From Laos to French Guiana: The story of the Hmong people

[@mhmm3041]

We might not have a country to call our own, but we spread all over this world and learned every language, culture, and their way of life. So I’m proud to be HMONG

[@ILPADRONEISM]

Can you recommend any books to learn more about the people and culture

[@zeitgeistx5239]

The majority of your people never left China. You speak 2 dialects of several dozen related dialects of the Hmong-Mienic language. Several videos of “white hmong” speakers in China.

[@HOTPLATEGAMING]

Get off my lawn

[@stellataylor7436]

Bro y’all sound like one hell of a people. You should 1,000% be proud

[@BookWorm09893]

​@@zeitgeistx5239the dialect from Chinese hmong is different from say Laotian or Thai. It has Chinese for everyother hmong spoken in any given sentence.

[@dinosaurwithcake1256]

I'm hmong-american and hmong people speaking french, never thought i'd ever see that. Good too see that they are doing well!!!

[@crunchybundles4005]

I'm not Hmong, but I know a lot of Hmong I have met French Hmong before so this isn't a surprise tip me, tho I was very surprised to know Hmong were resettled into Argentina.

[@FirstNameLastName-gm3lu]

Nothing surprising. Doesn't matter what your race and ethnicity are; where you live will highly dictate your language(s). My hmong relatives from France speaks about 4-6 languages. Hmong, French, English, Spanish, German, and Dutch.

[@hmoobmeeka]

@sneksnekitsasnek if you're from France, you're next to Germany, Italy, Spain, England, and a stones throw away from Portugal. Thats 5 languages that France is surrounded by. In North America we have English and Spanish as the dominant languages and thats it

[@hmongclass]

It’s so strange to see! But so cool as well!

[@jackjackyphantom8854]

@@hmongclass Just wondering, why do some of the Hmong people bares Chinese surnames? I felt bad for Hmong people, they're just the Karen people who don't have country of their own. They're the gypsies of Asia.

[@PatrickClarkin]

Years ago, I did some anthropology research with the Hmong in Cacao and Javouhey for a few months, and I recognize some of the people in this video. Cacao has changed a bit since then, but I will never forget the kindness of the people in those villages.

[@Lagirafe00]

I grew up in Cacao ! Glad to know that you’ve been there ☺️

[@PatrickClarkin]

@@Lagirafe00 :) I was there in 2001, a long time ago. Su and Cecile Yang helped me a lot with meeting people in the villages.

[@xeemnpisyuslis2089]

Hi Patrick. This is Sing and Bao (and our little son, now big son Sabastian). I just saw this video and saw your comment here. We can back to the state at the end of February 2002 after over 3 years there. How are you and your family?

[@PatrickClarkin]

@@xeemnpisyuslis2089 Sing, Bao, and Sabastian! Great to hear from you. I remember the days hanging out with you in Cacao fondly.

[@Lagirafe00]

@@PatrickClarkin oh okay. Btw who is Su ? I know Cecile Yang

[@paovang8470]

I am so PROUD of the French Hmong!! They made it and integrated well into French society. The Hmong in America also have made it too. I should know, I am the first Hmong ENT doctor in America and I live in Minnesota Sooooo proud of be Hmong!!!! Pao Vang, MD

[@paovang88]

Awesome video! I am a Hmong u.s. citizen but wish to visit my brother's and sisters from south america!

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[@BoredAndBrowsing]

ill be honest, this agricultural lifestyle is something alot of the US and European hmong lack. It seems more free. Im one of the families that landed in California, fortunate or unfortunate. Im not sure if its the life my parents wanted, it sure doesn't look like it, and honestly i think they would have been much happier with French Guiana if just only for the agricultural lifestyle. Me personally, along with my siblings don't have the same feelings as the older hmong people here, who still hold onto cultural values, simply because its too diverse in the US and you seem to forget your sparse roots. Im sure every hmong has their own struggles wherever they are, sadly we have lost our homeland, and I feel as time goes on we will also forget our cultural roots.

[@gthoj8867]

Agree! My parents would love to have this lifestyle. I would also enjoy this type of lifestyle too since I know nothing about gardening and growing food. It's something that I wish I can share with my mom (who is still growing her own little garden). And it's true that we might lose our cultural roots in the future. Now, a lot of 2nd or 3rd generation Hmong-Americans are losing their native language or can't speak in it at all. I'm afraid that I might lose mine too as I can't communicate well with my parents. Also, among other things, but that can be another topic to talk about it.

[@ceemfajtswm4465]

You know the trouble was that time Hmong not smart enough and less Hmong went to School. And never knew that Frech and America were Chicken hear or heart less to ly Hmong got kill like every day to day.

[@marlak4203]

That's something i was afraid of too. When I heard so many of the Hmong's interviewed were speaking French that's what had me thinking I hope they also speak their native language. Don't let that go. Keep that knowledge around. Even if people don't "live" their lives like their original people's culture, learn from it at least. Especially the language but...idk sometimes languages do die. Would hate for a non-hmong, non-asian person to "discover" the language somewhere decades later.

[@DinoMan_6]

NO! HOLD ONTO IT!

[@sdsurfgirl60]

Not to be dramatic but I can't imagine starting all over in a foreign land with a new language and strange culture. I love my home as I'm sure you do. I admire your strength and fortitude and hope you can continue protecting Hmong identity for generations to come.

[@108dragon247]

As a Hmong myself living in the US, it’s good to know that Hmong people can survive anywhere there is land. Hmong people live all over the world and not just in Laos, Thailand, US and France. The French translation into English was better and more accurate than the Hmong translation to English. When the older Hmong lady was speaking the translation was wrong.

[@TV-hr4vj]

There are 10 million Hmong in China

[@zoshmoobtsheej8737]

Hello from Hmong Alaska,USA

[@Diamondbeach]

Thank you for sharing. Love watching my fellow my sisters and brothers all over the world. I hoped to visit one day.

[@variousactivities7894]

It's somethings sad as long as happy. SAD that we are apart, HAPPY that thousand miles a way, there are still someone who have exactly the same language, same culture, same lifestyle like us. If you are really in my point you will know how it feels. Thanks for making this video.

[@victoriousvic23]

The English translation is far from what the old lady said.

[@StephanUrkle]

Right, way off lol

[@franco912]

Can you give us the right translation please, thank you.

[@victoriousvic23]

@@franco912 which part did you want to know? If I’m translating the whole video it would take too long.

[@jonknee5095]

@@franco912 Just the part at 5:29 when she's ending the conversation. She's saying roughly "That's all I have to say. Let it be known to anyone who sees this, we are Vang Neng 's family, we are the lineage of Lor Vang Neng." It's common for the old folks to refer to their clan leader.

[@YerriLauj]

lmaooo. yeahh. im watching this now and the translations are not even close to correct. 😂😂

[@jamesxiong8475]

This is where my grandma from my mom side settled after the war, while we settled in the US. Since I've been alive I have always knew there was Hmong in this province because my grandma would occasionally call and talk with us and I would always hear others talking in French in the background. Good to know that they are doing good there

[@Yvonmoua]

The Hmong in French Guyana have more freedom, peace and rich because France government helping them so good. My sister family living over there. I hope i will go visit one day.

[@MoonChild-yd3ez]

Where do you live?

[@Yvonmoua]

@@MoonChild-yd3ez USA and sometime Paris, France in case no Covid-19

[@MoonChild-yd3ez]

@@Yvonmoua I hope you meet your sister soon 💜

[@maniacardz3007]

Unm no they dress like laos

[@motgnay7065]

Cause hmong people play a big role in supplying farm produce for the mainland. But let's not forget what the the French did to the hmong people back in laos back in the days.

[@jinchang9639]

I am Hmong, I fought the secret war in Laos when I was 10 year old in 1972. I am proud to be an American and proud to see my people do well in many other Countries. God bless!

[@RSov-np8up]

Shame on you..you served wedtern imperialism

[@americanronin5223]

@@RSov-np8up I'm an American Soldier...and my father was a Soldier in the Secret Army. He fought to protect and defend Hmong freedom from communist oppression. Just so happens our interests aligned with America's interests.

[@ptiaptia7347]

To user-eu6yv1et4b. You sound like a coward and ignorant individual. Shame on you.

[@lizseying1205]

I enjoyed your story of the Hmong people in French Guiana. I speak Hmong and some of your translations were misleading and some were inaccurate. Otherwise, it was interesting and nice to learn about Hmong people in other parts of the world.

[@kugul1683]

I don't speak Hmong, can you pls give some examples?

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

Some examples pls

[@st4r444]

@@kugul1683 the dumb white guy narrator said hmong fought french and American. Not true. They fought french colonization in late 1800s to early 1900s but decided to side with french and American to fend of the socialist party because the french and Americans sided with royal laos family. Hmong were strong supporter of preserving the royal Laos family and communism didn't believe in that tradition

[@lilboothang246]

A lot of the translations are inaccurate yes, some are either reworded, or what is supposed to be translated is completely left out, that’s a bit disappointing.

[@houseofvang78]

Thanks for making this video.

[@hmongguy4573]

Thank you very much for making this nice video. I especially love the sound of qeej. 👍😀👍

[@patandderry8416]

2% of the population produce 70% of the agricultural output.

[@sydneypbeckers7338]

like in Europe

[@pahouavang9371]

A working group of people.

[@alicezoom]

That is so infuriating when the Hmong elder and his wife could not get citizenship papers! They were used by Whites!

[@asiaglobal]

Wow... Amazing! Love you all From Hmong Laos 🇱🇦

[@cheecha3981]

Just made the bucket list of vacation destinations...just as soon as things ease up for international travels

[@cassandraxiong282]

Thanks for sharing. Good information! ❤️👍 I’ll go visit there someday.

[@toshia156]

Wow hard working people God bless them

[@KoomNtaj]

The Hmong maybe poor wealth but rich hearts and loyalty to others and no place to go. But they have been survive since the first day of creation on Earth. We are proud to be Hmong and to be humble to our neighbors. Thank you for sharing this special documentary Video.

[@johnnythao]

That's one great thing about us Hmong people and various other ethnic minorities who walk in similar shoes, because where ever we live in the world, if given the chance, we can turn nothing into anything within the given time, due to our history's extensive knowledge about building communities and a system that would fit a maintained society. Also, France doesn't have a lot of Industrial businesses compared to other Western countries, so it's not very surprising that the Hmong Community there have a stronger sense of Agriculture compared to us over here in North America. All my relatives who ended up in France after the war live this type of lifestyle over there too.

[@davidlee9411]

I’m pretty sure France is an industrial powerhouse in Western Europe, including chemicals to modern agriculture. The Hmong people just tend to choose the lifestyle of old agricultural. Even in America almost every first generation Hmong family have a garden.

[@lancesay]

i'm so glad to have found this video, back in the refugee camp days where the thai make the kmhmu share a bungalow (knonw as akan and we resided at akan #6) at the hmong side and that is where many of us learn to speak hmong. during the secret war eras, so many hmong speak french and english, still remembered back pre 1975, at ban-xon (kao lek or metal bridge, we resided there from 1972 to 1975)

[@4stroke-r6]

It's amazing what Hmong people do with so little. Every where we go, we are successful in life and in culture. My buddy from Guyana is right and no wonder he surrounds himself around hmong people, even in America. I am so humbled by this. Thanks.

[@FOLIPE]

If you give farmers good free land, they'll always succeed.

[@plasntawmlajlim9310]

Great episode of the Hmong in French Guyana. Hopefully someday their goods will be exported to the USA. Love the French, American, and Hmong.

[@justanotherguyfromthenorth5791]

This is an amazing insight into how immigrant populations either assimilate or group isolate.

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[@mongtkb]

Hmong people are very adaptable to their environment Hmong people tend to live in a cluster but when we stepped outside of our house then we assimilated with the culture of the country we live in there is a proverb in Hmong which said "live in others' world, adopt their culture; live in others' land, adopt their way of life" one thing that i learned from my sociology class is that people tend to stick with their own when Hmong emigrated to the US, everyone was separated into all the states, somehow CA, MN, and WI has the largest Hmong population

[@TheNeeyang]

They were forced to group isolate bc the people there didn’t want them to assimilate

[@pathana1]

@@TheNeeyang It's not that you're not going the other wrong 💯 percent, there are mhong in Alaska, Canada, USA,china red, Vietnam,laos, Thaïlande, Miramar (Birmanie),Japon,Agentina,UK Spain but not in Russia strange.

[@XyoojLi]

It's really nice that you guys are doing this little documentary for the hmong people in France but damn get the translation right it's not even close to what they're saying in hmong.

[@HaibTshajHaib]

Our Hmong over there live just like how they used to live in Laos and Thailand. I’m concerned about the younger generations.

[@Diamondbeach]

This a family business I’m sure they have good education there. Just like any farmers here. And I have a lot go clients who are farmers and they make quite the $$. U’d be surprise.

[@162playboyz]

Unemployment is high. Future looks gloom. Hmong in America have the best. We have people in high places in government offices and private sector.

[@pathana1]

@@162playboyz txhob poob siab rau lawv os lawv mus kawm ntawv qib siab nyob Fabkis daim av loj lo tuaj kawm nyob Amelika teb nawb (United urop union)..

[@NangDeeSan]

What troubles are the youth getting involved in? Is it any where near as bad as in the States?

[@Aaron-8989]

Very interesting in Wisconsin USA 🇺🇸 there is a big Hmong community very friendly people

[@charlestonchanming9251]

Very interesting Hmong are all over the world. Met a few in New Caledonia a French territory in the South Pacific near Australia. Charlie Honolulu , Hi , Usa 🇺🇸

[@gthoj8867]

It irritates me that the subtitles are incorrect.

[@paolee2730]

I need to visit this place. Someone need to do a full interview on this last French soldier.

[@joecha9746]

This is my family. My parents went there a couple of times. one time a 6 inch centipede hitch hike back with them in their suitcase.

[@paolee2730]

@@joecha9746 lol

[@pathana1]

Lawv nyob xab npai os,tsi muaj nqis dab tsi them li os,niaj nhub mus nqa nyiaj lo tum tsheg xwb os mhoob.

[@Chorlauheung1776]

Good reporting ! Thank you !

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

Nice culture, may they live long and prosper

[@cascisa22]

Awesome documentary

[@Vxiong111]

great information, thanks

[@lifeyang2]

I am a native Hmong speaker. I just love it how I listen when they speak Hmong, and the English subtitles are reading something else. Lol.

[@kugul1683]

What did they actually say?

[@jiaxiong8991]

Exactly

[@soflafit]

Thanks! Very interesting history

[@hmoobs1]

Thank you for the video

[@jenniferthao2102]

Wow. Thanks you for this short documentary of our Hmong people in French Guiana 🇬🇫 but whom translating our language is way off.. It’s like watching a bad subtitles movies

[@baiyanavue4452]

Is good for the hmong family's go there they working hard at the farming,but no illness alot every one is healthy no high blood sugar no higthblood pressure because they work hard at the farm every day and nice weather like we live in Laos I wish I can live there too because I don't like snowing.

[@MonkeyStunkey9000]

Evenly we are Hmong apart where we from but I am so great that we Hmong free to living and peaceful. Maybe we till don’t got the same equality right in some place but that is okay caused we were better living than the past generation. I am strongly believe, Hmong won’t come back to lives in one place anymore, please do your best for the country, state, city, community, and your family. Always proud who’s we are (Hmong).

[@pyang4127]

Love the video!!

[@myosotismalva]

What a beautiful story of resilience! ❤️

[@1132boyz]

Love ya from Cali

[@bangerjohnson3804]

Thank you for shared ours hmoob peoples to the world.

[@tomntej2316]

🤗🤗

[@First_Emperor]

I am so proud of the Hmong in Cacao; continue to go hard.

[@evryatis2853]

complete genius move by the french government, i had no idea myself

[@-m3m0ry-]

I am a Hmong person living in the U.S with my family.

[@hmoobnplog5890]

I am a Hmong Laotian living in Laos with my family too.

[@sniperzooming1915]

I'm a real hmong, i lived in Lao to Thailand and now living in the Northern in the cold cold world.....

[@hmoobnplog5890]

@@sniperzooming1915 Where is the northern? And why there is so cold?

[@sniperzooming1915]

@@hmoobnplog5890 have you heard about North polar, that's where I live....

[@hmoobnplog5890]

@@sniperzooming1915 I never heard about the north polar. I only heard about the North Pole.

[@BeverlyLedbetter-cb1971]

The sister and daughter are adorable!☺️

[@A25thmix]

Love from a Lao Phu tai in Canada.

[@autumnly3409]

Good documentary

[@bluexiong3492]

Love from California to the brothers and sisters in cacao

[@suabxobchannel19]

Very good to keep the Hmong culture.

[@trueolson3812]

I am surprise Joseph speaks French so well! Can he speak Hmong? Like my children, they don't understand or speak Hmong at all.

[@andy8034]

14:25 aint this the kid that sings n raps? I thought he was from France.

[@dalmarcadde1507]

Hmong people are very nice and kind people i got to know them in US.

[@zhaecha8882]

Hmong people are very good people if go to hmong village you don't have to worry about anything. They give you shelter , foods for free you don't have to pay a single penny. If you people out there don't believe that go and do your research any country hmong live in

[@mikesaetern8263]

wow! didnt know there hmong ppl live in south america. i wonder if there any mien ppl migrant there.

[@YyYy-nl4kc]

I am Hmong USA I am glad to see Hmong People in French Guiana successful in growing fruit& vegetable to feed French Guiana people.

[@xenotypos]

Honestly it's amazing what they've done there. In terms of gdp per capita French Guyana is the second poorest region in France, yet they managed to build all this stuff. If a larger share of the Guyanese population were Hmong people I guess this region would be a paradise.

[@siaxiong4503]

So interesting! Thank you for documentary. I wonder how are they celebrating Hmong new year there.

[@pahouavang9371]

Very nice.

[@johantoreld3419]

These people fled opression and found the american dream. Beautiful.

[@RoyPearsonVue1313]

Nice!

[@Mikcrynouse]

French guina is so diverse africans, maroons, natives tribes, hmong, white French, chinese, Indian, Arab, Brazilian and haitians

[@robertkertoikromo8643]

respect

[@tubnquagchannel1338]

Good video! I am Hmong USA.

[@kongchengproduction]

Very interesting the video 📹 👌 👍want to visit my in French

[@Mike_MFn_Jones]

MAAGA supports the beautiful loyal HMONG people ♥

[@zoovtheejyaaj8724]

I love hmong

[@welcome2stp]

I’m from Minnesota, USA. I want to visit my Hmong people over there.

[@Laulaulawm]

So many people wanted to go visit French Guiana but there no direct flight. If we can coordinate during the Hmoob New Years. Maybe we can ask Sun Country Airlines straight from MSP to CYN.

[@welcome2stp]

@@Laulaulawm really? That sucks, what’s the closest airport that land in that area? Of how do one get there? In another KZbin video, I saw that some Wisconsin Hmong people visit their family there.

[@Laulaulawm]

@@welcome2stp Just Google travel to French Guiana. Last time I checked, it take off from Miami to Brazil, from Brazil to French Guiana (CYN). On a return you'll have to go to Paris then back to the states. That's why it cost like 3 to 5 g round trip.

[@162playboyz]

Hmong Minnesota should start a delegation to go there.

[@ceemfajtswm4465]

When Vang pao started to help America he never thinks that American will be this chicken heart and ran away let Hmong got kill one by one untill today and couldn"t evenly said some thing to Laos.

[@joecha9746]

That’s my family!

[@BookWorm09893]

We aren't traitors, we only fought for our freedom. Lao, thai and viets treated us like 2nd class citizens, heavily taxing us and graping and slaughtering us on a whim since we came into Indochina. We just wanted to be left alone. Proud to be hmong.

[@Mikcrynouse]

Are they fro. Vietnam 🇻🇳 or laos 🇱🇦

[@haaaaa4173]

I am Montagnard Jarai indigenous lovr Hmong

[@ntujqubqab3479]

at 14:00, the only human on earth doing this, no one else beside the Hmong.

[@niamtxiv]

Not true. Mienh, Zhuang, Mongols, Yi and many other ethnic groups still practice animism and shamanism.

[@dharris5887]

A comedian sent me here because I felt like I needed to learn

[@wott7]

If you're going deep down that rabbit hole, they call us Miao in china. The indigenous lands of mong. goodluck.

[@mryaj0095]

I was told u still have family there too.. one day i will hope to visit there with my parents.

[@blongsiab]

Sounds like my new home when I retire

[@drakedraven6961]

Seriously, a 3rd world country??? It's why your parents and great grand parents fled Laos in the first place as a refugee to seek asylum. Even the French government give them nothing to work with, no tools, no water irrigation systems except trees and land. That's a death toll. Considering our people had suffer enough as it is when they migrated to Southeast Asia from China. Our ethnic group might've persevere, but the struggles always resonate in cycle throughout generation after generation. Isolating a group of refugees to integrated, adapting to harsh conditions to survive. What's the outcome??? I think you already know the answer to this rhetoric question.

[@blongsiab]

@@drakedraven6961 I need to get away from crazy American politics like put the native Americans in an area reservation an give them a check then fill their countries with other people

[@drakedraven6961]

@@blongsiab It's not about politics. It's racism, discrimination and segregation as it were back in the 1960s. The worst ethnic group that largely affected by this are the Southeast Asian Cambodian and Miao (Hmong) that came to the U.S. in the late 70s, 80s and 90s were living in poor areas where there drugs, violence and gangs. Not only that, but stereotype, racism and discrimination are part of the problems. As an immigrant, Asians were bullied and abused within that communities which created young men to join gangs to protect themselves. As I stated before, the cycle never ends. I recommended you to watch the documentary how Blacks decided to migrate to Russia as escape from racism.

[@Tensaiwung]

Interesting

[@lilyherbal2262]

Wow...interesting

[@txivee8376]

Right now they have good families

[@yaaj93]

How do we contact them and travel there?

[@The1ByTheSea]

Many of the young HMONG from French Guiana; have moved to France

[@jonathanmoua8543]

I would love to go visit the Hmong here one day.

[@tomntej2316]

Merci Euronews de presenter mon peuple Hmong

[@vangyang8621]

I am really proud of your discovery about our Hmong people. Please keep doing more because I want to see some more in the future. Thank you.

[@vickyvang1983]

We are people not a land. So happy to be Hmong because we are rarez

[@hmongclass]

Hmong people are survivors!

[@ntsaiabchannel3780]

Zoo siab tau pom nej

[@tahanlaoboy]

Thanks, I wish one day they are going back to Laos

[@hmongb9656]

Um Laos isn’t the origin of the Hmong nor is Vietnam or Thailand we Hmong are from China in China our name is Miao

[@lukasdutli3473]

They are actually from China. But eh, they have it better in France

[@MrSilasChorei]

French influence letting them to forget their mother tongue Hmong native language, I'd like to say that ceremony they are celebrating and the musical instruments are similar to ours (The CHOREIS) from Northeast India I'm belonging to Kuki Community

[@pathana1]

May be you are the lost of mhong people long time left tuam tshoj teb yog (china actuel)some free time go to visit the mhong new year to prove if kuki is mhong.ok.

[@sherryyoung5638]

Wow I want to go visit

[@Romeokonggo]

I had a Guiana friend who told me about this. I thought she was tripping. Here I am watching the video lol

[@HmongGuitarPlayer]

Give us land that is Fertile and leave us alone and we will thrive and you will have plenty to eat.

[@beeyang651]

Good

[@xisntses]

aha zoo siab uas peb nyob mekas tau pom nej hmoob fab kis av me lau. tsis pom ntau los twb tau pom me me lawm ces zoo siab lawm lauv thaum twg tsis muaj kab mob lawm no peb mam li ya dav hlau tuaj xyuas nej. tuaj nrog nej noj qos ntoo tab sis tu siab qhov peb tsis paub lus fab kis li nej na