Hmoob tej tub zoo nraug heev! The man who sings this is so handsome!

[Believe_N_Me]

So that is the legacy that these OGs are leaving behind, eh?

[Reporter]

Yes.

[Believe_N_Me]

Is it still a thing where OGs go marry young brides from oversea?

Es koj ne? Siab tsis qaug rau lawv cov nkauj teb chaws los tsuas lod?

[Reporter]

OGs are still flocking there.

Kuv tsis nyiam mos ab es.

Es koj puas nyiam nraug mos ab ma?

[Believe_N_Me]

Nraug mos ab khuam kev xwb os.

I don't know why but I've always been attracted to older men.  That must make me the nkauj mos ab. 

This song says it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ixYnl0kGeI

[Reporter]

Those guys wanted to be treated instead of treating their women.

Your look qualifies you as that.

[Believe_N_Me]

Nowadays, I see younger men marrying overseas. Those girls don't have to settle for grandpas anymore to bring them to the USA. In the past, it seemed our young, Americanized Hmong men were still unsure if a Lao girl would be compatible. But these days, those Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese Hmong girl look way more progressive than even American-Hmong girls.

[Reporter]

Young women, too, are looking overseas for grooms. The youngest I have helped bring a groom over is 18. She married a guy from Laos who's 26. Both are very compatible in looks.

I've seen young people go overseas for brides and grooms, too. They go for looks more.

There's a touch of romance that those overseas have that we lack.

True, the grandpas and grandmas are going to to resort to other OGs around the US soon.

[Believe_N_Me]

When I was a teen nobody wanted to date an MTT. But I have seen the boys from TT these days and some of them are very attractive. They keep themselves looking nice, unlike many of the young, single guys in America.

[Reporter]

When you don't have enough nutrition, you are not going to grow fat at all.

But we have too much nutrition in America.

[Believe_N_Me]

When you don't have enough nutrition, you are not going to grow fat at all.

But we have too much nutrition in America.

They also have a different lifestyle that keeps them thin.

Have you visited the Hmong in Thailand? Some appear to be doing very well for themselves.

[Reporter]

True. When one labors harder, one stays more fit. I know that. I grew up on a farm. Now and then I still finding axing some logs very fun to do.

I was in  Thailand in 1998 and toured two Hmong villages there. They are more stable than those in Laos because they did not suffer warfare the way we did. We had to abandon things and they were just building into their fifth or sixth generations already. But they are still backward and lacking most modern resources. Some live in thatches without electricity in the houses. Many have blended into the Thai community--some become Thais in Bangkok and you don't know them to be Hmong anymore.

[Believe_N_Me]

I have noticed many of them speaking only Thai. Many of the comments under Youtube vids from Hmong Thai are all written in Thai.

[Reporter]

Right. Some have jumped from writing and speaking Thai to English but never learn Hmong.

With our new image in America and Sunisa's climb to the top of the world, they are now turning back to some of those villages.

[Believe_N_Me]

Who is turning back to the villages?