Hmong Culture Vs American Culture

Culture shapes our character, personality, and behavior. The culture influence our concept of right and wrong, define what is appropriate and acceptable, and forge our moral, values, traditions, and beliefs. Imigration impacts the individual behavior based on the effect of culture in our behavior. When a person imigrate, the individual does not only expose itself to a different environment but to a different culture with its own set of rules and values. This change provoke an conflict caused by the adaptation process where the individual only accepts the traditions and beliefs of the new culture that are defined as acceptable within the judgement derived from the old culture.
The dual perspective theory explain the differences betweenn the Hmong and the American culture. The Lee family along with other Hmong familiies were harshly judged by the MCMC staff hospital regarding their opinion of the use of medicine to treat illness due to they did not focus on the illness itself but the recovery or healing of the soul. The Hmong culture define an illlness as the lost or harm of the soul perpetrated by a malicious spirit called a dab. Nonetheless, the American society define an illness from a biological and genetic perspective.
Thie Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down book presents the collision and immersion of the two cultures throughout the development of Lia’s illness. When analyzing the Lee socialization process, we think of their consistent, circular, and perpetuating process. The Hmong are a culture that give great meaning to family for which children play a major role in their parents life giving greatly importance to take good care of them. Foua and Nao Kao took great care of Lia and were always present independently of how long did she stay at the hospital or how difficult was to take care of her. Foua spent a great time grooming Lia and making sure that she was always