@thePoster
This isn't about which culture invented which games or hunting tools. This is about a bunch of Hmong people thinking THEIR standards are what determines who is Hmong and who is a sellout. Don't play rope jump? Not Hmong enough. Don't speak Hmong? Sellout, not Hmong enough. Don't know anything about Hmong funerals or customs? GTFO you're not Hmong. Play basketball? Waste of time, doesn't improve the relevancy of Hmong culture.
Let's use your Native Americans and bow and arrow analogy. If a Native American doesn't carry around a bow and arrow like it's 1500, is he/she still Native? If they don't wear a handmade cow leather thong and prance around in the moonlight doing some traditional dance, are they a sellout? Because if you live in the Midwest, where you actually do see Native Americans, they dress just like everyone else - denim, khakis, t shirts, dress shoes, sneakers, etc. This goes for the tribal lands as well. This doesn't make them sellouts or any less Native than someone else who can speak their language and chooses to dress traditional as much as they can. Would you go up to an Italian- or Irish-American and say, "Yo, you can't speak Italian or Irish. You can't even cook one dish of Italian or Irish food. GTFO you ain't Italian/Irish!" No, you wouldn't. That would be stupid.
For those of you who don't agree with what I'm saying, you're just an elitist thinker and you think you're a hot shot Hmong person when you are wearing denim and drinking your Starbucks just like the rest of us. You just simply think your shiit doesn't stink.
As for cultural items and ideas, every culture has borrowed from others that there is no such thing as pure English culture, pure Hmong culture, or pure whatever culture. Even the Amazonian tribes, the very last people on earth who are having contact with the mainstream world, are using guns to hunt and wearing t shirts and pants and sneakers. This doesn't make them sellouts or no longer Amazon tribes - they are still who they are. If you can't wrap this around your thick head, just look down and tell me what you are wearing right this second. If you are in no underwears and you are not in Hmong pants/skirts, then you are full of shiiit. Enjoy your iced latte, Pepsi, or whatever non-Hmong beverage you are having for lunch. What's for lunch? Sweet rice and laarb, a Laotian dish? McDonald's, perhaps? Subway? It's cool. You're still Hmong regardless.
Like I said, this is ridiculous as inner-beauty. Because anyone can say anything. You wear denim? Not Hmong. You eat papaya salad, a Laotian dish? Not Hmong. You own and drive a car? Not Hmong - Hmong never engineered any vehicle, gas powered or otherwise. You were born in America? Garbage Hmong - real Hmong are born in Asian. You're born in Thailand? Garbage Hmong - real Hmong are born in Guizhou province, China. You were born in 21st Century? Garbage - Hmong born after the year 300AD are no longer Hmong and they just incorporate other cultures.
Do you see the retard snowball effect?
