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The Vietnam War: The Hmong Culture

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Background[ edit ] Vietnam and Laos have a complicated past. After Vietnam invaded and destroyed Laos during the Vietnamese—Laotian War , the Vietnamese didn't interfere into Laos for more than years. However, Vietnamese influence had grown radically since the conquest, and played a major role on absorbing Laos into Vietnamese foreign policy. The Hmongs at the time had yet to be touched, owning by its neutrality to the Vietnamese and Laotians. The Hmongs had maintained a degree of autonomy with respect from Imperial Vietnamese Government, and on the same time the Hmongs demonstrated its role on developing Laos in the aftermath of the disastrous war of s with Vietnam. So while Vietnam kept interfering on Laotian affairs, the Hmongs were mostly left alone until the French conquest. It was the French rule that saw Hmongs converted in majority to Christianity, though large segments remained Buddhists, and allied with the French while maintaining its tie with Laos. The Vietnam War: The Hmong Culture The Vietnam War: The Hmong Culture

Written by Linh Pham. Top graphic by Hannah Hoang.

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This dramatic change begs the iVetnam how did a nation riddled with illiteracy teach itself the letters? The story began in Septemberwhen the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was born. Photo via Tuoi Tre. It was the essential condition for social change. He believed that through education, people could gain awareness of the injustice in their lives and strive for freedom.

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To mobilize the BDHV campaign, he wrote in Cuu Quoc newspaper: In order to safeguard our independence, to make our country strong and prosperous, each Vietnamese citizen must know their right and duty. Those who already know how to read and write can teach others.

The Vietnam War: The Hmong Culture

Husbands can teach their wives, older brothers and sisters can teach younger siblings, children can teach parents, the landlord can teach those living beneath his roof. Just 18 years old at the time, he was the eldest of eight siblings.

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He volunteered to be a BDHV teacher in his village. Stopping by a public board to study the letters. Leading into this market, there was only one road with a large wall running along one side, and a canal on the other. This proved to be Cultue prime location for teaching.]

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