Essay About Hmong Culture

New lessons were introduced, which means we have to tackle with new challenges in the following days. In this week, I have read the article “Growing up Hmong in Laos and America: Two Generations of Women through My Eyes” written by Pa Xiong Gonzalo, who came to the United States as refugee in the past. She is a Hmong, an ethnic group from the Asian countries. This article is about her experiences on how her life was when she first came to the United States to the success of graduating from an U.S university. During that period, there were a few cultural and tradition issues happened in her family. I did not know Hmong group before as they only constituted a small amount of population in the Asian countries. Their stories seem interesting to me as I think that some of their tradition are quite similar to the Malay’s tradition in Malaysia. According to Gonzalo, Hmong people are only allowed to married with another Hmong from different clan, which means they have to maintain the blood kinship within their ethnic group. In my opinion, I think that the marriage tradition in Hmong group is
In the viewpoints of both ethnic group, female is only regarded as wife, who must be held responsible for giving birth and taking care of the family in a household. As a result, most young girls marry in their teenage years and do not continue with higher education. Some of them do not even think of further enriching their knowledge because the tradition is firmly embedded in their life. Fortunately, their perspectives have changed in response the current stage of globalization. More and more Hmong and Malay females are pursuing higher education and exploring in the education world. If no one dare to break the tradition, I think that they will still follow the tradition and will be left behind the modern ways of