Gabriel Yap A02 Week 6

Gabriel Yap
ASA A02
Week 6

In Kaozong N. Mouavangsou's article "Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of and by Hmong Americans, the author analyzes how Hmong families find education as the path to financial stability, and how this mindset transferred to their children as well. The families believe that education is a sequence of steps that lead to success. This sequence being getting an education, find a good job, then to simply live a financially stable life. Studies and interviews were conducted to further prove that their idea is relevant among their culture in America. Hmong are becoming an underrepresented group in America. There are institutional ways that divide Hmong American students and it causes a negative effect on their education

The lines that stuck out most to me was when the text read "Loss of home language can have significant impacts on self-identity (Portes & Rumbaut, 2001). I can observe this idea when I'm with other Asian people who do not speak their parent's language. When one cannot speak the language of their ancestors, I feel like it becomes hard to prove that you are of that race. Sometimes other Asian people would even say that you aren't "ethnic" enough, which is pretty detrimental to ones' sense of identity.

Source:
Mouavangsou, K. “Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of and by Hmong Americans”. Fight the Tower. Rutgers University Press.

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     Morales, Jonathan. “Study Is First to Look at Challenges Facing Hmong Students.” Study Is First to Look at Challenges Facing Hmong Students, 11 May 2018, www.csus.edu/news/articles/2018/5/11/Study-is-first-to-look-at-challenges-facing-Hmong-students.shtml.