{"product_id":"100-questions-and-answers-about-hmong-americans-secret-no-more-paperback","title":"100 Questions and Answers About Hmong Americans: Secret No More - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichigan State School of Journalism\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulie Xiong\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eGia Vang\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 50 years since the CIA's secret war against Communists in Vietnam ended, Hmong Americans have built new lives in a country they fought for, even though they did not belong to it. When the United States ended its military involvement in Southeast Asia in 1975, it left its secret allies defenseless among enemies in a hostile land. Most of their fighting had occurred in Laos, and evacuees were whisked away in unmarked military planes. Thousands of civilians crossed the dangerous Mekong River to shelter in refugee camps in Thailand. Neither the Hmong people nor their U.S. hosts were prepared for the change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUprooted from a region where they had no country of their own and many new enemies, Hmong people faced danger, disruption and dislocation. Some say that, because they always lived in China and other countries but never one of their own, Hmong people carry the only homeland they have on their backs. Unless they can find a sense of homeland in the United States, they can never have what so many take for granted. That's what they have been working for. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHmong people were scattered to several countries, and most came to the United States, especially Minnesota, California, Wisconsin and Michigan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"100 Questions and Answers About Hmong Americans: Secret No More\" was written to answer the most basic questions about Hmong people to open up avenues for deeper conversations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditionally a nomadic people, they lived by agriculture and arrived with very little English, a lack of formal schooling, occupational training or written language and little savings. Their hurried dislocation and life in refugee camps severed their most important bonds. Resettlement separated them from their spiritual and clan leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian churches helped Hmong people resettle and, in some cases, this led to conversions and hybrid practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fewer than 50 years, Hmong Americans are filling seats in college classrooms and state legislatures, serving in health care, owning businesses, teaching and creating art. Citizenship and voting rates are higher than they are for most other immigrants, even though Hmong people come from places where they were discouraged from having any civic involvement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journey has been challenging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn need of hospitality and help, they sometimes encountered suspicion and stereotypes from their new neighbors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelp with the trauma of war, flight and dislocation is seldom available in culturally appropriate ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir soldiers, paid by the United States to fight, have few veteran benefits other than burial rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Model Minority Myth that Asian people are just naturally successful was cruelly unkind to people with so little time to conquer their disadvantages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the challenges has been to make a new way in the United States while maintaining family and spiritual traditions and cultural ways with music, dress embroidered art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hope is that they are accepted as fully American and totally Hmong as they decide to define that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere did the Hmong originate?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre Hmong people Chinese?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre Hmong and Mongolian related? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we say Hmong? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does Hmoob mean? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was the Secret War?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did the Hmong agree to fight for the CIA?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow many Hmong died in the war? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did they get out of Laos? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre Hmong soldiers considered U.S. veterans?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre more Hmong coming to the United States? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are traditional Hmong beliefs? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is string tying?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt what age do Hmong people marry? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre marriages arranged?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is Hmong embroidery? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs Hmong food spicy? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo Hmong people vote as a bloc? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What is the model minority myth?\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978288824621,"sku":"9781641801928","price":23.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/d7QPGLWgNb9781641801928.webp?v=1775801472","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/100-questions-and-answers-about-hmong-americans-secret-no-more-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}