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To be perfectly honest with you, Beemouchaofa:
I have always thought you're not only wasting time in your "chaofa" activities --- which to me have always been total, utter nonsense from the start --- but that you're NOT very bright or, at least, thoughtful.
From reading here, in SCH, the last 15 or so years, you've made it clear you have been, AS A BUSINESS MAN, very successful; so I don't doubt your wealth accumulation. And that's good.
But I have always thought --- whenever I came across your postings, on and about chaofa ---"This guy is absolutely nuts. He could be doing so much, TRULY, for "the Hmong" if he's that caring, concerned, or serious about them," etc., etc.
So this ONE POSTING of yours, I must admit, is a good start.
Forget about the Lao communist knuckleheads or their policies. Forget about the Hmong, here in the WEST, who babble endless, for years and now, decades, about how they gonna "go back" or "help the Hmong rise up" in Laos, etc.
If you truly cared about ordinary Hmong, here in the USA and in Laos... you, as someone who's fortunate enough to have come to the West, to America, and have worked hard and diligently enough to HAVE ACCUMULATED some RESOURCES/WEALTH... and you truly wanted to ADVANCE THE HMONG CAUSE..... then..... indeed, make small grants and scholarships available to HMONG KIDS, youth, students, entrepreneurs, and FARMERS, especially farmers... and especially THOSE IN LAOS.
Your name, your family name, and your "cause" could have been ADVANCED in untold and real ways, HAD YOU BEEN making 1-5 "BEE MOUA FOUNATION" SCHOLARHIPS, of $2,500 to $5,000 every year, both to very bright high school students and college graduates, who COULD HAVE SUCCEEDED had they had those extra $2,000 to $5,000 a year, to SUPPLMENT their income, so they could have put in the extra hours that they had to work, into STUDYING...
One small criticism: Christian DOES NOT EQUAL HMONG, as a broad generality.
Hmong are Hmong, and Hmong can be converted to Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, or Hindus or whatever beliefs. If you wanted to help HMONG, then you shouldn't say people HAD to be Christians, or any other beliefs YOU PERSONALLY happen to be converted to, convert to believing IN...
If so, than you object is NOT really about Hmong, or to help Hmong... it is to help THOSE HMONG who do things you do, believe the religious superstitions and beliefs you happen to like... THAT IS NOT HELPING HMONG, as a general criteria.
For example, if there were two very bright high school or college students, equally deserving of a "Bee Moua Foundation Scholarship," and one was a Christian Hmong and one a non-religious and you picked the Christian Hmong student and not the non-religious one, EVERY TIME YOU MADE GRANTS OR SCHOLARSHIPS.... is that really "helping Hmong" as a GENERALITY or is it ONLY ABOUT "helping the Hmong who believe in my religion [Bee Moua's religion]"?
So, again, the GENERAL IDEA of making grants and scholarship, from your own hard earned money, is very commendable, very noble; just make sure you KNOW what you want, know what you are talking about, when you throw out the "Hmong" word.
If you are a Hmong and your heart is to help Hmong, with your resources, then you should NOT discriminate against Hmong in need, whether they are here in the WEST, in Laos, Vietnam, or in China or anywhere else.... You and your people just look for the MOST QUALIFY, those you think will be able to use your hard-earned money to EXTEND their lives, extend their education, extend their farming or business activities, making MORE HMONG more successful, because of THAT ORIGINAL HELP of yours...
OTHERWISE, you need to say:
"I am only mostly concerned about CHRISTIAN HMONG," or "Hmoob Muas only," or "Hmong Yang only," or "Just my close clan members," or "Just those who agree with me," etc.... and DO NOT use the BROAD word "Hmong" without qualification...
Other than that, I think you deciding to use your hard-earned money to help those you think would do GOOD FOR THE HMONG... an idea you should have done many years ago... and many of those, all those years ago who are now grown and successful, would be saying, reflecting:
"Hey, one of the reasons why I am here today, successful and educated, was BECAUSE I got this small but very important scholarship from this guy, Bee Moua and his Foundation. It has made possible for me to study longer hours, without having to work doing odd jobs, with little pay, just to pay for food. But with Bee Moua's scholarship, of $300 [or $500], a month, it HAD MADE THE DIFFERENCE."
If you truly wanted to ADVANCE the HMONG, their cause, "as a people," THAT is what you want people to say about you... in a broad, sweeping, general way... NOT because some got help ONLY because they happened to be related to you, or because they happened to believe the ideas or religious OR POLITICAL beliefs you believe in, etc.........
Indeed, helping Hmong FARMERS and TEACHERS and STUDENTS and bright/hard working BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS.......... in Laos........ to me, makes the most sense.
NO PEOPLE, no nation, has ever prosper until there is an EDUCATED class, from within the PEOPLE, who are ABLE to engage with/against others, in IDEAS, in business and commerce and trade and communication.... and, to me, that starts with LITTLE HMONG BOYS AND GIRLS, especially girls, young women, and women.
Look at the PICTURE of the average Hmong, especially those in Laos: married at 14-18 and by their mid 20s to 30s, they are already with 3-9 kids. By late 30s to mid 40s, already grandparents; FEW to NONE ever go on to high school or college. GENERATION AFTER GENERATION, 95% or more REPEATING that pattern.
Is that the way how the HMONG, as a people, "succeed"?
Personally, I don't think so.
They TOIL AND SWEAT 12-18 hours a day, true.
But that's working like a horse or water buffalo; it's not working like an educated, thinking, and proactive person of a group of people... and THAT'S mainly due to the LACK of formal education, starting with small Hmong boys and girls and women....
Anyway...
Here, in the WEST, WEALTH is everywhere, eventually the hardest working Hmong, the most serious about education, WILL find ways to get it, to make good lives for them and their children.
The Hmong in Laos don't have access to such already-made/already-accumulated large pools of SOCIETAL wealth/resources. They also live in a rigid and poor society.... You should extend your hard-earned resources to those folks in Laos, those you see as most promising, hardest working, etc.