Fascinating facts about Hmong culture

Fascinating facts about Hmong culture.

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  • @100newkid
    @100newkid9 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure this is the first person I've ever heard pronounce the word Hmong, correctly... Points! :)

  • @KidDynamite93
    @KidDynamite939 жыл бұрын

    RESPECT. You know a lot about our people. You basically went through like 30 to 40 percent of our history. I thank you my friend.

  • @collinsmith7572

    @collinsmith7572

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kid Dynamite ;)

  • @jackyang485
    @jackyang4859 жыл бұрын

    I love this it makes me so happy to hear about Hmong people

  • @xouyang8672
    @xouyang86728 жыл бұрын

    hmong culture is a hidden culture. also a beautiful culture, it needs to be revealed more.

  • @shiannexiong9940
    @shiannexiong99408 жыл бұрын

    "WOW"I really respect that u know alot about our hmong culture and learn to speak and write in hmong too love all ur video THANKS....

  • @senioryangvang
    @senioryangvang9 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully said the part about taking care of our elders when they are gone. This is the traditional spiritual system that ensures prosperity for everyone. If you worship your ancestors then they will offer protection. The dilemma you spoke about is sad because if we break the cycle then it would mean a departure of familial piety and we would not be able to be with each other according to belief. We may not agree but at least we understand each other. Thank you for your understanding.

  • @KongLee_21
    @KongLee_219 жыл бұрын

    that is really true...we dont get credited/recognition. Gets me mad but what can we do.

  • @npaujlis-angel8889
    @npaujlis-angel88898 жыл бұрын

    wow you know alot about our culture more then I do. my dad serve for the U.S. CIA and told the same story.

  • @SHINWAICHI
    @SHINWAICHI8 жыл бұрын

    I believe that there is a God but I also believe in my ancestors. I find it funny how when the subject of religion comes up, between someone, who believes in Christianity, and me, a Shaman believer, the other person isn't willing to respect what I believe and leave good enough alone. I don't try to convert them into Shamanism but they are always trying to convert me. So I'm surprise that you actually take the time to understand how our culture works and why we believe the things we believe. Thank you for that.

  • @noyauwu5806
    @noyauwu58067 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much! I bet every Hmong person would be so proud of you! You respect our culture! As we should respect you! I feel like shedding tears! TSAUG

  • @January256
    @January2569 жыл бұрын

    Thank you brother for explaining this!!!!

  • @LifeyApp

    @LifeyApp

    9 жыл бұрын

    January256 Thanks for watching!

  • @lynvng
    @lynvng9 жыл бұрын

    It's nice to have a different ethnicity to learn about the hmong people. You markdown all the points in the hmong history, love it. And the way you pronounce Hmong is the right way (: You're awesome for knowing and learning.

  • @kevkajsiab2326
    @kevkajsiab23267 жыл бұрын

    wow! Thank you Collin. You are amazing! I cried when explained about the Vietnam. it's true. you're very inspiring!! I hope you know that we, hmong people appreciate you a lot Ua tsaug ntau.

  • @amvamv2489
    @amvamv24897 жыл бұрын

    I love the gospel. I am so glad the Lord brought us here to know about him. This country is a great opportunity for my people, but learning about God is the best part. I am so glad to have God in my life. No matter what rich or poor or what challenges come my way, I will always have God.

  • @stevenxiong3133
    @stevenxiong31338 жыл бұрын

    thank you for sharing. appreciate your appreciation for Hmong culture. God bless you. -Nyiaj

  • @chiminyang2000
    @chiminyang20008 жыл бұрын

    Thx bro I'm hmong and u respect them and im really proud bless you

  • @celnamusic
    @celnamusic8 жыл бұрын

    Hey, brother! Thanks for uploading your videos!

  • @moonalight7838
    @moonalight78389 жыл бұрын

    Oh i love the way you explain our culture and our life in the past it very sad

  • @mbmarch5662
    @mbmarch56628 жыл бұрын

    You are amazing. Thank you so much for understanding.

  • @findme8810
    @findme88105 жыл бұрын

    Much respect and love for understanding us Hmong people...😉

  • @tamtam25x62
    @tamtam25x629 жыл бұрын

    Thank you your so very kind! My parents they had to live in the mountains and the Americans brights them for and water. They moved here for safety and freedom but they really wish to go back to see their old home. They are around 50 years old and very successful. I'm glad that our race helped and that you guys helped us because if you guys didn't I might have never been born! Thanks for telling and embracing our culture, your very kind! May God bless you!

  • @kvue2807
    @kvue28075 жыл бұрын

    I congratulate you bro,you cannot explain it any better than that. Mad respect bro you know my culture and everything that we love now we lost it all and I'm glad you can tell it to the world........

  • @tubleejthoj1535
    @tubleejthoj15355 жыл бұрын

    hey bro, I m so proud of you man. Please don't mind if I ask you a question. are you part of Hmong family? just wondering brother because you know hmong too good. anyways welcome to the Hmomng community brother

  • @leiasclaws1373
    @leiasclaws13733 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate your knowledge and sharing about Hmong culture...you're great 🙏🙏

  • @brendanthoj
    @brendanthoj7 жыл бұрын

    thank you for learning our culture and feeling simpathy for my ancestors

  • @misseshua
    @misseshua9 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this.

  • @sheilanorlund90
    @sheilanorlund907 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting..... although my last name is Norlund, my Hmong birth name is Mei Chong Vaj (Vang). The videos were pretty cool and I am glad you got the opportunity to learn about the Hmong culture. This is funny because I never met or know a person that is not Hmong, can actually speak Hmong. Majority of the time people don't even know what Hmong is. So, yeah, good for you.

  • @anonknomiss3987
    @anonknomiss39879 жыл бұрын

    Pretty interesting. God bless ya!

  • @MsRichMANTOY
    @MsRichMANTOY9 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. This voice from...Hmong Thai land.

  • @harmonyyangmoua6376
    @harmonyyangmoua63768 жыл бұрын

    Omg you know alot thank you for explaining this

  • @NIYA424
    @NIYA4243 жыл бұрын

    Respect. You knew a lot about our people and history.

  • @frostydragonoid4453
    @frostydragonoid44534 жыл бұрын

    Thanks you for all the respect you give us!

  • @maiyang8492
    @maiyang84929 жыл бұрын

    Family ties in a traditional family (not Christian family) is very important in a Hmong family. Filial duty is the first thing we are taught when we are born. Sons are encourage to learn their ancestors ritual as every clan has a different way of performing every ritual. The structure of a Hmong family is that everyone bears responsibility for every member of the family or clan. For an example, I am from the Yang clan but if I was to be drop anywhere in the country, all I have to do was look for another Yang Hmong clan and I can rest assured that they will assist me in every way possible. That's the great thing about being Hmong btw. In regards to traditional Hmong religion, there is a God. If you study Hmong Shamanisms, Shi Yi was the God who gave Hmong the power of spiritual healing. We call the higher beings or gods: TUS TSWV NTUG. But Hmong shamanism do not believe in one supreme God like Christians or Muslims. From what I've learned, every Hmong New Year, the shaman that performs any ritual to heal a person by use of a sacrifice to gain the soul back from the dark energies, releases the soul of those animals to be reborn hence that's why Shamans takes weeks, sometimes longer to rest and do not perform or heal anyone as their spiritual guides are release for the New Year as well. The only reason why you would feel setback by why some Hmong people will not convert is because converting means they will abandon their traditions which ties in a lot with their culture. Hmong Christians nowadays would not join or participate in anything that does not involved Christ. They view Christianity is a supreme religion and will not halt to cultural practices even if it's a family member or someone close to them.

  • @LifeyApp

    @LifeyApp

    9 жыл бұрын

    mai yang thanks for sharing all that information- that's very interesting!

  • @jenniferlee8709
    @jenniferlee87094 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for talking about the Hmong people. One of the reasons they tend to stay more at certain State is because families stay together.

  • @4evryc
    @4evryc4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you and proud of you for telling this story! I’m so lucky my parents came in 77’ to Maryland, first wave of people to come without sponsers or something else. I’m also grateful my parents were already Christians. So I grew up living a Christian life.

  • @leetuathao
    @leetuathao4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome job. Very informative.

  • @QAIBchongo
    @QAIBchongo8 жыл бұрын

    How this guy know so much about me n Idk anything about him

  • @collinsmith7572

    @collinsmith7572

    8 жыл бұрын

    +ronnie vang ;)

  • @vagpounder5614
    @vagpounder56144 жыл бұрын

    I'm Hmong and I'm making this man an honorary Hmong. He understands our people better than most of today's Hmong youth.

  • @amvamv2489
    @amvamv24897 жыл бұрын

    Actually, Hmong do have a God. They do believe in a higher being. They don't know his name, but they call him either the Heaven above or the King of Heaven in their language. The only time they call on him is when Shamanism doesn't work and there is no other resort. Other than that, they don't know his name. But being Christian, I am glad I now know his name.

  • @paoleechannel2405
    @paoleechannel24055 жыл бұрын

    You are doing a good hero and model to other brother. Everything we will do, we need to know their culture before to end up with death path. Example: if whoever want to be come us citizenship, they need to know America history and culture, if we want to be Buddhist, we need to know their culture as well. I am proud of you are the first missionary bring this up to alive in earth and everyone need to respect and good friendship.

  • @kickazz2730
    @kickazz2730 Жыл бұрын

    Speaking facts💯% just found this channel.

  • @mengciong6155
    @mengciong61559 жыл бұрын

    Actually there are more than eighteen clans, but no one really knows that: especially people in America. EX) Si, Pe, Kwm, Choj Then there are the Qhua clans EX) the Qhua last name for Xyooj would be Mob I think Qhua last names are old versions of the current clans?... Go to an old Hmong person and tell them about the qhua clans if they are aware of them then they will be greatly impressed.

  • @collinsmith7572

    @collinsmith7572

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Meng Ciong Dude that's super interesting! Message me more about that!

  • @Kirito-fu2uj
    @Kirito-fu2uj8 жыл бұрын

    Dam dude I'm Hmong and I didn't even know about this thanks for exampling this.

  • @DIMONDGIRL860
    @DIMONDGIRL8608 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for telling our story. My parents, 2 older sisters, and paternal grandmother were also refugees of the Vietnam war and were later sponsored by a church from Lexington, Massachusetts. The family running the church helped my family move to Connecticut. More relatives arrived in the next couple of waves and moved into Minnesota, California, and Michigan. I was lucky to be born in CT. It's sad when I hear the stories from my surviving family of the terror, hiding, running, swimming across the river, and loss of loved ones. :'(

  • @b1tchpl3as33
    @b1tchpl3as335 жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏

  • @OfficiallIcy
    @OfficiallIcy4 жыл бұрын

    Hi I'm tyler and I'm hmong too I live in MO now and my grandparents are survivors from the hunters and they are from Thailand. Also my grandparents said that they had to travel from laos to thailand.

  • @LG-nh4bs
    @LG-nh4bs4 жыл бұрын

    He is really on point with his Hmong language

  • @hmongpeoples1765
    @hmongpeoples17654 жыл бұрын

    I love H'mong people

  • @corneliusyang1542
    @corneliusyang15427 жыл бұрын

    I'm Hmong and I eat with my hands too

  • @Tapinthor
    @Tapinthor6 жыл бұрын

    Ill respect u im hmong to

  • @demeterher7900
    @demeterher79008 жыл бұрын

    Can I use this video for a project?

  • @LifeyApp

    @LifeyApp

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Demeter Her sure! Feel free to send us a link after it's up , if you like! Best wishes! ~Alex

  • @Catladycatherine
    @Catladycatherine9 жыл бұрын

    ... well i'm hmong and my dad's mom is a shaman and my mom is catholic and works at a private school and studies the bible and I believe in both religions. (just because this country is freedom of religion) :) All religions are real, and even if something wasn't part of your culture, it wouldn't hurt to try out something new and see if you liked it or not.

  • @justinyang6521
    @justinyang65217 жыл бұрын

    I am fucking proud of this guy.

  • @xaifishing1104
    @xaifishing11049 жыл бұрын

    Hmong people do Belive in God but only very few people do Like me I got to church

  • @alee6966

    @alee6966

    8 жыл бұрын

    Nowadays There R many Hmongs who R Christians especially, and there R some who follow the Catholic Church

  • @ohitsjustme.890

    @ohitsjustme.890

    8 жыл бұрын

    +A Lee so basically we're losing our culture slowly??

  • @TheBackupUp
    @TheBackupUp5 жыл бұрын

    Minnesota ya

  • @Kevin03341
    @Kevin033419 жыл бұрын

    My family is christians im one too

  • @TheBackupUp
    @TheBackupUp5 жыл бұрын

    Lol i never knew any hmong people from Carolina but i do in north Carolina ,Minnesota, Alaska, and Wisconsin lol

  • @kvue2807
    @kvue28075 жыл бұрын

    I want some PHO'

  • @astumekei9610
    @astumekei96108 жыл бұрын

    yes my grandpa was in a war to

  • @adamyang7304
    @adamyang73048 жыл бұрын

    This is true our history is sad

  • @TheHmongWarrior
    @TheHmongWarrior6 ай бұрын

    My Hmong people called God, “The Sky”. It is said that, the Sky sees everything and it is very low”. Meaning humans are within reach, so do good and be good.

  • @adamyang7304
    @adamyang73048 жыл бұрын

    I learned this from my grandma I she was a refugee and she said that some people would have to drug their own kid (kill) because they drew too much attention because they were hunted and baby's cry and they attracted the people who were hunting them so they would kill their kids and think that when they get to Thai land they would get new kids 😔

  • @lexsaovang1796
    @lexsaovang17963 жыл бұрын

    I am hmong white

  • @jordanmao2315
    @jordanmao23159 жыл бұрын

    my favorite white boy

  • @DoWnAzZAzN
    @DoWnAzZAzN9 жыл бұрын

    also don't be a woman and speak out against the men... yes, i'm a hmong woman. you should live with the women and see it through their eyes.

  • @kazuac
    @kazuac8 жыл бұрын

    i feel like there are a lot of dos and donts. Like a man should never enter a married women's home with out there husband present. lots of dos and dont's for women also etc etc

  • @b1tchpl3as33
    @b1tchpl3as335 жыл бұрын

    We do believe in god and we did have a culture but we just lost it somehow

  • @aurorah4203
    @aurorah42035 жыл бұрын

    Hl

  • @anfboi08
    @anfboi08 Жыл бұрын

    Can we donate utensils to this group of people who are treated so bad by major surrounding populations

  • @nkaujzoolauj
    @nkaujzoolauj9 жыл бұрын

    Church is not our Hmong culture, we have to keep our Hmong culture alive. I proud who I was. We believe in our ancestor, it means our ancestors are god. The reason why there was shaman because long ago, ghost and human lived together, human and ghost could not get along. Many problem between ghost and human, so ghost went to ask god to give them the right to freedom from human. Then god told ghost to played ace with human, which they throw ace to human eyes. After that human could not see ghost, but ghost could see and hear human. When human could not see ghost, ghost took human's daughter to be their wife. That will made human's daughter died, human could not do anything about it. So human went to ask god about this, god said that god will sent his son shaman to help the human. If human know or see that their son or daughter got sick from ghost then human can do the shaman thing to protect themselves from ghost. Long story about Hmong people, but I just tell a little. Hmong people was God's son and daughter. That why we could not disappear on this earth. Hmong people was the first people appear on earth, but got killed and hunted by others people from generation to generation, that why we forgot our real religion and lost.

  • @collinsmith7572

    @collinsmith7572

    9 жыл бұрын

    I never said church is Hmong culture.

  • @collinsmith7572

    @collinsmith7572

    9 жыл бұрын

    On top of that, saying Hmong culture in regards to religious beliefs is the wrong usage of the word culture as well. It should be Hmong religion, but considering the fact that it has been so heavily misused people have just adopted it anyways and when referring to Hmong religion we say culture instead. Culture is not religion. That's my rant, I'll get off my soapbox now.

  • @Phylone

    @Phylone

    9 жыл бұрын

    Kia Lor , good job to explained that.

  • @amythao819

    @amythao819

    8 жыл бұрын

    kia lor did you say church is not our hmong culture?. it can be, rethink it over. if you dont understand what he's trying to say then rewatch it or reread it over again little boy.

  • @snowfairylucia6222
    @snowfairylucia62229 жыл бұрын

    Blah Hmong people been slaves, beheaded, looked down, and taxed heavily by the Chinese government over the centuries. The truth is Hmong people had built pyramid out of stones, smithed metal, performed gymnastics, and lived in a very fertile land. Most part of the culture is lost and burned lol.. If you ask me the Hmong culture is corrupted due to the forceful intermix of the Han Chinese, which created a ton of betrayal. Anyways, my parents are Hmong and they tell me to just adapt a Christian lifestyle. The Hmong history is full of grief almost like the Jewish ppl. XD