CSPAN3 Chico Californias Hmong Community April 2, 2017
Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. I felt ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i am. That way i didnt have to do the whole History Lesson. I think that goes to the same with our generation not knowing a lot of our history. And the background. T...