Posted on 12/11/2004 8:37:57 AM PST by Rakkasan1
Vang" is one of just 18 tribal names in the Hmong culture. It happens to be the name of Chai Soua Vang, the St. Paul man charged with shooting eight Rice Lake, Wis., hunters Nov. 21, killing six of them.
After the incident, some Twin Ports Hmong residents often were asked if they were related to the suspect, or if they knew him, said Cher Pao Vang of Superior, Wis.
They don't know him. But they do want to help the families and surviving victims of the incident, which shocked the nation and set Minnesota and Wisconsin Hmong communities on edge about a possible backlash.
After a Nov. 30 Hmong community meeting, the 21 Hmong families living in the Twin Ports decided to hold a fund-raiser to benefit the victims' families. It's scheduled from noon to 3 p.m. Dec. 18 at First United Methodist Church.
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more meat,mmmmmm.
ping
Good to hear.
I agree----some good news for a change!
The Hmong have shot up in my esteem as a community that took accountability for one of theirs even if they didn't have to. Their simple gesture will go a long way to healing the wounds. I wish muslims felt or acted just a little bit like them regarding muslim terrorism worldwide, and specifically 9/11.
No excuses. No "Our culture doesn't understand private property". No pore, pore pitiful us, having to live in this foreign place.( and they do have to) Just let's do somthing for the victims families. How refreshing. We need more of this from everyone.
It's a wonderful gesture, nevertheless.
ping
Hmong/Laotian egg rolls are wonderful, and I like them better than Chinese egg rolls. The dipping sauce will clear your sinuses.
Great, all's forgiven!
13!
Perhaps it wouldn't feel like their responibility as a community, if they didn't set themselves apart as a community. I think this is a great gesture, and should help integrate them a little more into the larger community.
Well sad to say, there is one wish you probably die before it is ever granted.
Just my opinion.
I am a small minority in a larger community and frankly I don't care to integrate. It means giving up a part of my being and I prefer to keep that little part of me.
Re: your situation, there are trade-offs, no?
The Amish in some states are harrassed to the point they pack up and leave.
Do they not have the right to do their own thing without others demanding they 'integrate'?
In my mind I have noticed no trade-offs. Unless you call slurs directed towards people who are not of the majority as something to be desired.
Aren't we seeing this daily in communities all over the country?
I remember when an amishman's son died, and he buried him at some isolated roadside grave (hole in ground). The amish were given all kinds of scrutiny.
Please look in your own heart and see if you can find a way to live and let live.
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