April 2012
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 13th
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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
Apr 11th
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Apr 9th
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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...
Apr 9th
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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...
Apr 9th
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"I'm Laos"
sincerelyanm: No, you are not the country, you are LAO.
Apr 9th
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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...
Apr 9th
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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.
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Literary Hit List
livelikediene: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Apr 9th
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I can't teach you how to be Hmong, but I can tell...
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 5th
March 2012
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Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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i hate when...
xkishojox: i eat Pho & afterwords my hair smells like it from the aroma… >A<;’
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Love - Musiq Soulchild cover →
fckyeahcambodia: Help a sista out. ^_^ Not everyday you find out that a Cambodian person can sing, lol. My name’s Golden Touch. I’d appreciate if you guys would comment, like, or subscribe. <3 submitted by: goldenntouch —- check out this beautiful girl! <3 :)
Mar 25th
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