April 2012
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WatchWhat is SASC Anthology?
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envivix:
The Vietnamese woman in my family always criticize and look down on other Vietnamese woman who: get tattooed eyebrows, get any sort of plastic surgery and/or is materialistic… Yet the Vietnamese woman in my family are guilty of AT LEAST 1 of the “crimes” listed above.
If you can’t make it an “exception” for other people, it should not be an exception for you. You are no better than...
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Gotta love accents...
stevenrbailey:
ma - ghost
má - mom
mà - but
mả - tomb
mã - horse
mạ - rice seedling
… gotta love Vietnamese.
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So my buddy is Mien and I'm Hmong...
Buddy: what is the base religion for hmong people?
Me: The base religion? What do you mean?
Buddy: like the religion hmong people had before immigrating. cause when some people came to america, they became like... christian and stuff
Me: Shamanism?
(I used to be a Catholic actually, just for info for others.)
Me: I'm pretty sure all hill tribes were originally Shamanism.
Me: .....we should have a Shaman King Tournament...
Buddy: loool
Me: Sorry, it was just a random thought...
I don't know what came over me when that thought went through my head...
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Southeast Asian Restoring Community Hope of Rhode...
thekofox:
I’ve attended the first 3 sessions for SEARCH (if you count the retreat a session). The retreat was very informative. There were questions that were asked that help the women in the room reflect on our own roots a little better.
What do we know about Southeast Asian history?
Khmer Rouge
The Hmong People
Secret War on Laos
Vietnam War
The first slide that was presented on the...
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PTSD from Cambodia's killing fields affects kids... →
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San Jose police identify (Vietnamese) victims in...
baohouse:
San Jose police identify (Vietnamese) victims in murder-suicide
Really sad.
(AP and KTVU.com) SAN JOSE, Calif. — Authorities have released the identities of two people who died in an apparent murder-suicide at a busy San Jose strip mall. San Jose police say 32-year-old Trung Quoc Nguyen shot 39-year-old Emanuel Tran Phoung Nguyen in the head at 9:30 a.m. Saturday before shooting...
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Deportation Video Wins White House Contest, But...
In November 2011, the White House launched the “What’s Your Story” video challenge,asking the AAPI community to submit videos about the “issues that matter the most” to them. The Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders office received over 200 submissions and narrowed it down to 10 videos the public could vote on. But the video with the most votes (by a landslide) was ignored in the...
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Indonesia issues tsunami warning after...
Tremors could be felt all across south-east Asia, some lasting for as long as five minutes, with reports on Twitter describing scenes of employees rushing out of office buildings to families looking for safety in cities as far-reaching as Rangoon, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore.
via The Guardian
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Dreaming.
oohhsunshine:
Often I’ve heard people say that the Hmong culture will die out because the new Hmong generation is straying.
Can you blame us though? You bring us into a whole new different world while at home, it’s another. No one is to blame, really. It’s just the pitfall of being of a different culture while living in another. This isn’t about the Hmong culture dying out (another post about...
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What is Hmong?
itsmattfashomybrotha:
Hmong is a sub-ethnic group that originated in Tibet. We were a nomadic people who eventually settled in China. After rising political power, China felt that it’d be best to make the Hmong one with China, suppressing everything about us. Shamanism, our language and even our own culture. We resisted with force, eventually causing China to banish us into the mountains...
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"I'm Laos"
sincerelyanm:
No, you are not the country, you are LAO.
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To wait 15 years for deportation is devastating
On March 26, U.S. immigration officials showed up at my company and escorted a long time employee, Sua Kuangvanh, out of the building “to clear up some paperwork.” They then took him to the Polk County Jail where he is being held pending deportation back to Laos, his native country. In 1996, over 15 years ago, Kuangvanh was convicted of a drug-related crime in Storm Lake. At the time of...
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Been Waiting for Hmong Queerness Herstory.
lindahawj:
Watching If These Walls Could Talk 2 with a cigar and a drank with Jenny. We’ve come a long way; Hmong Queer womyn.
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Watchbadassh0neybadger:
The Cambodian Arts- Keep it alive.
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Literary Hit List
livelikediene:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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I can't teach you how to be Hmong, but I can tell...
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