Regenia Un
A02
Week2
In Hmong Does Not
Mean Free: The Miseducation of Hmong Americans, the author and our teaching
assistant Kaozong N. Mouavangsou talks about the lack of education among Hmong
communities, and how Hmong people merely think that education must lead to success, thus eventually leads to a gap between Hmong males and females, and even AP exam takers and non-AP exam takers. Before finishing this reading
material, I know little about the Hmong culture and people, but Kaozong’s words and interviews with Hmong families effectively allows us to
understand more about their perspectives. Also, I started to
understand the misconceptions Hmong people have and also the fact that the
US educational system is not ready to teach people of colors.
When I read that Hmong parents pushed their children to excel in academics although they themselves did not obtain high educational attainments, I related it to my own family. Both of parents did not finish high school due to family difficulties so my brother and I are the first generation of college students in my whole family. Since my brother and I were little, we were forced to get no less than 90 in all exams. I clearly remembered that I got a 87 for my math exam in my grade 11, and then my mother blamed me and did not talk to me for three days. I thought I did something really evil at that time, but when I thought about this recently, and found out that it was unreasonable and a little bit hilarious. Hence, I started to think deeper on my mother's education from her parents and Chinese culture. Therefore, the question I have for this week is how to communicate with the older generation whose has those ideas deeply rooted in their mind.
The material that I want to share is a YouTube video produced by Kevjumba in which Papajumba, Kevjumba's father, keeps on asking his son to take more classes and even reminded him not to quit school when he is almost dying.
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