QUOTE(Ehuang @ Feb 18 2007, 03:54 PM) [snapback]4876663[/snapback]
I never said that I speak for every individual, so please stop putting words into my mouth. If you don't believe, go and ask your elders. According to our beliefs, our way of life, you only need to be 50% to be pure Hmong, as long as that 50% is from your father. The old saying goes "you are what your father is." Perhaps you live where there's not a lot of Hmong people or perhaps you're just ignorant. I suggest you go and visit a large Hmong community and see for yourself. And if you're ever in my neck of the woods, I'll be more than glad to arrange a meeting for you with mixed Hmong people from both sides so you can get an understanding of what it's like. A person whose father is Hmong and mother is a different ethnic/race is treated and embraced fully by the Hmong community, whereas someone whose mother is Hmong and father is a different ethnic/race is completely shunned by the Hmong community. Like I stated in my earlier post, I have nieces and nephews who are Hmong-Spaniard (their mother is Spaniard) and even though my nieces and nephews do not speak nor understand a single word of Hmong, wherever they go Hmong people always say "Ob tus menyuam Hmoob no mas cas yuav ntxiv hlub ua luaj li os." However it's the opposite with another one of my nieces, whose father is Mekas dawb. Wherever she goes, Hmong people are always calling her "Mekas dawb" even though she's fluent in Hmong, knows kwv txhiaj and has lived her entire life in Hmong communities and is married to a Hmong man.
Our Hmong society is a patrilineal society/culture. That is why we belong to our father's clan rather than our mother's. That is why when we teev xwm kab, we only do it for our ancestors from our father's side. That is why when our fathers ntog pob ntoo, he only invites ancestor spirits from his clan to the table to feast. And when you look at a drawn Hmong family tree, only men are listed... unless a daughter had died before being married, then she also appears on the family tree. Koj txiv yog dabtsi ces koj yog li ntawm thiab.
Yog tias koj xav paub ntxiv tshaj no ces koj abtsi mus nug koj cov coj noj coj haus, koj cov neeg laus, lawv thiaj li paub qhov tseeb.
Please stop that.... Your implying that your speaking for the whole majority... that our ethnic have the same belief as you...
just stop. I wasn't putting words in your mouth I was implying what you wrote in your statement... You quoted that My parents have the same belief as you, Our culture and etc etc..... again.... Not every Hmong individual thinks like you.... (Heck my dad is fricking baised when it comes to mix....) If your not speaking for every individual quit implying like you are.
Oh geez... don't get so offended now... to go call me ignorant.... You obviously have no idea what in the blue blaze's you are doing.... You quote So long as your father is Hmong you are 100% Hmong.... but yet you fail to look from the outside point of view.... of what others will say.... and what others believe... again please quit acting like everyone gonna agree with you... just stop... its sad.... that's not call being ignorant... that call looking it from a point perspective... do not attempt to Categorize people Opinion just because their isn't the same as yours....

Dude I'm from Mpls, MN, Wi, and CA are the most populated state with Hmong Population... don't be so judgemental.... Sure I'll be glad to meet you one day with individual from my side and there point of view on Mix Hmong, The question... remains will they consider them full blooded or mix....
Dude it doesn't matter if you belong to the mother branch or the father branch... if your mix... reality say's your mix....
if your full blooded Hmong... then your mom and dad has to be hmong... common sense...
It don't matter if you have people calling mix bi-racial individual from the father side Hmong... that still in reality doesn't make them full blooded....
Oh yeah and I'm related to Mao Zedong, Alexander the Great, Nobunaga Oda, and I'm the late descent from the Qing Dynasty...
(Sarcasm)
Don't be so idealogically control... As if you speak for our culture and belief.... Heck I'll even do a survey for you.... and ask Hmong Youth individual... from around the community to chip in their 5 cent opinion... I'll even go as far as put it in Hmoob Teen Magazines and ship you an article on it.... what do you say?
I smell a bet... what do you say eh?
*Sigh* Koj xia xia nsthev hev