Hmong Community on Child Maltreatment Child maltreatment happens to any child regardless of their ethnicity groups, age, education, financial status, or living condition. Among the race/ethnicities in the United States, Asian has the lowest rate of living in poverty and the lowest rate of child abuse (IRP, 2012). Understanding the impact that poverty has on child maltreatment challenged the writer to look at a certain ethnicity group. The Hmong community is a group of people that can relate to both poverty and child maltreatment. Studies had shown that poverty has an impact on child abuse, yet there are not many reports made from the Hmong community in regards to child maltreatment. Although the numbers are low for Asians’ poverty rate and …show more content…
In the Hmong culture, parents and children do not communicate with one another on a daily basis. Traditionally, Asian families may not be as verbal and openly affectionate toward their children as families are expected to be in a standard American family (CACF, 2011). In a YouTube video called “Asian Parents React to I Love You” is a video about college Asian students away from home, discussing about the last time they said the words “I Love You” to their parents. The video showed 3 out of 5 people never had said “I love you to their parents before. One of the male students said “I never said I love you to my parents, and that’s probably because they never said it to me, so love was more shown through actions (2014).” The Hmong community definitely can relate to this video because the Hmongs like many Asian descents are not expressive towards their feelings to one another. Even though the video sent out a positive message about how important communication is, it also shows a different aspect of the parent and their child’s way of living. By understanding that concept of the minimal communication in most Hmong families, communication may sometimes lead to confrontation and arguments that leads to emotional and verbal abuse. Research shows behavioral problems and at risk behaviors are less likely to occur when families identify as having a positive communication and more likely to occur than they have …show more content…
However, the sexual abuse that will be discussed is something that has been in the Hmong community for centuries of years. The traditional Hmong weddings and marriages are not the typical marriages that you see. In the Hmong culture, girls as young as 11 to ages 17 are getting married among their age group or in many of the cases, young girls are marrying men who are in their late 30s to late 50s. In the culture, it is acceptable to be married as young as 11 and it is acceptable to be married to someone older. Many Hmong men would marry these girls by trying to lure them in with money and to fulfill their needs. Most of these men will promise to support and provide for the girl’s family in exchange to being his wife (Moua, 2017). Most Hmong parents would agree to the marriage and allow the marriage to happen. That is because traditionally, girls can be married at ages 11-17, older men will take the opportunity to force the girls into marriage by abducting them. Abducting a bride has been a part of the Hmong culture and it is acceptable to do. Parents have the right to fight for their daughter, but in many cases, parents do not. Most parents will allow the marriage and will be willing to give up their daughter. It is a practice that has been in the Hmong culture for a very long time that it became acceptable for parent to accept this older man as their
Alice presents the idea that the relationship between Chinese children and their parents is one quite different from that of Australian children and their parents. ‘These were questions Chinese children never asked their parents.’ (Page 144) She suggests that different etiquette and customs are undertaken and that the bond between them differs. Alice alludes to the idea that these differences in the home are the foundation for the differences Alice perceives socially.
Hmong identities are often influenced by three major factors that dictate patriarchal gender roles in Hmong families and communities. The importance of family, marriage, and roles by birth has significant contribution in shaping Hmong cultural expectations for men and women. The generational conflicts between these factors have influenced how men and women are expected to behave, but education has slowly paved the way for gender equality as Hmong has always found a way to change their ways of life in accordance to every nation they have come across (Vang, 2016). Ngo (2011) found that Hmong cultural values create a sense of oppression for Hmong girls as they are expected to be submissive while the boys are expected to be decisive. This
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down opened my eyes to a new perspective of embracing cultural diversity as I compared the Hmong culture to my own. In today’s society, everyone has that sense of ethnocentrism. Most of society takes for granted how blessed they are. For example, my culture typically lives in nice neighborhoods and areas that are not primarily secluded. We take pride in the houses we build and the amenities in them, such as toilets and refrigerators.
The Hmong community in Aubigny-sur-Nère, France: the case study of a successful dialogue with the local authority to recognize the Hmong cultural identity. Introduction : The Hmong community is originally an ethnic group from China who, following persecutions, moved to Indochina (French colony), to settle in what will become later Laos. Several years later, the Hmong were “forced” to take part in the Indochina wars alongside with the French (1946-1954), and the American Secret War (1962-1975) to respectively fight against the Japanese imperialism and the “Vietnamization".
Showing authority and love can be portrayed by parents in various
Ethnomedicine has been historically defined as any healthcare system not present in the West; now, ethnomedicine is defined as the any cultural beliefs which surround healing in a community. The Hmong—an ethnic group located within present day Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand—have a particular system of ethnomedicine which is described as personalistic. Within a personalistic system, an active agent is the underlying cause of a disease—or etiology. Humans can be the cause of the disease as well as a number of non-human and supernatural agents. When Lia Lee began seizing at three months of age, her parents understood that the active agent which caused her epilepsy was a door slamming which caused her soul to fly from her body, an illness called quag
Growing up as Hmong-American youth, I was raised by a father who joined the military when he was twelve years old. He was forced into the Vietnam war fighting for safety, peace, and a relationship with the United States of America. Through this military influence and discipline at such a young age, my father accepted the military lifestyle. He carried it over from the Vietnam war to my family today. Growing up, my father was always strict on me, especially when it came to my appearances and education.
Sexual violence can affect anyone. There is no end all be all strategy to avoid any and all sexual violence. However, studies have shown that some people are more likely to be affected by sexual violence than others. Typically, the people most likely to be at risk of sexual violence are people who are disenfranchised, in prison where a whole different cultural dynamic exists and people who can’t care for themselves. Just a few of these groups are Native American women, male prisoners, and children.
Jonathan Metts Incest and Abuse in African American Households Despite centuries of change in African American society, inecst and physical abuse continue to be a prevalent problem in many black households. The number of lives and families affected by these types of abuse is truly astounding and appalling. Perhaps the most appalling element of these situations is the fact that it continues to occur frequently today.
Language plays an important role in one’s culture. Not only is it used for every day communication, it is also used to pass down stories in some cultures. In The Latehomecomer, the language difference between the Hmong and Americans causes problems for the Yang family. However, the Hmong language is very important to their people. They use it to pass down stories, which is an important part of their culture.
Hmong birth practices are very interesting and very different from American culture. Their births are usually at home and sometimes the woman is alone. Women labor in silence and catch their own babies as they are being delivered. Mrs. Lee delivered all of her babies by herself before coming to America. In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down after birth practices are also different.
Since ancient times Hmong people as been around. So what is Hmong? Are they Chinese or Mongolian? Most people think Hmong are either Chinese or Mongolia For example the word Hmong is very similar to the word Mong in Mongolian.
Loving v. Virginia (1967) was a monumental Supreme Court case which allowed interracial marriage which was illegal in the state of Virginia at the time. Due to all the hard and tireless work of those civil rights activists’ interracial marriage is now legal on a national level. Although, these are great strides, there still seems to be some difficulty within families who prefer for their children to stay within their own race. I, among many others, are the ones who question the “normal” relationships and step outside our own race and explore the world of those with different cultures. We will be exploring how my relationship, and those of my participant (Zhao), are different and similar in terms of our communication not only within the relationship,
Hmong Culture The Hmong primarily originated from the “mountainous areas of China, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos” (Purnell, 2014, pg. 236) and immigrated to the United States in 1975 after the Vietnam War. Primarily refugees from Laos, the Hmong people began immigrating to the United States in large numbers “after communist forces came to power in their native country.” (Bankston, 2014, pg. 332) Mainly settling in California, the Hmong began to be dispersed by American refugee settlement agencies across the country in the 1980s, also settling in Wisconsin and Michigan.
It does not indicate how many people are living in extreme poverty or those who earn the most money in a country. There are also a few issues when using statistics that have been provided by the government or companies, the main problem is that you do not know what their motives are and that if the information that they published is accurate. Though these methods present their