Another group of people uncle scammy pulled the rug out from under

[727Sky]

We used to have a member who lived with the mountain yards in Vietnam. They were great fighters and ambush specialist during the Vietnam War.  In Laos there was another group called the Hmong who also believed in American support and were every bit as effective as the Yards were. Some of their troops were 11 years old...


Before all the lock down crap we used to go to Laos every few months. You can use Dollars, Thai Baht, or Laotian Kip even thought the country is communist now since the war.

[guohua]

@"727Sky" 
My husband watched the video and just nodded his head and commented that he remembers they were very, very, very skillful.
That is was a Great Disgrace the Democrat's force us to leave them, much like our Afghan Support, the Democrats have done it again.

[Ninurta]

The Hmong are a subtribe of the Montagnards. Another subtribe is the Rhade. They live in the mountains (Annamite Cordillera - the mountain "spine" of southeas Asia) along the Vietnamese borders, on both sides of the borders, and tend to ignore the borders. They are ethnically different from the Vietnamese, and there are ethnic tensions there.

We settled a bunch of Hmong tribesmen in Greensboro, NC when I lived there, in the early 90's and late 80's. They were settled in about 1 block southwest of where I lived, on the other side of what was then an open field, but is now a housing development.

There were some adjustments for them to make, both culturally and technologically. I recall one incident there where a Hmong tribesman "punished" his wife by dragging her behind a car. He was not used to automotive technology, nor the cultural norms of America that dictate fellas are not supposed to punish their wives, and definitely not by dragging them behind cars.

Some of the younger Hmong, who tend to adjust more quickly, took up gang life. I reckon it was a replacement for their tribal life when the tribe itself was being subsumed by a foreign culture.

I stood guard at a BoA bank on South Elm Eugene Street in Greensboro for a while, and I recall a Hmong family that banked there. An old grandpa always came with them, but never went inside the bank. Instead, he would squat on the pavement outside where I stood guard, and grin at me, which was a little unnerving. I asked one of the younger Hmong one day why he did that, and they said it was the uniform - my uniform at the time was black BDUs. They said he spoke no English, but was showing his appreciation for the soldiers he worked with in Vietnam, and who had a hand in bringing him over to America, and that it was not being disrespectful or anything like that, he was just showing appreciation to the uniform, but did not have the language skills to say so in English.

So he would squat, and grin, and nod, and wave in lieu of words.

I found them, in general, to be good people lost in an alien culture, but trying to find their new way. Except the gang bangers. Those bastards were pretty ruthless.

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[ABNARTY]

A lot on Hmong were resettled in the state I live. 

I agree with Ninurta that there was a period of "getting used to" by all parties. Now? They are just part of the landscape like everybody else. I have no issues with them.