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During the New Year's celebration, Hmong dress in traditional clothing and enjoy traditional food, dance, music, bullfights, and other forms of entertainment. Hmong New Year celebrations follow ethnic traditions and culture, and may also serve to educate those who have an interest in Hmong tradition.
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Hmong . Hmong , Mountain-dwelling peoples of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand who speak Hmong-Mien languages. There are also émigré communities in the U.S., France, and elsewhere.
The Hmong are an ethnic group of people with specific language and culture. The Hmong originally came from China with over 4,000 years of history. Some Hmong left China to Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Burma beginning in the early 1800’s as a result of land expansion by the Chinese government.
The terms Hmong (IPA: [m̥ɔ̃ŋ]) and Mong ( [mɔ̃ŋ]) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of southern China. There, they remain one of the largest sub-groups in the Miao (Chinese:苗族) minzu (nationality) along with other related ethnic minorities.
Hmong Americans ( RPA: Hmoob Mes Kas, Pahawh Hmong: " 𖬌𖬣𖬵 𖬉𖬲𖬦 𖬗𖬲 ") are Americans of Hmong ancestry. Many Hmong Americans immigrated to the United States as refugees in the late 1970s. Over half of the Hmong population from Laos left the country, or attempted to leave, in 1975, at the culmination of the Laotian Civil War .
Jun 8, 2020 · The Hmong community, which hails primarily from Southeast Asia and parts of China, were largely recruited to fight on behalf of the U.S. in the “Secret War” in Laos in the 1960s. The move was ...
Jul 7, 2004 · In 1961, the U.S. government began recruiting Hmong people in Laos to fight in a secret part of the larger Vietnam War. At the end of the war, in 1975, the U.S. retreated, leaving Laos under Communist control, and the Hmong population was targeted for genocide. Many of them fled to neighboring countries, and a significant number sought asylum ...
