Adaptation Expert: Hmong

[GhostRider]

Along the way, Hmong people have become so good at adapting to their surroundings that...have we forgoten who we are?
Who are we to start with...and who are we now?  Who will we become? or is this where everything stops?

[tetrapod]

I want my kids to be white so that they will blend in just like kenue reeve.  Do you see asian actors playing lead role in big budget holly wood movies?  Of course not.  Brenda doing is smart.  Her children will have a better chance in hollywood because they will be white and not hmong.  Our hmong women are more flexible when comes to adaptation. 
Can't beat them, join them. 

[8v10un30sun]

I want my kids to be white so that they will blend in just like kenue reeve.  Do you see asian actors playing lead role in big budget holly wood movies?  Of course not.  Brenda doing is smart.  Her children will have a better chance in hollywood because they will be white and not hmong.  Our hmong women are more flexible when comes to adaptation. 
Can't beat them, join them. 

Wow...If you make such statement why do you care about marrying a Hmong woman?  To make your parents happy?  Make yourself happy first.  They lived their life and now you live yours.

[tetrapod]

Wow...If you make such statement why do you care about marrying a Hmong woman?  To make your parents happy?  Make yourself happy first.  They lived their life and now you live yours.

They would say I am committing genetic suicide. 

[Reporter]

It's true that we Hmong adapt so well. But if we adapt to the good side, like in business or politics and even the natural sciences, that's fine. Just don't join gangs or become criminals.

[Hung_Low]

I want my kids to be white so that they will blend in just like kenue reeve.  Do you see asian actors playing lead role in big budget holly wood movies?  Of course not.  Brenda doing is smart.  Her children will have a better chance in hollywood because they will be white and not hmong.  Our hmong women are more flexible when comes to adaptation. 
Can't beat them, join them. 

Don't matter what you try your kids will never be white... all they'll be is mutt/half-breed. Now if you marry a white and your descendants only marry white... five or six generation from now, they'll be more white but still not fully white.

[tetrapod]

Don't matter what you try your kids will never be white... all they'll be is mutt/half-breed. Now if you marry a white and your descendants only marry white... five or six generation from now, they'll be more white but still not fully white.

Kenue reeve is white.  His father is asian and his mother is white. 

[DonJuan]

I've adapted so well my kids look like Tiger Wood.

On the serious note, I don't care much about being Hmong or not.
I live my life and I will die as a human in my struggle to be perfect.

[tetrapod]

I've adapted so well my kids look like Tiger Wood.

On the serious note, I don't care much about being Hmong or not.
I live my life and I will die as a human in my struggle to be perfect.

Kenue reeve is still better than tiger wood.  That is why I want my kids to be white.

[lilly]

Along the way, Hmong people have become so good at adapting to their surroundings that...have we forgoten who we are?
Who are we to start with...and who are we now?  Who will we become? or is this where everything stops?

You pose some very good questions, GhostRider.
1) I am truly scared because I sense such a loss of knowledge about who we really are, where we really began... you know, from all the way back in China.  That's still all so unclear even though the Chinese scholars have made much progress in unraveling the Hmong's past.
2) Who will we become?  I think we will become mixed and assimilated with whichever society we live in.  More than half of the Argentinean Hmong girls marry Argentineans, Hmong French marry French people, Hmong Americans marry Whites and other ethnicities.  We’ll be blended with other people and in a couple of hundred years I really don’t think there will be that many pure Hmong blood running through us.  But that’s OK.  That’s something we can’t stop.  What we can do is help preserve the many wonderful and unique things about our culture.  Write as much as you know about your roots, turn your writings into books… and pass it down the generations.

[chingy-vang]

I want my kids to be white so that they will blend in just like kenue reeve.  Do you see asian actors playing lead role in big budget holly wood movies?  Of course not.  Brenda doing is smart.  Her children will have a better chance in hollywood because they will be white and not hmong.  Our hmong women are more flexible when comes to adaptation. 
Can't beat them, join them. 

You are blaming Asians when you should be blaming Hollywood. Asians dont need to change, Hollywood definitely needs to though. you are doing exactly what Hollywood intended, they say you must not be Asian to get a good role. You buy into their brain washing when you should be opposing them and standing up for the Pure blooded Asians

[tetrapod]

You are blaming Asians when you should be blaming Hollywood. Asians dont need to change, Hollywood definitely needs to though. you are doing exactly what Hollywood intended, they say you must not be Asian to get a good role. You buy into their brain washing when you should be opposing them and standing up for the Pure blooded Asians

I'm not blaming Asians.  The current environment is that white are more accepted.  To be accepted, one must be white.  It may change in the future, but for now that's how it is.

[chingy-vang]

I'm not blaming Asians.  The current environment is that white are more accepted.  To be accepted, one must be white.  It may change in the future, but for now that's how it is.

And you let them win? They tell you that if you not white then you ugly and you say ok I'll do anything to please you my white master. By the way white isn't  the main attraction now, everyone's trying to be black, especially them white boys.  Don't follow the Japanese who got so hooked on being white that all their anime, game characters are white faces speaking Japanese. It's pretty wrong when an Asian parent tells their children that they aren't pretty cause they don't have big eyes, big nose bridge, light skin

[NkaujNom]

Endless tug of war. Make your pick and tug.

[LadyLionness]

Along the way, Hmong people have become so good at adapting to their surroundings that...have we forgoten who we are?
Who are we to start with...and who are we now?  Who will we become? or is this where everything stops?

I didn't read any of the other responses, but I beg to differ.

We are experts at adapting, but until we have came to the US, we have always been able to maintain who we are as Hmong... unchanging for the last 4,000 years. 

It's only been in this land of "freedom" that so many Hmong wants to do away with their culture and who they are.  They are under the misconception that they will be happier if there are no boundaries, rules, values, virtues...