My point is that there are too many bad news coming out from our Moob communities around the U.S.. And why is that? Because we are slowly losing our respect for each other. We are adopting and taking on the social behaviors around us. The older generations had our culture, traditions to guide them in life for a long time. Disagreements were worked out with the clan leaders, relatives, etc. People worked things out through dialogue. It wasn't perfect but our tradition and culture brought our Moob people together. But now I often see our Moob people moving away from our own culture and traditional ways of life. And we are slowly adopting the culture-less, tradition-less "me, myself and I" attitude of the American society. The younger generations are throwing traditions, customs, culture away piece by piece. Take the fights happening at the soccer tournaments. Take the Moob youths joining gangs. Take the Moob becoming drug addicts. Take the homeless Moob people living under bridges. Take the divorce rates happening within our Moob communities. These are all examples of a non-traditional non-cultural values we are adopting now. These types of behavior were unheard of during our parent's generations. Because we don't care to exercise our tradition, value our culture we learn to take on the behavior and attitudes of this selfish society. We become what our neighbors are like. Vangs marrying Vangs. Yangs marrying Yangs. Extra marital affairs. Moob people doing porn movies. You name it our Moob people has done it, with no shame. Those are just some examples of throwing traditions out the window. That sets the trend for other clans to do the same thing.
Back to the killings. I'm guessing it's payback due to either someone getting it on with someone else's significant other or the usual drug/money problem. Nothing makes another man go to these extremes as those afore mentions.
I agree totally. Yes nothing is perfect back in Laos/Thailand, then again nothing is perfect anywhere. However, its DOUBLE WORST here in America due to, like I keep preaching, "you just another Asian person to me". My wife who is a supervisor who over looked many Hmong people at her jobs tells me she try to do what is best for Hmong and always look out for her Hmong people MOST of the time. However she see that most younger Hmong peeps at her jobs don't care much about the "Hmong help Hmong" patriotic mindset, thus resulting in "you are just another Asian person to me". With a mindset like this with Hmong Millennial's and their children and so forth will make everything you mention above from respect, Yang marrying Yang, divorce rate, etc. tripled in the next 20 years.
Like you said above, "Because we don't care to exercise our tradition, value our culture we learn to take on the behavior and attitudes of this selfish society. We become what our neighbors are like". We lost our TRUE roots, we don't respect our values when others see that it's what define us, we want to be someone else like White, Korean, etc. The enemy only fear when you are strong as a community, when you are just another Asian and we have no community, the enemy just laugh and this is what exactly happening to us Hmong people in the near future. So sad but I won't live to see all the chaos.....lol.
About GVP. To be a leader you have to except love and hate equally. Some of you can't even make your marriage work, you can't even out argue your own kids, you can't even work things out with family, clan members and community. Most of you will just piss in you pants when having to make life changing decisions that will sacrifice many of your own people for the better good. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure GVP have its bad too, but look what happening to our Hmong communities since he was gone, EXACTLY! No more comment. Go watch the movie HERO with Jet Li, there's a strong message in that movie. Oh wait some of you won't be able to decode the message either......GO
D HELP US, lol.