. Thank you for your interests in the Miao (Hmong/Hmu/Gho Xiong) culture. :)
@@gerloke914 if you're saying the Miaos are not hmongs, than how can most of us understand some of their words!?! Hmongs have migrated as far as South America. The accent and language has changed greatly from China, South East Asian countries, France, Australia, Canada, North America, South America. But if you pay close attention, you will hear the hmong language in the accents of Hmongs' around the world who speak the country's main language! Listen closely to the Miaos' when they speak, and you will hear perfect hmong in their chinese accent! Perfect hmong, as the language your grandparents speak, when they talk or sing poems.
So Hmong people in the US needs to stop thinking the word, "Miao" is derogatory. A whole Miao nation does not think so. The name may started as such but they claimed it back sooo....not sure why Hmong Americans are being assholes about telling others how to identify themselves.
Wow! Thank you thank you so much for recognizing my people! Your work IS A-MA-ZING! I LOVE every bit of your unique creation. Keep it up and God bless!
Asher Svidensky no not yet. Ill check it out. I'm Miao/Hmong-American. Never been to southern china before and your videos just makes me feel like I have visited it.
You should totally travel there - It's intersting in many ways :) Here is a link to my newest video from there >> www.svidensky.com/videos/the-old-silversmith
This photographer is unique. He goes out into the world and engage with people he is photographing. He goes to places other photographers wouldn't normally go to. He should work for National Geographics.
this is beautiful. i've come from a long line of descendants of the Miao. I've been trying to go back to my history and my roots. its been very hard to find the history as it lost like you mentioned here that as the Miao people migrate they adapt to new cultures and lose a little bit of what they came with.
@@gerloke914 who told you that? A miao person? They’re literally in poverty in china, instead of listening to what they have to say you should pay up and donate to them :)
@@mst3799 Aren't the Miao one of the most assimilated groups in China? And you're argument is they're poor so we shouldn't listen to them? Truth is these Miao people don't call themselves Mong and the Mong in China don't call them Mong. Their Hmu and although they are "Miao" they are different from us in Kev Cai hab yaam lus. One thing that are cultures share or a cognate in our languages shouldn't translate to us being one people. You should really read your name hun cause you need to stop playin thinking the Hmu are Mong.
friend,Asher Svidensky. your video of miao curture really wonderfully.I am not understand how do you like their costumes.if their costumes very pretty.or do you intrusty.really wonderfully.i am praise to you because you like they costumes too.!!prayer God blessing to you.!!
Yes Cody and Asher. As I have shared many times many moons ago, Miao in China is like Indian in America. All are Indian, but within it, there's individual tribe; likewise, Hmong is, but a tribe among the 10 plus millions Miao in China; i.e. Hmu, Ahmao, Qos Xyooj, etc...
Yes it's true! I also refer to that in the photography blog I wrote about my trip. Here is a link if you want to check it out >> www.svidensky.com/projects/searching-for-the-miao-goddess
@@AsherSvidensky Don't listen to him because this is a very ignorant thing to say. People who say Mong and Miao are the same have done no real research and are making assumptions. Miao does not mean Mong because not all Miao call themselves Mong. Miao people don't even call themselves Miao but by the name of their own ethnic group. Each ethnic group under Miao has their own cultural background. Qho Xong people don't have the same origin story as us, neither does the Gejia people. Hmu and Xong people don't practice the same things as us. Culturally we're different and linguistically we are too. All this and yet people still seem to think we're the same and for what? I don't know. And this mindset hinders our people so much. The Xong and Hmu, even some Mong people in China agree that we aren't the same and look where they're at. Miao people are among the most well off ethnicities in China with secure knowledge and preservation of their history and culture. While we Mong outside of China still thinks that the Miao are all one people and look where we are. Our culture is at the brink of fading away. Thinking this is harmful because you're investing thought and time into a culture that's not even yours; And because you're not investing time into your true culture, it's dying. Among the many issues we face as Mong americans this one is moderate but if we can't break this down then we won't survive. (The people in this video are Mongic and we do have similarities, but the couple similarities does not cloud the many differences. Which means we're not one people truly).
@@Onionoil467 Then where do you think we come from? What history and culture are we trying to preserve if we aren't even trying to understand our origins? Hmong people did not just magically appear in SEA and America.
Thank you my friend :) I actually went back to this area about a year ago - have you seen the new vlog? Here is a link if you are interested >> www.svidensky.com/videos/the-old-silversmith
Nomads and Migrating from central China? I am confused? Miao story of origin is bases in the Yellow river basin... I am Hmong, we are Miao... we have stories where we come from a cold area... but central china..
The Hmu people of the Ethnic collective Miao. What a wonderful video of their clothing. Hmu people are such a pretty ethnic group and I'm glad we're related. Thank you for sharing this video of our Mongic ethnic groups. Maybe one day you'll visit us Mong in China. There's many in Guizhou province, Yunnan, and a lot of other provinces. The Black Hmong (Hmoob Sau) are one of my favorite subgroups of Mong. They look like this th-cam.com/video/4xEJrMfe7g8/w-d-xo.html .
these imagings are great. thanks for sharing. you did a wonderful job for this. continue with your effort. -make connection with --www.hmongnationalties.org-- i usa or make connection with ( I AM HMONG) in facebook or fb - koomtxoohaivhmoobhaislus----
Vameng Chang. Actually, it is true. I would advise you to do your research and immerse yourself to learn about anothers' culture before you call it "bs". The characteristics/traits of blonde hair and blue eyes (even green eyes) is rare nowadays because of dominant traits such as brown eyes and dark hair. However, there are some people who still retain them.
I did genetic research and it's not true. Hmong show 0% Caucasian admixture and many populations also have blonde hair/blue eyes in Southeast Asia, Africa, Solomon show blonde hair, blue eyes but have 0% Caucasian admixture.
In this cosmic universe that is ever evolving, humans are only a blink of an eye. Hmong originating from the Middle East is only one of the four theories, not that I believe it. However, my auntie is full blooded Hmong but has blonde hair and green hazel eyes. So does all her kids.
I think this documentary was commissioned and produced by the CCP....it looks too touristic and fake to be the vision of a Western photographer seeing Guizhou for the first time. Most Hmong areas in the 3 southern provinces are dirt poor ...this looks like another tourist town for Han. There are a lot of these videos on YT since the world became aware of what was going on in Uighur areas.
Thank you documenting our people. Our people have a rich and long history that our people cannot ever forget. Thank you for your interests in the Miao (Hmong/Hmu/Gho Xiong) culture. :)
+HmongbDebQeut (HmoobTebChaws) @Cody Yang
Be ashamed of yourself! We are not Miao(indoctrinated)
@@gerloke914 ....*sigh*....your ugliness is showing.
@@gerloke914 if you're saying the Miaos are not hmongs, than how can most of us understand some of their words!?! Hmongs have migrated as far as South America. The accent and language has changed greatly from China, South East Asian countries, France, Australia, Canada, North America, South America. But if you pay close attention, you will hear the hmong language in the accents of Hmongs' around the world who speak the country's main language! Listen closely to the Miaos' when they speak, and you will hear perfect hmong in their chinese accent! Perfect hmong, as the language your grandparents speak, when they talk or sing poems.
@@gerloke914 our blood is the same. Not the name. Meo is what Laotian people used to oppress us hmong.
Thank you for sharing, Asher. Great job...
beautiful! thank yo for sharing this story! that silver smith is such a true artist!
These people and this culture needs preservation. It must be protected at all costs. Even from our modern societies.
protected from the CCP really
Yes, Asher, most people just needed a little inspiration to share. Thanks for capturing my ancestral spirit so eloquently, "the Goddess."
Thank you so much my friend!! Have you seen my last visit in the Miao a few months ago??
Where is it?
Right here >> www.svidensky.com/videos/the-old-silversmith
Beautifully captured and well told. Your work is truly inspiring.
Thank you so much my friend
This is breathtakingly beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Thank you my friend for commenting!!
Well done bro.
I LOVE THIS! 😍
You are a good photographer 😊
Keep it up 😃
Asher, thank you for taking the time and putting in work to share the Hmong people's history and culture. I've just subscribed! Happy day to you.
So Hmong people in the US needs to stop thinking the word, "Miao" is derogatory. A whole Miao nation does not think so. The name may started as such but they claimed it back sooo....not sure why Hmong Americans are being assholes about telling others how to identify themselves.
You can thank the General for coming up with the derogatory thinking. Maybe they'd all still be living in Laos.
Thank you for document the Miao story and shared. I love your style of documantation.
Nice photos and thanks for visiting our people in China.
beautiful! such a beautiful cultuture. the photos really came alive when he took it out in nature
Thanks mate!! I like this image a lot as well :)
Wow! Thank you thank you so much for recognizing my people! Your work IS A-MA-ZING! I LOVE every bit of your unique creation. Keep it up and God bless!
But they really aren't unless you call yourself Miao.
I absolutely love this!
Thanks you so much!
Absolutely beautiful and inspiring!
Thank you so much my Michelle!! Have you seen my 2nd visit there earlier this year??
Asher Svidensky no not yet. Ill check it out. I'm Miao/Hmong-American. Never been to southern china before and your videos just makes me feel like I have visited it.
You should totally travel there - It's intersting in many ways :)
Here is a link to my newest video from there >> www.svidensky.com/videos/the-old-silversmith
This photographer is unique. He goes out into the world and engage with people he is photographing. He goes to places other photographers wouldn't normally go to. He should work for National Geographics.
this is beautiful. i've come from a long line of descendants of the Miao. I've been trying to go back to my history and my roots. its been very hard to find the history as it lost like you mentioned here that as the Miao people migrate they adapt to new cultures and lose a little bit of what they came with.
Hmong/Miao is one of the tribe who created China.
No. Hmong people were destroyed by the Chinese to create modern day China.
@@gerloke914 its complicated bro... if you could free yourself from being bias, you'd be a legend
@@gerloke914 no a lot of our culture China took from us.
Great looking Hmong clothes...they still use Ox horns to ward off evil spirits to this day as they worship this animal. (the great Chi You)
Oh that's cool I didn't know about that - Thanks for the info!
Do you know that the Miao calls you stupid for telling yourself that you are them?
Chi You was a great noble emperor to the Hmong people and everyone around them. The enemy will never paint a good picture of you when you re gone.
@@gerloke914 who told you that? A miao person? They’re literally in poverty in china, instead of listening to what they have to say you should pay up and donate to them :)
@@mst3799 Aren't the Miao one of the most assimilated groups in China? And you're argument is they're poor so we shouldn't listen to them? Truth is these Miao people don't call themselves Mong and the Mong in China don't call them Mong. Their Hmu and although they are "Miao" they are different from us in Kev Cai hab yaam lus. One thing that are cultures share or a cognate in our languages shouldn't translate to us being one people. You should really read your name hun cause you need to stop playin thinking the Hmu are Mong.
Hi Asher Svidensky. I am just curious if you are a Polish tribesman or of Russian tribe?
Love the video
+Phooj Vaj Thanks!
Amazing..thanks for sharing..
beautiful pictures...yes yes ..I must go there....
Just a flight away ;)
first save some money...
Yep.. sadly it's a thing
Love your video thank you for shearing
friend,Asher Svidensky. your video of miao curture really wonderfully.I am not understand how do you like their costumes.if their costumes very pretty.or do you intrusty.really wonderfully.i am praise to you because you like they costumes too.!!prayer God blessing to you.!!
Wow great work!
Wow Amazing Similarly Garo Tribes 👍👍👍👏👏
You should've recorded his dad speaking.. I would love to hear them speak in their native tongue.
if u dont know yet. Hmong people are Miao. Miao is just a Chinese word for Hmong
+Cody Yang Thanks for the information!
Yes Cody and Asher. As I have shared many times many moons ago, Miao in China is like Indian in America. All are Indian, but within it, there's individual tribe; likewise, Hmong is, but a tribe among the 10 plus millions Miao in China; i.e. Hmu, Ahmao, Qos Xyooj, etc...
Yes it's true! I also refer to that in the photography blog I wrote about my trip. Here is a link if you want to check it out >> www.svidensky.com/projects/searching-for-the-miao-goddess
@@AsherSvidensky Don't listen to him because this is a very ignorant thing to say. People who say Mong and Miao are the same have done no real research and are making assumptions. Miao does not mean Mong because not all Miao call themselves Mong. Miao people don't even call themselves Miao but by the name of their own ethnic group. Each ethnic group under Miao has their own cultural background. Qho Xong people don't have the same origin story as us, neither does the Gejia people. Hmu and Xong people don't practice the same things as us. Culturally we're different and linguistically we are too. All this and yet people still seem to think we're the same and for what? I don't know. And this mindset hinders our people so much. The Xong and Hmu, even some Mong people in China agree that we aren't the same and look where they're at. Miao people are among the most well off ethnicities in China with secure knowledge and preservation of their history and culture. While we Mong outside of China still thinks that the Miao are all one people and look where we are. Our culture is at the brink of fading away. Thinking this is harmful because you're investing thought and time into a culture that's not even yours; And because you're not investing time into your true culture, it's dying. Among the many issues we face as Mong americans this one is moderate but if we can't break this down then we won't survive. (The people in this video are Mongic and we do have similarities, but the couple similarities does not cloud the many differences. Which means we're not one people truly).
@@Onionoil467 Then where do you think we come from? What history and culture are we trying to preserve if we aren't even trying to understand our origins? Hmong people did not just magically appear in SEA and America.
Very exciting...
Thanks!
Asher, FYI, we're not a "tribe." There are more of us than there are Swedes or Norwegians. We're just a Chinese minority group.
Inspiring!
Oh. Love my people in China.
Love it, like the way our people live of the land and simple life. Can life be these simple. Not here for sure.
Thank you my friend :) I actually went back to this area about a year ago - have you seen the new vlog? Here is a link if you are interested >> www.svidensky.com/videos/the-old-silversmith
Thank you for let us see our Hmong live in China.
They're like goddesses.
wow wow wow !!!
Nomads and Migrating from central China? I am confused? Miao story of origin is bases in the Yellow river basin... I am Hmong, we are Miao... we have stories where we come from a cold area... but central china..
Oh I am sorry...I though u said central asia...
I love your art! Inspire me to get back in to photography
Cool Hmong Village in China
My Vietnamese culture is Hill tribes I love silver
Indeed the 'goddess'
The Hmu people of the Ethnic collective Miao. What a wonderful video of their clothing. Hmu people are such a pretty ethnic group and I'm glad we're related. Thank you for sharing this video of our Mongic ethnic groups. Maybe one day you'll visit us Mong in China. There's many in Guizhou province, Yunnan, and a lot of other provinces. The Black Hmong (Hmoob Sau) are one of my favorite subgroups of Mong. They look like this th-cam.com/video/4xEJrMfe7g8/w-d-xo.html .
I do NOT know who is right or wrong but listening to their closed door language and clothing/food/tradition, I can tell they are Hmong or not.
At Awe... 👍👍
Kuv zoo siab tias kuv yog Hmoob!
Miao number one. Ok
Why "goddess"? It does not fit the truth of who the miao people really are.
Miao are unique people why they changed to be Hmong for no reason?
these imagings are great. thanks for sharing. you did a wonderful job for this. continue with your effort. -make connection with --www.hmongnationalties.org-- i usa or make connection with ( I AM HMONG) in facebook or fb - koomtxoohaivhmoobhaislus----
Ok who thinks hmong r blond hair blue people from the middle east still? Lol
Where did you get that idea from?
Asher Svidensky some Hmongs in the usa believe that bs lol. I guess it due to wanting to b Caucasian
Vameng Chang. Actually, it is true. I would advise you to do your research and immerse yourself to learn about anothers' culture before you call it "bs". The characteristics/traits of blonde hair and blue eyes (even green eyes) is rare nowadays because of dominant traits such as brown eyes and dark hair. However, there are some people who still retain them.
I did genetic research and it's not true. Hmong show 0% Caucasian admixture and many populations also have blonde hair/blue eyes in Southeast Asia, Africa, Solomon show blonde hair, blue eyes but have 0% Caucasian admixture.
In this cosmic universe that is ever evolving, humans are only a blink of an eye. Hmong originating from the Middle East is only one of the four theories, not that I believe it. However, my auntie is full blooded Hmong but has blonde hair and green hazel eyes. So does all her kids.
I think this documentary was commissioned and produced by the CCP....it looks too touristic and fake to be the vision of a Western photographer seeing Guizhou for the first time. Most Hmong areas in the 3 southern provinces are dirt poor ...this looks like another tourist town for Han. There are a lot of these videos on YT since the world became aware of what was going on in Uighur areas.
Thank you for sharing, Asher. Great job...
You are a good photographer 😊
Keep it up 😃