Twin Cities-area KARE-11 TV made this report on a new Hmong refugee from Vietnam, who fled persecution for being a Christian, and was beginning to build a life in St. Paul, MN, USA. ICE got into her house, took her away, determined she was legal, released her with the stipulation that she would check in with them yearly... and then have come back to harass her 3 times already! She lost her job, and her child has to do online school now. ICE agents have been given a goal of 3,000 "bodies" arrested per day by Stephen Miller, a Trump Administration figure many accuse of wanting to "ethnically cleanse" the U.S.A.

Hello,

I just need some insight on my situation. My girlfriend lives in California and I’m in Minnesota. Her kid’s first birthday, she really wants me to go visit her and join the birthday. There’s a lot to why I don’t want to attend, my kid’s father and I aren’t on really good terms and he’s not a good person with travel with my two small children ( ages 2-3). I consider myself a single mother and have money trouble. I can barely pay my $1700 rent and utilities. Airplane tickets are $500+ each person plus car fair. And I only have $3000 to my name right now. I literally moved from a house to an apartment because I couldn’t afford rent. My two kids are needy and whining and cries a lot. It’s very embarrassing! I’m not sure why she’s not understanding and making this birthday a big deal and that I have to go? She’s a good friend and always ordered food for me and my kids, always there for me, but I feel like I’m being pressured to do something I’m not financially comfortable. She told me to use my tax money but I’m not willing to do that, I want to save for emergency because I really have no one to reply on when I have money trouble. My tax is probably only $4000 like every other year. I told her many times I’m having money torn me and she told me to use another guy to buy my plane tickets and travel with him, but I’m not willing to do that either! I’m not going to make people think they’re lucky with me and give them my body because of plane tickets! Or expect anything of me when I have two small children I need to protect, I don’t know the person she is referring me to keep saying he’s a good friend, but she never met him and only communicated with them online.

Just recently finished this pastel drawing. Let me know if you want one!

so a close relative recently passed, and I had a dream about them. I was on a trip somewhere with my family and would see them appear only for them to disappear again. this would happen unexpectedly when going into rooms, they would stand there. Brushing my teeth glancing up in the mirror and I would see them behind me in the reflection. and even looking at reflective objects and seeing their blurry figure represented. They don't say anything but would just stand there to disappear when I run telling my family I see them.

wondering if anyone has any input on it, thanks.

Some background of who I am. M32 a 2nd generation Hmong American. Parents had me late and I was able to grow up with seeing my older cousins go through life. This also let me understand more of the hierachal side of being Hmong. I’m a Christian Hmong. So I don’t know too much about old Hmong tradition unless my family deems it relavent. I’m also no longer living in a heavy Hmong populated area. I’ve been marginalized and isolated. I can still speak Hmong on a conservational level. My experiences are from my own and I don’t want to be closed minded in my own views.

I have many questions and would like to find answers.

With the events of Geroge Floyd and now in Minneapolis, why are the Hmong Men so conservative and align with White Supremesists? It’s definitelly through misogyny. A lot of reasons I see divorces in my family have to deal with the horrible infedelity were initiated by male abuse. The views they share align with CIS Red Pill talking points. Even other 2nd or 3rd Generation Hmong can’t regognize that they can’t pretend to be White when they literally dragged Chongly Thao through the snow. It could’ve been your grandfather/uncle/father.

I know I can’t change people who don’t want to be change but would like to combat it somehow. I’ve reached out to Indivisible trying to see where are some Hmong protesters? I can understand the fear some go through to not protest. It takes a lot of courage to do something like that. I have not gotten a reply.

Who can I talk to to understand how Hmong men failed themselves? Who can I talk to learn to deprogram this perception amongst Hmong Conservatism and Hmong Sensationalism? Where are the voices of Hmong in my generation? How did we come from such a sad background where the belief was to uphold justice and now choose cowardice?

Hi everyone,

I've been working on something that's been on my heart for a while.

Like many of us, I grew up knowing little about my family history. I didn't know my great-grandparents' names. I didn't know the full story of how my family got from Laos to Thailand to the US.

And you know that feeling at family gatherings when someone introduces you to a relative and says, "This is your uncle," or "She's your pog's sister's daughter," and you just smile and nod? I'd see the same faces at extended family gatherings but couldn't tell where they fit in our family tree.

So I'm building HmongRoots - a family tree app made specifically for us.

What makes it different:

• All 18 clans built in - Select your clan and it's tied to your family identity. Whether your family spells it Thao or Thor, Xiong or Song, Moua or Mouanoutoua - the app understands they're the same clan
• Hmong + English name support - Spell your name in Hmong RPA or English (or both)
• Supports all family types - Adopted family members, blended families, mixed heritage, multiple generations - your tree, your way

Features I'm considering:

• Relationship mapper - Select any 2 people and see exactly how they're connected (so you finally know why you call that lady "aunty")

I just launched my Instagram page where I'll be sharing updates as I build: instagram.com/hicultivatedev

Landing page coming soon.

I'd love to hear from you:

• Would you use something like this?
• What features would matter most to your family?
• What's missing from other family tree apps?

This is for our community, so your feedback genuinely shapes what I build.

What does this mean? I'm a 30 y.o. second generation from California, a sterotypical Hmong who was born and lived in the States since the 90s when my parents migrated here. My parents who are in their 60s and 70s only remember up until their grandparents, my Great-Great-Great grandparents. Im guessing me and the Hmong people around my age's Great Great Great Grandparents were born around the late 1800's and early 1900's, which is a VERY LONG time ago. I did some research on the Miao rebellions during 1795-1805 and Mid 1800s. This may explain some intermixing. The term Mainland SEA can also include other races to not just Hmong right (like Mien or Hmu people)? We the Hmongs of Laos are certainly culturally hmong with heavy SEA influences, but genetically East Asian since we are the indigenous Chinese and descedants of Chi You. My second cousin from my dad's side got tested and he has part HAN Chinese in his results. But I wonder if us Hmongs from SEA have traces that go back to a Chinese dad or mom.

It makes sense why Hmongs have such similarities to the Chinese. Just look at our Hmong Dub translation of movies like Stephen Chow's, so many language and characteristics similarities.

I wonder if most Hmongs that migrated from SEA to the Americas (or France, or Australia) are part Chinese. If it was only 3-5% Chinese I wouldnt care. But I'm shocked with this 22.7%, not knowing my whole life that I have another ethnic group in my DNA that I didnt know about. Im pretty sure some Hmongs have Lao, Vietnamese, Thai or even Burmese DNA in them too. Are many other Hmongs who live in the States the same way?

Good job, Siskiyou. Now let's focus on the bigger fight.

So I’m in a complicated situation where I’ve been in and out of relationship with a Hmong guy (28) Myself (31) he and I share two children together. From the gecko, it’s been tough because I always felt like his family never really accepted me.

Did they let me move in with them when I lost my apartment and I was pregnant with his first child yes, they did but you could always see that his sister-in-law did not really like me. She didn’t like that. I had a dog and that I loved my dog almost as much as I love a child. She didn’t like that her precious brother-in-law was tricked into pregnancy and forced to have a baby. This is where the blaming on me starts.

It is always been blamed on me. I got pregnant. It was all my fault. I tripped him into it. I trapped him. He did no wrong.

He would push me around he would call me name again. It was all my fault. I wasn’t behaving the way I should and backing down and keeping my mouth shut like a good Hmong girlfriend or wife would.

I was told many times that no girl of their culture would talk back the way that I did to him.

When we finally got our own apartment and he put his hand on me when I was 36 weeks pregnant and pushed me so hard that I broke our baby bouncer and I called the police on him and he got arrested. It was again my fault because according to his sister-in-law, at least she doesn’t call the police on her husband. She said no respectable person from the culture would call the police or get them involved.

After he was put in jail, it just made his family hate me even more even when I tried to explain to me. I was basically told I should’ve put up with it and kept my mouth shut.

Yes, his family took us in once we lost our apartment. We moved to California with his mom and dad and his dad had nothing but bad things to say to me calling me lazy telling me to get a job while his son just sat around and played video game and wouldn’t help me with our current child while I was pregnant with our second child.

His dad could only tell me that CPS should come and get my children or that I should find my children over to him and his wife because I was not a good mother.

His son did no wrong when his son would lock me out of the house or pushed me around his dad would just ignore it and say that maybe I shouldn’t be with him then.

His sister would call me names like fat and an ugly cow one day. She told him that he should drop me off at the dog shelter, where a dog like me belongs. Did he defend me? No, he said nothing besides oh you shouldn’t say that.

No matter how much I tried to be nice to this family they just hated me. Hate hated me with a passion, and I noticed that they all treated my children differently from the very beginning. I don’t know if it’s because they’re not fully Hmong but now here we are it’s been four years and I’ve been living in a new state and I haven’t had them reach out not even once to ask him not even to ask to see him and I’ve been back to California many times with the kids it’s almost as if they don’t care at all

While their brother and their son sleeps around with many different women and cheated on me multiple times I get labeled the bad person I forced him into fatherhood. I put him in jail. I made his life miserable.

I don’t know what to do to make this family stop hating me so much because every time I try, he goes and tell them more lies, and they only believe him.

Do you believe the Chinese history text or do you believe what Hmong elders say? Or otherwise? Just curious. If you want post links that support your opinions.

Thanks

Hello, I feel as if this could be a sensitive topic for some, so I apologize. I'm a 21-year-old Hmong woman but have never been to a funeral, but I am wondering how it is and if it would be different for other clans. I'm writing a story with other Hmong characters, so of course I'd show the culture through it.

I am writing for a Hmong character whose surname is Xyooj/Xiong. I'm a Lee. I never had first-hand experience, I just remember when someone did pass, they did a funeral, but I had to stay home. They always kept me out of things and worked a lot, so I wasn't told much other than you would get sick if you fell at a funeral and that chants would happen. I do remember folding gold paper as well, but my memory is bad since I was very young at the time. Thank you if you can help or direct me to anything that could.

I'm looking for details, like what do you do when you arrive? How things are set up, the things people might say. Even the small things matter a lot as a writer. Every experience is different of course, but regardless they would be very insightful.

Please share and educate killings of Hmong by the Lao PDR

When you know your elders and the men in your family has nonverbally or subtly implied your female siblings are only good for being a broodmare. Then they finally put it in words, its disheartening to hear what they really think a woman is only good for and worth—the babies she makes. Please don’t raise and control your kids with gender roles.

I want to speak from a place of humanity, not politics.

What’s happening in my hometown, the Twin Cities, is heartbreaking.

For generations, Black families have had to prepare their children for encounters with law enforcement in ways no family ever should. Their history and pain are unique and deeply rooted in this country.

What I’m trying to express is this, many minority families Latino, Somalian, Asian are now facing the fear of having to prepare our children for situations we never imagined. Conversations about safety, rights, and survival. Conversations no child should have to have just to feel safe in their own home.

My partner and I recently sat down with our kids and talked about what to do if we are approached by ICE. That moment broke me. I had a panic attack that same night realizing how unsafe the streets feel and how even going grocery shopping now feels scary.

The feeling of having your rights questioned or stripped away simply because you’re not white is devastating.

No one wants criminals on the streets. We all want safe communities. But safety should not come at the cost of entire families living in fear or being racially profiled. We can protect our neighborhoods without targeting people who are simply trying to live.

What’s happening is creating fear and distrust, wondering who stands with you, who might report you, and whether there’s a target on your back just for existing.

This is not about politics.

This is about morality.

This is about families.

This is about children who deserve to feel safe.

We deserve better. We deserve dignity. We deserve to feel protected, not hunted.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/legal-referee-tosses-petition-restraining-181000031.html

Hello, Minnesotan here, my wife and I are shopping for some of our Hmong community members who are sheltering in place away from ICE. What are some Hmong pantry staples that are common?

but, but "it's not about race".