Who are the Hmong?
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2021
- If you're curious to learn more, here are some of the resources I used listed below:
10 things about Hmong culture, food and language you probably didn’t know
www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03...
Hmong Timeline (Minnesota Historical Society)
www.mnhs.org/hmong/hmong-time...
We Are Hmong Minnesota: Images
www.mnhs.org/media/news/5068
www.gettyimages.com/
Hmong wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_p...
Miao Rebelions
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miao_re...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miao_Re...)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miao_Re...)
Lost photos: Hmong nurses of the secret war
littlelaosontheprairie.org/20...
Creating paj ntaub (flower cloth)
• Creating Paj Ntaub
A 6000 years old culture of a people, condensed to a mere 5 minutes youtube isnt going to be enough, let alone define the complex structures of a people. Our homeland is in modern day China.
However, I appreciated the content creator taking the time to shine a small glimpe into the Hmong's past.
Thank you!
I’m pretty sure she didn’t intend for this short video to be a comprehensive study of every aspect of Hmong culture and history, but rather a springboard for your own further learning and understanding.
Thank you. I’m Hmong, my late father never informed me about their origins. He hardly talked about his dad or my grandfather. He tells Hmong stories, mostly about the orphan boy. But my dad wasn’t an orphan. He had siblings. He raised us in a small Hmong community where the majority of Asians were of other Asians such as Chinese Vietnamese Cambodian and Thai. So I grew up knowing nothing about the Hmong people except that I am Hmong. Every persons in my life that has asked me what ethnic Asian am I, I tell them Hmong, never fails with a follow up question asking “what is Hmong” In my mind I don’t know, so I just say Laos, sometimes I just say Chinese. So I do appreciate your dedication and researching Hmong and sharing it with the world. thank you.
Just an fyi, the flag you used here is not representative of all Hmoob, but the Chaofa State, a group that is working toward a designated ground for the Hmong people to call our own. Members from this group are primarily those that used the Niam Ntawv Sooblwj Yaj's Ntawv PhajHauj Script (Mother of Writing).
As for the name Hmong: Hmoob, though we had called ourselves as such for thousands of years, it was not known in English writing until after May 14, 1975. When the Hmong refugees reached Thailand and sought for refugee resettlement, the US Government denied that request stating that the Lao people were not official refugee because Lao was part of the CIA Covert Operation only. Official refugee status was offered to only the Vietnamese at that time. When the Lao people were officially granted the refugee status, the Hmong requested to ensure that the Hmong were included as well and not just Lao. The US governmental officials simply told the Hmong leaders at that time in Thailand that they knew no such name for they had only worked with the Meo people. Thereafter, the written name Hmong was submitted and recognized and viola, here we are 50 years after, resettled as Hmong abroad. Since 2013 we have celebrated Hmong American Day in Minnesota and as Hmoob Day! since 2018. Let me know if anyone has any questions/concerns. Thanks for putting this video together.
-TxiabNeeb/Tzianeng,
Twin Cities, MN
ChaoFa are the guerilla fighters who were left behind when the american troops left southeast asia.
Thank you so much for making this awesome video. That's very kind of you. Keep up the good work. 👍 😀👍
I was in the Navy during the Vietnam war and only learned of Hmong people from one of my Vietnamese friends about 10 years ago. I love my Hmong friends and try to teach people about them now. You should do a video on Hmong colors.
That's so cool! Thanks for your suggestion!
Very well done video...thanks for sharing!
Super informative! Great introduction and platform more learning!! Thank you!!
extremely good and informative video, thank you!
I am Hmong, this video is very helpful, thank you so much! Really appreciated!😀
Who are the Hmong? But a Lao thumbnail. You're keeping the confusion going for the average Americans who only know Hmong but Lao as Hmong? I'm Hmong. This is problem with hardcore hmongs
Great presentation about the Hmong people.
Great info..thanks
Thanks for the video. Often heard of Hmong, Miao...now I learn their so ancient roots in China. Wow. So much to see in wonderful China.
Thank you for the beautiful story
Good work
Thank you
Thank you for talking about my people. I would like to clear up the fact that Hmong is what we call ourselves and miao is what the world know us by from Chinese Han. Example is the native American accept the term Indian as it was giving to them by the European.
Wrong the europeans arriving to america called them indians thinking they were in India.
God bless ALL the Hmong!! Much respect!!! #ONELOVE
I am Hmong in America, I like to learn more Hmong history from China to Vietnam, Laos , Thailand and to the United States
Great job ❤️☝️
Thank you!!!!
Thank ypu for express the hmong people or miao, i an hmong americans
That is not our flag. It's just some wishful man's scrawling.
Secondly, the Hmong of S.E. Asia and the West by extension, make up a very small minority of the global Hmong population. Therefore, we do not and cannot represent the lived experiences of the majority of Hmong who are fully Chinese as natives of China. There is also very little distinction between Hmong and Han genotype or phenotype. My 23&Me profile says I'm 100% Chinese, and it's something I've come to celebrate.
It should also be noted that millions of Hmong have assimilated into "majority" Chinese culture. Thus, we have made similar contributions to the Chinese cultural "melting pot" just like many of our fellow Chinese minority brethren. Further more, we were not the only Chinese ethnic group to rise up against imperial oppression. Many other ethnic groups also rebelled, but later assimilated.
Finally, the Han is not a homogeneous "ethnic" group in its truest sense. It is rather a composite cultural group of many assimilated and conquered ethnic groups formed and shaped throughout thousands of years of Chinese population shift and migration. Hence, the linguistic, cultural, and physical diversity among the "Han."
The age of the internet has made Hmong people a novelty. :D
Thank you.
Good job 👍
I am hmong americans, think you for your hmong history
I'm so glad you liked it!
4:57, Jiang Zemin/Ncaaj Txawm Meej? WOW!
Beautiful. I adore Oswald...well everybody must be in the act❤ I got two furbabies😊 Like Hmong people Indigenous races can be found in every continent. Japan has the Ainu on Hokkaido...Greenland has the Inuit same as Alaska... Romani/Sinti/Domari from India.
Wow! Thanks to the author of the channel for this fascinating video! It is interesting to see how people live in other countries! It is very important to know foreign languages on such trips. I would like to recommend to all travelers a practical guide to learning foreign languages by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages". This book contains a lot of useful tips on how to learn a foreign language for tourists, students, entrepreneurs and anyone who needs a foreign language in life. There are a lot of good tips on how to solve problems with the language from beginner to advanced level of language learning. It turns out that the traveler only needs to know a few dialogues and you can easily travel around the world! You don't have to spend a lot of time to fully learn a foreign language, you just need to learn what you can use when you travel. I wish everyone exciting travels!
That's great for our young Hmong people to learn. But, if you could slow down on your speaking that would be awesome. Ua tsaug!
Interesting. I thought I was the only one being treated differently in this world but that's not the case. I been so caught up dealing with other races that I forgot how big this world and universe really is. Great video. It actually came into my feed so thank you CZcams for the video.
Thanks for the comment! Unfortunately, there definitely is a lot of injustice in the world that looks very familiar.
@@asianinamerica1135 But on the other hand more and more people are waking up.
I would like to correct that, us hmong people don't even know our actual flag at all. Though, some say that our flag is part of our hmong clothing.
Great job sister.
Thank you!
I’m Hmong and I had no idea that we had a flag. It looks Chinese origin and doesn’t represent our colorful colors in our clothing so I don’t claim it as a Hmong flag.
this is the first time I saw a "Hmong" flag. it'll be interesting to see how they were made.
Good informations Hmong sister. .
Thank you!! I just want to clarify that I'm not Hmong myself. I'm glad to see some approval from Hmong people in the comments!
Love hmong
Thank you my Hmong suffer so much every corner. In America Hmong losing it populates due to education,jobs and less kids for young generation.
Thank Hmong people.
Im H'mông việt nam 🇻🇳🇻🇳
I'm Vietnamese and I must say that those Hmong chose their side so yeah this is what they have now
War is politics. Anyone can choose a side. Samething for Vietnamese people after the fall of Saigon. South Vietnamese citizens fleeing Vietnam because they don't want to be ruled over by communism. Now look at today Vietnamese in Western countries like Hmong people in western countries. I must say that those Vietnamese chose their side so yeah this is what they have today.
It's not nice to commit genocide against people that "chose" a side.
You do know that not all Hmong people fought for the USA right? Some of them fought for Vietnam and Laos also that’s why a lot of them still remain in Vietnam and Laos…
@@changmouapride9048 yeah but what Im trying to say here that hmongs who chose to fight for usa now have to accept what they have atm bcs that is the result of their choice in the past
if you ask the hmong, the most well known hmong people are actually not the people you mentioned. OG singers, actors, musicians, and community leaders would be typical.
I love my unofficial hmong fam in Fresno. You guys rock!!!!
Hmong do not have a flag. The flag showed is not an official Hmong flag. Many Hmong people and groups have come up with many different flags for the Hmong, but none is accepted.
Thanks for the clarification!
Not to offend you, but Hmong do have a flag and a Hmong symbol that represent our Hmong nation. Please don't say things you don't know.
@@TV-gs7zh oh, really. Where is the Hmong flag? I saw a few online suggested by a few people and a few groups, but that doesn't mean it's a Hmong flag. When we talk about a Hmong flag, we mean an official flag that represents the entire Hmong people, not these fake flags mentioned by some dudes who made them up for themselves. If you have one, plz show it here to see if the Hmong people will recognize it as a Hmong flag.
@@kevkawmkevpaub6189 Hmong do have a flag, whether you like it or not. The world already knew about it. The ONLY one that doesn't know or recognize it's own symbolic and national identity is the 90% (or 95%) of our Hmong individuals, who knew nothing about Hmong cultural identity. My ONLY advice to you is, if you want to know about Hmong cultural identity, or if Hmong have a flag, then go and research to expand your expertise and knowledge. REMEMBER, know who you are and don't denied your cultural identity.
@@TV-gs7zh. Then why don't you upload it here. Do you even know what culture and identity are. I don't have to do a research to know what a Hmong flag is, because I'm a Hmong. Are you a Hmong. Your name doesn't seem to be a Hmong name. If there is a Hmong flag, every Hmong person should have known it already. You think know more about Hmong culture and identity than I do. Oh, think twice and stop lying. Maybe you have your own flag that you think it's a Hmong flag, but heel no it doesn't work that way.
This isn't too shabby for a 5-minute video. Some things I would like to remind people watching this video are 1) Hmong people do not have a flag and 2) there are many top Lao government officials that are Hmong who sided with the communist. For example, the Nancy Pelosi of Laos is Hmong, Pany Yathotou.
Zoo heev li nawb es peb sib pab nias tes txhawb nqa peb cov CZcams nov ua ke mus nawb ua tsaug ntau ntau os
It was not a failure to simulate into han culture it was a choice to not. They didn't give up they're birthplace tribal lands without hundreds of years fighting unlike most places where they didn't put up any resistance than made they're own ancestors language a second option.
You're absolutely right about it being a choice. People should always have that choice to assimilate with one culture or to maintain their own.
0:34, our Hmong nation mascot of San Miao is the bull. We are the bull nation. MOOOO!
The Hmong mythical sigil is the Phoenix --> Pheasant --> Chicken.
@@tsuvtom7668 Peasant? Are you calling your own people peasants? We are not peasants! Have you not read about how powerful the Chu Dynasty was?
@@KevinVang1000 I hope you can distinguish between the words "pheasant" and "peasant." Anyhow, I was trying to say that the pheasant took the place of the phoenix, and more conveniently, the chicken did as well.
@@tsuvtom7668 Oh. My bad.
@@KevinVang1000 No Problem. If anything, our flag should at least contain the 2 crisscrossed lushengs (qeej). And stay away from the color red LOL.
Like another commenter stated, the flag really only represents the Chaofa State, which is NOT a ruling or governing body encompassing of all Hmong people. No more than the Hmong anthem sung in China is representative of all the Hmong in the world. And Hmong people in the United States do have a council that make suggestions on policy and other very boring subject, they have no power behind their edicts. One of the council is located in St. Paul, MN and the only thing I can remember coming out of that was agreement on the maximum amount a parent can ask for in a dowry for their daughter. Dowry.
The ONLY person whose opinion matters is the clan leader of each clan. And even then, he isn’t a ruler or policy maker. More of a defang “godfather” kind of guy whose primary duty is domestic crisis intervention. It includes inter-clan “wars” resulting from cheating spouses, couple counselings, eloping children, to other varied and incredibly boring inter- and intra- clan issues.
To give you an example of how much Hmong people care about Hmong politics: they can probably name their clan leader; they can probably name their spouse and friends clan leader; they have a more likely hood of naming each and every WNBA player name then even one person on any of the council that meet to “set” policy.
And here is the hard to hear truth about US Hmong culture that no one wants to speak about:
- Hmong culture is patriarchal. Only the male line is passed down. The female line can be used to connect relations between families but they don’t carry the family name and family ancestral “spirits”, for a lack of any words. That doesn’t mean Hmong women are an afterthought. They can become powerful and be a voice within the clan. It just means there is no such thing as a female clan leader. She can rule by proxy via her husband but not by herself, for marriages and other esoteric ceremonies are done by men. At least so for Hmong in the US.
- If you have no male offspring, your line dies with you. Adopt one or buy one. Yes, buy.
- No one, outside of your clan, care if you are gay, your line dies with you. Your clan though, might disown you from shame. Remember, no sons, no future.
- A widowed woman can be asked to marry someone within the family or be “attached” to a family if she has sons and the clan wants to keep the sons within the family. If she remarries outside of the clan, the clan might “lose” the sons to her husband clan. Basically, what it boils down to is, did the clan adopt the sons and if not, who is doing the son wedding. The new father clan or his blood father clan.
- Hmong people are incredibly racist. The fear of “other”. If you are a woman and have even one kid, your chance of marrying a Hmong guy diminish by the race of the child father. Chances in descending order: widowed; widowed father is Hmong; out of wedlock father is Hmong; out of wedlock father is of any race but black; out of wedlock father is black; widowed and father is of any race but black; widowed and father is black. You get the picture. Hmong families has been known to hide and exile to distance family members daughters who have a black child.
- No one hate Hmong people more than other Hmong people. One of the worst thing you can call another Hmong person is to refer to them as “those Hmong people” to their face or when talking about them to another Hmong person.
- Hmong people really have no swear words as American sees it. The worst you can do is call another woman a “runaway wife” and another Hmong person “your face got bitten by a tiger”. Other swear slang is a literal translation of English swear word, like “mangy female dog”.
- Older generation’s Hmong people treat sex like the Japanese do. You do it. You get over it. No one that I know care about virginity. All they care about is children and their provenance.
- If your wife cannot give you any children, it’s her fault. Divorce her and marry another one or better yet, if you can afford it, just marry another one.
- Hmong culture on marriage states that you can marry as many wife as you want as long as you can provide for them. You don’t need anyone consent except your wallet.
Sigh. Too many to list.
Hmong do not have flags... fake and made up... I am hmong and I don't/not claim that flag as hmong flags it doesn't represent anything HMOOB on it.
agree with you. Peb hmoob yeej tsis muaj thiab paub hais tias peb muaj ib tug cij!
@@tsovdigmuag9667 yog! Zoo tias muaj nej cov xav li kuv thiab. Yuav hais tias peb hmoob muaj cij no ua dabtsi. Peb hmoob twb tsi muaj teb chaw es yuav muaj tau cij li cas... peb hmoob tsis txob ruam2 es lam tau lam muab tej cij dag nov los ua hmoob tus
Those flags were probably created by the Hmong Chao Fa lol.
I have no idea what that flag is. A good idea of what the hmong flag should be, elephant or the hearts symbol from our cloth it's unique from others and popular in our culture.
@@AsianAmericanGuy Our flag will just probably be our embroidered pattern on our Hmong clothes lol
U forgot jet li he hmong too
Oh! I didn't know that! Thanks for the info!
That is not true. Jet Li isn’t Hmong. This is how rumors start.
@@u208839 Thanks for clearing that up XD
Jet li is not miao he is taiwanese chinese the true government of the Qing dynasty.
And also go get this book is the only one telling the truth about Mong peoples
Mong China History and Heritage preservation
Mong China History and Heritage Preservation
Thanks for the book recommendation!
The palestinians of asia.
So these are Asia version of the Gypsy.
No, we may look like Asia version of the Gypsy but not really.
@@adalieplayz Oh okay. I understand. Have a good one
@@brendenmenardprincestrong3528 Mhm!
I’m mong American our mong people are the xia peoples we are not miao people we don’t celebrate chi Yu and we don’t wear demons mask . A lot’s of mong people don’t know who they are and coming from I just don’t understand mong claims themselves Miao tribes . The Miao tribes are the Dongyi, Mabyi, and Han tribes.this is the truth.
Then tell the Mien cousin to stop calling us g pu meo🤦🏽♂️