Boua Xiong, reporter@KARE11

[chuleej]

I'm not sure what's positive about these hmong women becoming reporter the more successful they are the more a white mans w-h-o-r-e they become and the more they going look down on their counterpart Hmong men. 

[chuleej]

Cindy Cha is my auntie. She use to live in Santa Ana, California and did a talk show for celebrities but divorced my uncle and married a white guy and then moved to Hawaii.

  prove that mine statement is true

[Reporter]

I'm not sure what's positive about these hmong women becoming reporter the more successful they are the more a white mans w-h-o-r-e they become and the more they going look down on their counterpart Hmong men.  

You gonna work in the mainstream, you gonna have to sleep with the mainstream.

It's a lonely life being in the mainstream. Very few other Asians make it there and those who are there do not always find companionship from their own ethnic communities.

[Fuchsia]

thats the first problem. ppl who like to ASSume. 

i hope u know ur hmong well. here is a basic hmoob 101:

Npua = hmong word for pig

Npuas = hmong word for bubble(s).  or hmong phonetic for lao word - lotus

I hear ya on the Hmong spelling but we are talking strictly pronunciation here. So does the words "Npua" in Hmong and "Boua" in English sound alike to you or is it just us?

Ok, let me simplify it again  . Stay focus: We are NOT talking about meaning, we are talking about pronunciation.

Her name might very well be Npua, as in "pig".  Just FYI for those of you who do not know…

Back in the days (might still be common today for Shamanism practices), it's very common for Hmong people to "hloov npe" or "tis npe tshab" or just simply give their kids some very strange and ugly names, as Hmong people believe that demons/evil-spirits cannot see but they can hear.  So if you give your kids beautiful names, demons/evil-spirits/dlaab will take them away – meaning they will die so the ugly and strange name is to ward-off death and sickness.  This "hloov npe" and/or giving your kids ugly names to your kids are especially common when a family suffered many deaths among small children or if the child is often sick.

For instance, if you see a beautiful and adorable baby, you cannot said, "Oh, your baby is so adorable/cute/handsome."  If you say that, then demons/evil-spirit will come after him/her.  You have to say, "Oh, what ugly baby you have."  That way, demons/evil-spirits will think the baby is ugly; hence, leave him/her alone.  Another example, if you name your daughter "Paaj" or "Ntxawm" and she started to very sickly, you will have to make a feast (or ua neeb) and change her name to something like "Tooj" or "Maab" or something strange.  This is why some women ended up with men names and vice versa.  The whole point is ward-off deaths and sicknesses.

[yajsiabzoo]

I think "Boua" is coming from laotian word " Dok Boua"  Water lily:  Her parents may intended to name this as a laotian name

or perhaps a typo during whoever wrote her name in to the paper:  Bao or Boua....." npaub  or npauj xyooj".........

Anyhow, I heard of her about 10 years ago.  Looks like she came from Ca.  

[andro]

Why don't someone just ask her what her name is and what it means instead of speculating on PH?

[wowsers]

if boua is her name me guess its a lao/thai name = lotus flower .. not "pig" like some of u dummies in here think it is 
i swear sometimes some hmong ppl are treated like they r ignorant n dumb cos thats just what they are: ignorant & dumb 

This can be true. I know a co worker i use to work with and her Full hmong name is pa dao boua or whatever that lotus flower is called in hmong but they just use the last part as the meeka name

[wowsers]

Why do i feel like majority of the meterologist left kare11 to kstp? like johnathan yuhas and ken barlow went to kstp after his other job.

[JustMe2]

they are all contracted.... money talks.

[Producer]

bao vang from wausau has huge thighs..

[antiaging]

good stuff and solid reporting!