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>> but it does when i was growing up, i grew up pop culture, basically every time you saw an asian woman, she was a prostitute, killed. >> wow. >> she didn't speak english. by the time i was 18, i was like, this sucks, i'm over it. i think art making has been living in my skin unapologetically. >> also, we wanted to speak about ours a lot. we want people to pay see us. we think we're funny. >> i have a similar lifeline. if you recall, the hmong had worked together, years later the divide is real. >> we have so many things in common. we have a shared history. >> we wrote a play where lao-hmong....

>> there is no tinder. >> on the surface it looks like any heritage festival. food, clothes, a smattering of white people. i realize this takes on a much more significance for the hmong. they have to keep it going. seep. they have no home country to return to. this festival is like a tribute to the motherland. >> these are wearing the old traditional clothing. all the new ones are from thailand and china and laos, the countries we love. it's all mixed up. >> i know there has been an eraser of history. >> about 5,000 years ago, there were only three king comes in what we call now china. there w...

The h hmong spent much of here history as farmers in vietnam and laos. i'm not trying to start a fight here. they're credited as the first to cultivate rice in asia. once they arrived in minnesota, the snow didn't slow down as well. they make up more than 50% of all farmers in those markets. >> farmer is in our dna. when we meet a person that doesn't have a green thumb. it's like what's wrong with you? since it's winter, she grabbed canned fruit from the farm and is teaching me to make some jam. >> i was told apples and bananas are your favorites. >> we have a dossier team. he only eats apples...

Killed. the communists, they don't sigh as a hmong. they identify you as an american. they will kill some americans, you know. >> 16.

Ii. by the time the japanese lost their war, they were those that sided with the hmong and sided with the communists. >> and the americans came, right? >> eventually. eventually the americans. >> is there fighting here? we should go. you know, so if you look at the vietnam war, there is no coverage about the hmong. it's the whole war and laos is called the secret war of laos. it was the key to the whole war in southeast isiah. the country of laos fall then the region would fall to communism. >> if you recall students, this is the points in u.s. history where communism was a dirty word that mad...