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On the second day, the family of the bride prepares a second wedding feast at their home, where the couple will be married (Noj tshoob). Hmong marriage customs differ slightly based on cultural subdivisions within the global Hmong community, but all require the exchange of a bride price from the groom’s family to the bride’s family.
The Twin Cities has the highest concentration of Hmong residents in America, with over 70,000 individuals belonging to this community, predominantly residing in and around St. Paul. The museum is part of a larger organization, the Hmong Cultural Center, which was established in 1998.
This mental health problem has been attributed to traumatic past experiences and problems adjusting to life in the United States. [82] Gender roles play an integral factor for the mental health of Hmong women. Gender construct of Hmong women, traditionally, socially and politically, have historically been oppressive and marginalizing.
But many younger Hmong haven’t learned the spiritual significance of cultural traditions, even popular ones like the Thanksgiving weekend dance, music and craft performances in one of St. Paul ...
“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
Thousands of Hmong community members gathered at Cal Expo this weekend to celebrate the Sacramento Hmong New Year festival, an annual cultural celebration in the city with the second-largest Hmong ...
I suggest that a mental health section be added under the "Community Issues" subheading. Another suggestion would be to create a completely new section on mental health. This is a particularly significant issue for the Hmong American community, which has been postulated to be resultant from PTSD, depression, and/or stress from emigration.