[Date] Extra Credit Film: The Hmong in America Film: Gran Torino The Hmong cultural group is always targeted as the racial discrimination especially by the white people of the America. The same concept is shown in the film Gran Torino where the white American Walt who is actually an overt racism personality makes fun of the people that are belonging to other race and his main focus is always his neighborhood Hmong family. The family shown in the film that belong to Hmong culture are shown as very scared
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found next to a 2‚500- to 2‚800-year-old mummified shaman in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Cannabis is also known to have been used by the ancient Hindus of India and Nepal thousands of years ago. The herb was called ganjika in Sanskrit (ganja in modern Indo-Aryan languages). Cannabis was also known to the ancient Assyrians‚ who discovered it’s psychoactive properties through the Aryans. Using it in some religious ceremonies‚ they called it qunubu (meaning "way to produce
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Cindy Copeland The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Chapter 1 “Foua never thought to ask‚ since she speaks no English‚ and when she delivered Lia‚ no one present spoke Hmong.” (pg 6) I cannot imagine being somewhere where no one spoke the same language – let along receiving medical care and/or delivering a baby without anyone speaking the same language. That must have been not only a scary experience‚ but a lonely one too. To have no one there and no one there that spoke my language
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Tattoos and their Relationship to Polynesian Culture Denise Lutz Axia College of University of Phoenix “They print signs on people’s body and call this tattow”- James Cook (Losch‚ 2003). What might his first thoughts have been upon anchoring at one of the Polynesian islands‚ seeing natives covered in markings? What did the markings and designs mean? Could he have wondered what the significance was‚ who did this to them‚ and what was used to place those markings on them. Although tattoos were
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of culture‚ there was an abundance of traditional practices related to the Hmong community. The screenplay was written by Nick Schenk and the movie was filmed in July 2008 (Longwell‚ T). Gran Torino was directed and produced by Clint Eastwood‚ who also played the role of the main character known as Walt Kowalski. Walt was an American man and a Korean War veteran who resided in a neighborhood that became inhabited by Hmong families (Gran Torino‚ 2008). The relationship that Walt had with his own
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him and his son’s family that Walt struggles with. Walt also struggles with the Hmong people have recently immigrated into his neighborhood. Thao‚ Walt’s teenage Hmong neighbor caused some initial issues but in the end Walt developed a strong and respectful relationship with the entire family. These two unique worlds diffused together and demolished any stereotypes or misconceptions between the characters after the Hmong family demonstrates Salin’s four steps. Walt’s acceptance of the cultural and
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Paper What I will be covering in my paper is how communication was the biggest role in what happened to Lia. If Lia’s parents better understood the doctors it could have prevented a lot of things. But however‚ if the American Doctors knew about the Hmong people’s culture‚ language and the Lee’s thoughts on what was going on with Lia it also could have been prevented a lot. The Lee’s thought the reason why Lia was sick was because her sister slammed the door too loud and it caused her soul to leave
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reverting to your own cultural practices. This reluctant attitude similarly reflects the case study from Anne Fadiman’s book‚ The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down‚ regarding cultural distinctions between the Hmong and Americans in the United States. There is an infinite difference between the Hmong and American biomedical community as the cultural taboos‚ differing cultural views towards illnesses and weight are perceived differently‚ which provokes a higher potential for unsuccessful treatment and can
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didn’t know anything about the Hmong people before this lecture so it was interesting to learn about their history‚ problems‚ and culture. They are mostly from northern China‚ the Middle East (Iran‚ Iraq‚ and Syria) and Russia but they don’t have a country to call their own. The Hmong people possess many traits unique from the people they live amongst like having lighter skin‚ pale blue eyes‚ and narrower faces. The presentation was specifically to inform us of how the Hmong people came to the United
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her mother’s country of Laos‚ Lia would have been born by her mother squatting on the floor! They also used special created remedies to solve health issues without relying on hospitals or clinics. It was also interesting to read how important the Hmong people believed in sprits and how their life decisions where decided around the sprit actions. For example‚ they believed that male sprit’s held up their house roof‚ if the male’s placenta was buried near the central pillar of the house. Lia was even
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