Hmong People,Their Life and Their Tradition
On arriving Eau Claire, I have heard people talking about "Hmong" People for many times. I took it for granted that they should be people from Mogolia. But I am wrong, totally wrong! Yesterday in Jasmine's class, I got to know, for the first time, that they are people whose ancestors fled from China! That is why many people told me that they are trading Asian grocery.
Don't stop there! After I learned the history, I took much sympathy on them. They fled from their home to Laos in the late 1800's, just because they wanted to keep their tradition, which is supposed to be people's right! They fled again from Laos to Thailand, just because they helped the enemy of the goverment. But in Thailand, they lived in misery. Where were their brothers and friends? Where was their God? Finally, they got the agreement to live in US. That's why I can see many Asian faces here, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Is here their final home? In the poem Journey to America, I can read a kind of helplessness as well as strong will to live on with dignity and honor. The history has taught them so much about how to endure any difficulties and tortures, how to keep living in the chink between powerful nations. Death, hunger, illness, all kind of miseries can not beat a nation if there is a strong will. I like the last part of the peom: " They conquered our homeland, but they cannot conquer us." Even though they were conquered by other peoples, they still had free soul! This is the spirit which keeps a nation standing in the forests fo nations, though it is the minor one.
Hail to freedom, and God bless Hmong people!
On arriving Eau Claire, I have heard people talking about "Hmong" People for many times. I took it for granted that they should be people from Mogolia. But I am wrong, totally wrong! Yesterday in Jasmine's class, I got to know, for the first time, that they are people whose ancestors fled from China! That is why many people told me that they are trading Asian grocery.
Don't stop there! After I learned the history, I took much sympathy on them. They fled from their home to Laos in the late 1800's, just because they wanted to keep their tradition, which is supposed to be people's right! They fled again from Laos to Thailand, just because they helped the enemy of the goverment. But in Thailand, they lived in misery. Where were their brothers and friends? Where was their God? Finally, they got the agreement to live in US. That's why I can see many Asian faces here, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Is here their final home? In the poem Journey to America, I can read a kind of helplessness as well as strong will to live on with dignity and honor. The history has taught them so much about how to endure any difficulties and tortures, how to keep living in the chink between powerful nations. Death, hunger, illness, all kind of miseries can not beat a nation if there is a strong will. I like the last part of the peom: " They conquered our homeland, but they cannot conquer us." Even though they were conquered by other peoples, they still had free soul! This is the spirit which keeps a nation standing in the forests fo nations, though it is the minor one.
Hail to freedom, and God bless Hmong people!
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