Hmong people will lose its identity due to modernization. Hmong culture, its' food and its' heritage all come from it's survival from the land, it's neighbors and the natural lifestyle of hunting, fishing, agriculture and social structure. All of these are going away just as the Anglo Americans once were. We see how they have lost their identity over time and we are in no way going to lose all of our identity. Take for example the Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese etc. They are able to keep their identity only because they have a country to preserve and keep the prejudice, the close knit of lifestyle and the organization of their elders and laws. We Hmongs have non of these as we are assimilating in such a way that modernization is wiping the culture and heritage all at once. Words and dictions that we never experienced in our own terms are taken and being used from the English language. Can you say "atom" or "black holes" in the hmong language.