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Summary: Hmong Means Free
Review: I had to read this book for a history course. It was interesting at the beginning, until I see the picture of my Hmong friends. The author is pretty bias in some part of her writting. There are no evidences to support her term of Hmong means free. We are not free people we fought for our freedom just like any other less dominance race. You can not base an accurate study of the Hmong Culture based on interviews with Hmong peers and students. Though I do find the quote of other authors pretty well worded. Although the Hmong did fight the Han-Chinese to reclaim their land, they never succeeded. Many Hmong philosophers were killed and written history were burned and destroyed by the Han- Chinese. There are no accurate documentation of Hmong history. All I have to say is, if a book is written about the Hmong, then I think its a new culture and race being created.
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Summary: Hmong Means Free
Review: I had to read this book for a history course. It was interesting at the beginning, until I see the picture of my Hmong friends. The author is pretty bias in some part of her writting. There are no evidences to support her term of Hmong means free. We are not free people we fought for our freedom just like any other less dominance race. You can not base an accurate study of the Hmong Culture based on interviews with Hmong peers and students. Though I do find the quote of other authors pretty well worded. Although the Hmong did fight the Han-Chinese to reclaim their land, they never succeeded. Many Hmong philosophers were killed and written history were burned and destroyed by the Han- Chinese. There are no accurate documentation of Hmong history. All I have to say is, if a book is written about the Hmong, then I think its a new culture and race being created.
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Summary: To the not so cool dude. Get a life!
Review: I have not read this book personally, but the reviews I have read seemed like some of you are a little ticked off. It doesn't matter what "Hmong" really means to you, it's what it means to the author. But all of a sudden, some of you have become experts in the Hmong culture and language. Well send me your email address and I will personally send you a diploma, a B.S. in Hmong culture and language.
Now for the jerk that wrote the last review- The Hmong have put up with all kinds of stereotyping, but to say that they are inferior by looking at the way they live is really a slap in the face. I could say the same thing about the Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Chinese, or any other Asian groups in this country but I don't. What a person becomes is really up to that individual, so for you to pass judgement on others, especially a group of people, based on your narrow minded pea brain, I nominate you for the "Jerk of the Year" award.
Go get a life and stop ruining mine!
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Summary: Hmong means free
Review: I just want to say something about the two words Hmong and Meo because many people seem to misunderstand. "Hmong" is what the Hmong called themselves long ago during Fishing & Gathering, agrarian, and horticulture civilization. On the other hand, "Meo" is what the Chinese named the Hmong due to prejudice and discrimination result from war: Chinese battled with the Hmong during pre-industrial society in the late 1700s. Tou B. YAng
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Summary: Cried and laughed all at once.
Review: I work in the healthcare field and have seen quite a few young (teenage +) Hmong Americans struggling with their sense of value. In particular, a young girl who had been "Americanized" AKA taken from her family when she was young because of supposed abuse - a common practice not that long ago. She was depressed, living with a loving but very white family in which she felt inferior. Asian gang activities in our area made her feel embarrassed. This book put a spark back in her eyes. I found it wonderful and would highly recommend it.
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Summary: Helping young Hmong Americans find and identity...
Review: I work in the healthcare field and have seen quite a few young (teenage +) Hmong Americans struggling with their sense of value. In particular, a young girl who had been "Americanized" AKA taken from her family when she was young because of supposed abuse - a common practice not that long ago. She was depressed, living with a loving but very white family in which she felt inferior. Asian gang activities in our area made her feel embarrassed. This book put a spark back in her eyes. I found it wonderful and would highly recommend it.
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Summary: Tragic Mountain
Review: I would like to take this opportunity to thank you so much for all author or editor to do a research on Hmong. We have strugle and fight for freedom for many many years start from China to Laos, and now USA. I have a chance to came to America as Hmong. I feel so lucky to be in USA and have a chance to get higher education. In my personal opinion, since I was born in Laos my parent told mthat we are Hmong and we are human, we a people. But the majority Lao and government call us Meo and neve willing to fix it and call us the way we want. To me the Meo never accept in the Hmong people but we must respect the majority rule, and because we are the monority. Today, we Hmong are proud to our leader Gen. Vang Pao allie with the US and bring the Hmong to America. Do you know what happen? Now, we got want we want, we can we that we are Hmong. I agree with Chen define "Hmong Mean Free" Hmong mean people and mean Human being and also in US we are Free. No one call us Meo, or Miao no more. I amso proud and hope it last and forever that Hmong mean people, Human, and Free. Thank you again for all author for your hard work on our Hmong People. Sincerely, Peter Thao, MS
Communication Technolgy UW-STOUT
Wisconsin
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Summary: Hmong means free is very sidesplitting.
Review: My deepest apology if my comment is too harsh. I'm a Laotian-American and still loves my country and its more than 138 ethnic groups. Hmong does not mean "free" and there's not a single evidence to support it. We don't even know what "Hmong" is in the first place. The whole content seems too general and seems to guess on the information. I don't know what author's ethnic is, but if the author is Hmong then this is just a political slap on the face of the Laotians and the Hmongs as well. Even the title is already a turn off. Thank you.
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Summary: Cried and laughed all at once.
Review: The author's intro was informative but lacks passion (some day, a Hmong author may be able to do a more passionate job on our plight). The narratives were honest and sincere. There was no "sugar-coating"--I know! The narratives had a single common denominator: the sufferings of the human condition. Throughout the narration, I cried and laughed all at once. I cried: all the sufferings. I laughed: when one of the narratives failed the drivers' written test (in California) the first time because after she took the test, she didn't even realized it was in Spanish until her husband told her--she did not know Spanish. The book gave me a sense of my history in a personal and down-to-earth way. The book is an excellent reference.
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Summary: Clarification
Review: The stories in this book were true story for the Hmong. If you didn't know who are Hmong and where they came from. You better read this book. It is every a good book. After you read this book, you also get information from Hmong culture. The book talked about Hmong history from China, joined with CIA when the Vietnam War, how hard their lives and also how hard they had moved from country to country. The book also included story by each person. After I read the stories in this book, I felt very interesting and enjoying with. Hmong Means Free, because Hmong was a group that didn't like to live by law control. For me, I understand that Hmong had joined the law when general Vang Pao become a Hmong leader. He was the first one that forced the Hmong to join with the law and had education with other foreign people.
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