Actually, what I'm saying is that Hmoob dawb, dub and lees are the same. Like the example I said earlier, a Hmoob dawb born in the USA and never having been exposed to any other Hmoob lees/dub, would meet with one from any part of the world and intelligibly communicate above 90%. This is not a coincidence. It takes many centuries for a group of people who are the same blood living together closely to develop the same language. Hmoob dawb, lees, and dub are the same. You can't prove me wrong because it is a fact.
The other part of what I'm saying is that the other groups of Miao who do not call themselves Hmoob, have never called themselves Hmoob, are NOT Hmoob. No matter what similarities you see, whether in the clothing, culture, or even a few words here and there, they are not Hmoob and we are not them. They would know who they are and they know for a fact that they are not us.
To make this simple, if you take a five-minute clip of two Hmong dawb/lees persons from the USA having a meal and conversing in Hmoob about their day, and you show this to all groups of Miao in China, if they cannot understand at least 90% what in the world these two Hmoob are speaking about, they are not Hmoob.
This is not about elitism. I have nothing to gain by pointing out the simple, observable fact that not all Miao are Hmoob. This is purely addressing the frustrating phenomenon that the majority of Hmoob USA people, upon seeing any clothing or culture material that looks remotely like ours, without any further investigation, they go "Look! Look! That is Hmoob. They are us!"
