CHAPTER 4

TIME TO GO OR TIME TO STAY?

• Some Hmong left their family's for America

REFUGEES AND IMIGRANT

• Some immigrants choose to leave their homes
• Some on the other hand had to leave or they might get killed

MAKING DECISIONS

• Some Hmong went back to Laos to try to farm the land
• Some went back to fight the communists
• Some just stayed in Thailand

LEAVING THE CAMPS

• Some refugees went to other countries like France and Australia
• They had to show they supported the U.S. Troops
• The family's who were not allowed to go, they we sent to a resettlement in Laos.

AN UNKNOWN LAND

• Thousands of Hmong refugees had to learn English before coming over
• By 1990 there were over 100,000'in the U.S.

CULTURE SHOCK

• The Hmong had never used almost anything the U.S. Had
• They did not know how to drive
• They did not have money to buy land to farm

THE YOUNG HMONG ADAPT

• Americans helped the Hmong adapt
• Most Hmong went to college when they knew English

THE OLDER HMONG STRUGGLE

• The old Hmong had to find their place in the community
• The old Hmong were troubled after war with the new land

NEW ROLES

• The older Hmong women struggled to find what they are supposed to do
• The men were able to continue to what they used to do in Laos but they had low paying jobs or no jobs

LOST IN AMERICA

• Some Hmong still struggle today in America