Hmong customs and culture

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The Hmong people are an ethnic group currently native to several countries and believed to have originated in the Yangtze River Basin in southern China. Throughout recorded history, the Hmong have remained identifiable as Hmong because they have maintained the Hmong language, customs, and ways of life while adopting the ways of the country in which they live, including Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and China—which is home to one of the biggest Hmong populations in the world (5 million)—as well as the United States, French Guiana, Australia, France, and Germany. In the United States, new generations of Hmong are gradually assimilating into American society while being taught Hmong culture and history by their elders. Many fear that as the older generations pass on, the knowledge of the Hmong among Hmong Americans and other parts of the Hmong diaspora will die, as well.

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