TheGurlo22
sarNie Adult
First of all, I believe in Shamanism. So I totally agree with this passage down here. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THIS?? ALL THE HMONG PEOPLE OUT THERE. This passage actually made me angry..
http://mozemoua.com/2011/01/19/hmong-culture-is-slowly-fading/
"I don’t know if this blog post is considered blogging or venting but I think I’ll say it’s both. So this weekend I went to a cousin of mine’s wedding, it was a traditional Hmong wedding. It was a normal traditional Hmong wedding with the Me-koob and everyone else. When I got there I was looking around to find work to do (my mom had always made sure we make ourselves useful so it’s expected of my sister Hlee and I to find work to do and help as needed). As I was around helping, one of the older cousin who I call sister in law was complaining that we shouldn’t do traditional Hmong weddings anymore, we should go the “easy” way and do an American wedding (Christian wedding, thus she is a Christian). I just stood around and nodded my head since I didn’t want to speak my mind since she is older and I am only considered a child, but the important thing is, I didn’t want to be “rude”.
I found it very offensive that she kept telling me that we need to change into the modern world and forget about all these traditional things. I really wanted to tell her that if she’s unhappy with the traditional weddings and ways we have then she shouldn’t had came to the wedding, she knew it was a Hmong wedding to begin with. Hmong weddings are a few long events and process. There are certain things that we have to do a certain way or it’ll be offensive to the other side of the family, there are other things that we have to cook a certain ways and clean it a certain ways and etc.
I understand that the world is changing, but our culture is still our culture and it should remain the same. So if we forget all about our culture and fully adapt the American culture, what will that make us? We are no longer Hmong because we had forgotten our own culture, our own history and everything that we are. Yes it’s nice to be modernized, but what makes us if we forget all about our tradition and culture. I believe our tradition and culture is what makes us who we are and what makes us stand out above others.
I know it is coming which I wish it won’t but I know that in the next few years, once our parent’s generation is all gone our culture will be forgotten and everyone will start to adapt the American culture forgetting who they are what their ancestors had done and how they had struggle to get where they are. They’ll forget how Hmong weddings are, Hmong funerals are, Hmong anything. All will sooner or later be gone which I would hate to see. I’ve already notice that it is slowly fading away."
http://mozemoua.com/2011/01/19/hmong-culture-is-slowly-fading/
"I don’t know if this blog post is considered blogging or venting but I think I’ll say it’s both. So this weekend I went to a cousin of mine’s wedding, it was a traditional Hmong wedding. It was a normal traditional Hmong wedding with the Me-koob and everyone else. When I got there I was looking around to find work to do (my mom had always made sure we make ourselves useful so it’s expected of my sister Hlee and I to find work to do and help as needed). As I was around helping, one of the older cousin who I call sister in law was complaining that we shouldn’t do traditional Hmong weddings anymore, we should go the “easy” way and do an American wedding (Christian wedding, thus she is a Christian). I just stood around and nodded my head since I didn’t want to speak my mind since she is older and I am only considered a child, but the important thing is, I didn’t want to be “rude”.
I found it very offensive that she kept telling me that we need to change into the modern world and forget about all these traditional things. I really wanted to tell her that if she’s unhappy with the traditional weddings and ways we have then she shouldn’t had came to the wedding, she knew it was a Hmong wedding to begin with. Hmong weddings are a few long events and process. There are certain things that we have to do a certain way or it’ll be offensive to the other side of the family, there are other things that we have to cook a certain ways and clean it a certain ways and etc.
I understand that the world is changing, but our culture is still our culture and it should remain the same. So if we forget all about our culture and fully adapt the American culture, what will that make us? We are no longer Hmong because we had forgotten our own culture, our own history and everything that we are. Yes it’s nice to be modernized, but what makes us if we forget all about our tradition and culture. I believe our tradition and culture is what makes us who we are and what makes us stand out above others.
I know it is coming which I wish it won’t but I know that in the next few years, once our parent’s generation is all gone our culture will be forgotten and everyone will start to adapt the American culture forgetting who they are what their ancestors had done and how they had struggle to get where they are. They’ll forget how Hmong weddings are, Hmong funerals are, Hmong anything. All will sooner or later be gone which I would hate to see. I’ve already notice that it is slowly fading away."