Sunday, April 7, 2013
Week One Blog, Kevin Vang
So I read Gary Yia Lee’s “Diaspora and the
Predicament of Origins: Interrogating Hmong Postcolonial History and Identity.” This
article made me think like crazy on how I identified myself. It just made my
own identity crises a bigger problem after reading this. The history of Hmong
and Miao are of the same but different. What this means is that there are
historical and genetic connection between the Hmong and Miao but is it possible
for Hmong to accept that they are a subgroup within Miao because Hmong was
created after Christians converted some of them in 19th century.
What made Hmong and Miao the most different was when Hmong people fled to
Southeast Asia and Miao people stayed in China. Lee brings up such good points
that I would have never thought of. I still do not know how to react about this
article just because it again is very conflicting because I can’t imagine myself
identifying partially as Miao if subsequently Hmong were just a subgroup. So my
question based on this reading would be, what and who is exactly Hmong?
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