Word: hmong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only constituency Agnos must serve. Right under the noses of the white establishment, San Francisco has turned into a city of Pacific Rim immigrants. The Chinese community alone numbers 150,000, the Philippine 70,000. Add to those groups a spicy mixture of Japanese, Thais, Laotians, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Hmong, plus contingents from Pacific Island outposts, and the city that Columnist Herb Caen likes to call "Baghdad by the Bay" more closely resembles Hong Kong East. Says New York-born and Hong Kong- reared Leslie Tang, 32, a commercial developer: "We don't have the political representation that our presence...
...group that has faced an especially difficult shakeout period is the Hmong hill tribe of Laos, many of whose members were recruited by the CIA to fight Communist forces. An agrarian people with an animist faith and a language that had no written form until 30 years ago, many Hmong were simply overwhelmed by their new circumstances. In Philadelphia, where some 2,000 were unwisely placed in inner-city neighborhoods by resettlement officials, all but about 400 have scattered to other locations after falling frequent victim to street crime. In Minnesota's Ramsey County, where some 8,000 Hmong took...
...Hmong, rural Laotian tribesmen who migrated to Powelton Village in West Philadelphia in 1981, the City of Brotherly Love proved anything but. They came with little knowledge of American life, only to be confronted by crime, unemployment and blacks who called them gooks. The Hmong, though, had been taught one thing about America: do not trust black people. When the teacher of an elementary school English class attempted to explain the meaning of the word hate, the class of young Laotians responded that they knew what they hated: blacks. The mutual ignorance spurred violence. Some of the Hmong were threatened...
...children of emigres, the emphasis is on education. "When they have good knowledge, they make good money," explains Vong Ly, a Hmong tribesman from Laos who now lives in Banning, Calif., with seven of his nine children, ages eight to 17. Medicine, law, engineering, business and computer science are the favored fields. Le Trinh, a Vietnamese-born Chinese who arrived in Houston five years ago, will enter Texas A&M in the fall to study engineering. "It's not my favorite subject," she admits. "I love teaching, but that pays...
...long, how complete and how painful the process of Americanization will be remains unclear. It is true that ethnic elitists have bewailed each succeeding wave of Irish or Germans or Greeks, but it is also true that the disparities among Korean merchants, Soviet Jews, Hmong tribesmen, French socialites and Haitian boat people are greater than any the U.S. or any other country has ever confronted. On the other hand, Americans are probably more tolerant of diversity than they once were. "America is much more of a pluralistic society now," says Peter Rose, professor of sociology at Smith College...