Yes. I ignore them.
If a person doesn't have a problem with not liking their own people group, then I shouldn't try to make it into a problem. It's not my job to convince them otherwise because it's their life and their decision to make. Whether I agree or like their decision is irrelevant.
I have friends who ignore everything that is Hmong but follow all American traditions and holidays. They are neither religious or follow any Hmong cultural traditions like hu plig and jingle bells.
It is awkward to see them as Hmong, guess you can call them Asian American?
I like your approach. Said what I said in way shorter words.
Just mind your own business and yea.
Wish more people were like you.
- Now that I think of it. You can apply this to just about anything.
Mind your own business when it's such trivial matters that serves no significance to your life. Don't make it a bigger issue than it needs to be.
The world (atleast America) would be so much better if people would just mind their own business on such trivial matters.
We can ignore them and mind our own business but is it our responsibility as a HMONG person to guide them back to their roots? The American tradition is a compilation of many different cultures from around the world not just one if you really look at it. Kind like how we've borrowed ideas, words, and traditions from other Asian cultures and adopted them into Hmong tradition—how do we even know that our traditions were originated by Hmong people? Most of our history is by word of mouth.