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On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Claude Jolicoeur wrote:

> A 16:02 08.03.03 -0600, vous avez écrit :
> > Interesting you should mention the Hmong.  I consider myself as
> > something of a cosmopolitan, and I had never heard of this group until
> > this year.  Seems there is a family in our very small rural community
> > that can only speak Hmong and no English.  I found that fascinating.
>
> Could someone tell me what is Hmong?
> Thanks,
> Claude
> _______________________________________________

An ancient Asian people.  (that is, the currently living people are presumably ordinary ages, but the culture has a long history.) Some of the population has been/is in Laos and Vietnam, and a number of those came over to the USA in the 70's (and I believe more since then), at least in part as a result of having been displaced by the general mess in Southeast Asia at that time.

Typing "Hmong" into Google should get you lots of information; which of it is accurate I don't know enough about the subject to tell.

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly