When I was a kid in Thailand, the Laotian kids and us used to bully each other.

[YAX]

They'd say "Me nyuam Hmoob, sib tsoob saum roob" and we'd reply with: Me nyuam nplog sib tog, kaus nhiav poob daj vog". 

Yup. those were the days.

[Gucci K]

They'd say "Me nyuam Hmoob, sib tsoob saum roob" and we'd reply with: Me nyuam nplog sib tog, kaus nhiav poob daj vog". 

Yup. those were the days.

damn, Yax...that is old and a classic!  you are as old as nkaujsee's parents...i remember those verses but of course I was a little kid in elementary!! 

back in the days...laotion s called us "bok meow!", we would called them "pad deks!"  and then fists starts flying!

side note: no disrespect to Proudlao.

ha!

[YAX]

my dealings w/ laotions was in highschool...w here the laotions would mock us hmongs and say " chue pao loj loj" whatever it meant

Could mean a few things like:  1. tsov paum loj loj or 2. tso paus loj loj

[ProudLao]

They'd say "Me nyuam Hmoob, sib tsoob saum roob" and we'd reply with: Me nyuam nplog sib tog, kaus nhiav poob daj vog". 

Yup. those were the days.

I blame the parents for this lol

[ProudLao]

my dealings w/ laotions was in highschool...w here the laotions would mock us hmongs and say " chue pao loj loj" whatever it meant

Don’t know that one.

[ProudLao]

damn, Yax...that is old and a classic!  you are as old as nkaujsee's parents...i remember those verses but of course I was a little kid in elementary!! 

back in the days...laotion s called us "bok meow!", we would called them "pad deks!"  and then fists starts flying!

side note: no disrespect to Proudlao.

ha!

Don’t know why they would be offended with the term padek lol

[Reporter]

Didn't know Lao people spoke Hmong that well.

They'd say "Me nyuam Hmoob, sib tsoob saum roob" and we'd reply with: Me nyuam nplog sib tog, kaus nhiav poob daj vog". 

Yup. those were the days.

[YAX]

Didn't know Lao people spoke Hmong that well.

It's probably the only line they knew.  But some Lao kids can speak Hmong pretty well.  When I was a kid, one of my neighbors was a Lao kid who spoke hmong to me pretty good.  Sometimes he'd get the lines wrong though.  Like one day he said to me "Niag ntawv mas, kuv ntxim ntxub xwv".

[Cali Guy]

I don’t recall any Lao living in Vib Nais refugee camp in Thailand with us.

Met like two openly racist Lao out of many but in America.

[Reporter]

By the time your family got to Vib Nais, the Lao refugees had already been relocated to Nong Khai. That's because the Hmong kids and Lao kids and adults, too, in Vib Nais were fighting so badly that two Lao martial artists died from one final brawl. Before that brawl, the Lao kids would come at the Hmong kids with slingshots and also bully the Hmong around. They had two professional fighters--trained and fought in boxing rings before--those came over and bully Hmong people around. The issue grew so big and the Hmong got so fed up that the Hmong fighters teamed up, lured five tough Lao fighters into a soccer field and jumped onto them from every direction, some with sharpened wooden sticks hidden on nearby fences.

A Hmong hero grew out of this incident. He's in Georgia now.

The two communities could not live together, so the UN, US and Thai authorities separated them.

What's interesting is: Both communities had just lost a country and yet didn't get along, not knowing neither will win anything from those conflicts. It's like your girl has just been taken by the Vietnamese  Communists and yet you two are fighting to see who might win her.

I don’t recall any Lao living in Vib Nais refugee camp in Thailand with us.

Met like two openly racist Lao out of many but in America.

[Reporter]

I never heard any Lao or Thai speak Hmong then. But when I got here, I met a few adopted Thais and Lao who have married Hmong and who are extremely proficient in Hmong.

It's probably the only line they knew.  But some Lao kids can speak Hmong pretty well.  When I was a kid, one of my neighbors was a Lao kid who spoke hmong to me pretty good.  Sometimes he'd get the lines wrong though.  Like one day he said to me "Niag ntawv mas, kuv ntxim ntxub xwv".

[VillainousHero]

When I was a kid...

What the heck was an Asian?

You're black, white, or mexican, so what are you? 

  Fourth grade teacher said, "We're doing social studies about the world.  You're an Asian, from half way across the world." 

[YAX]

When I was a kid...

What the heck was an Asian?

You're black, white, or mexican, so what are you? 

  Fourth grade teacher said, "We're doing social studies about the world.  You're an Asian, from half way across the world." 

Asian? Nah mang, you were a CHINK!

[Reporter]

Didn't think of me as Asian. Just Hmong.

When I was a kid...

What the heck was an Asian?

You're black, white, or mexican, so what are you? 

  Fourth grade teacher said, "We're doing social studies about the world.  You're an Asian, from half way across the world."