Lao-Americans in
2005 American Community Survey
• Median Age – 29.1 Years (Compared to 36.4 among all Americans)
• Period of Arrival (Foreign-Born) – 85.0% Before 1990, 11.3% between
1990-1999, 3.7% after
2000
• Median Family Income – $52,248 (Compared to $55,832 U.S.)
• Employment in Manufacturing – 39.6% (Compared to 11.9% of all
Americans in the labor force
over 16)
• Higher Education – 9.2% Bachelor’s Degree (Compared to 17.2% of all
Americans over 25)
• Poverty Rate – 13.9% (Compared to 10.2% among all U.S. Families)
• Homeownership Rate – 61.9% (Compared to 67% among all U.S.
Households)
• Divorce Rate – 6.3% (Compared to 10.2% among all Americans over age
15)
• English Fluency – 45.6% speak English “Less than Very Well”
Trends in Hmong-American Studies
• The vast majority of works in Hmong-American Studies have been
published since the mid-1990s
• Increasing numbers of scholarly works are being produced by persons
of
Hmong-origin, particularly professors and graduate students at
American
universities. Only about 10% of the publications in 3 earlier
bibliographies
published by U of Minnesota had Hmong-origin authors, while about 25%
of
Hmong Studies publications published since 1996 have had Hmong
authors.
• The large increase in Hmong-American studies related publications
(particularly theses/dissertations/journal articles has been driven by
a
sizable number of Hmong-American graduate students researching and
writing about their own communities.
Hmong-American Studies
since 2000
• Total Number of Publications = 213 (Books, Book chapters, theses and
dissertations, journal articles)
• Physical and Mental Health – 76
• General Social and Economic Adaptation – 55
• Changing Gender Roles – 11
• Educational Adaptation and Youth Development – 62
• Religious Adaptation – 4
• Hmong-American Cultural Arts – 5
Sources: WorldCat, Web of Science, Academic Search Premier, ProQuest
Dissertations
Life is improving to compare to their refugee parents. The second
generation don't even care to speak or want to know anything about
their parents origin. But the third generation probably don't know
squirt about Laos.
Tell us what a commie wanna be like you have done to help its own
people and your country? Why are are here in the west? enlisted for
MRE and BLUE BERRY PAN CAKES instead of living in Laos?
What have happened to your commie sent Engineering and economic
students oversea that supposed to get their educations and come back
to help your commie nation to build its country? Why you still trade
dirt roads for Lao timber, gold, copper mines? 35 years of Commie
took over and your commie leaders still continue to be a nation of
beggar??? 70% of your national budget is accounted for foreign donor
funding???? Please explain!!!
On Jan 3, 12:44 am, Kong Tap Paxaxon Lao <sgkeovis...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
what the point you put up these number here? don't get me wrong, i
just don't understand what you want you say?
can you give us here the statistics of thahan-lao-ay-nong or your kong
tap potpoy paxaxon lao on how's their live comparing to the general
lao population or to the population of any country?????
pizone
On Jan 3, 12:44 am, Kong Tap Paxaxon Lao <sgkeovis...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
ຂຽນເປັນໂຕລາວແນ່ເດີ ຄັນແນ່ອີຫລີ. ອັນໂຕຝາຫລັ່ງອັງກິດນີ້
ຂອ້ຍອ່ານນໍາເຈົ້າບໍ່ໄດ້ດອກ.
nty
This commie wanna be is an enlisted US army soldier station in S.
Korea fattening himself with MRE and Blue Berry Pancakes. He lives in
Army barracks and spies for commie Laos.
Simple.....If you really wanna be a Lao army commander, you ought to
be smarter than that. MRE is what you go after, isn't it??
On Jan 4, 3:52 pm, Kong Tap Paxaxon Lao <sgkeovis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> LOL
>
> What is the purpose of having a FBI Counter Intelligence teams if a
> simpleton like cwjmem could simply detect a Communist Spy on the
> street. This is way beyond the imagination of a Hollywood film maker!
>
> On Jan 5, 3:55 am, cwjmem <cwj...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > NTY,
>
> > This commie wanna be is an enlisted US army soldier station in S.
> > Korea fattening himself with MRE and Blue Berry Pancakes. He lives in
> > Army barracks and spies for commie Laos.
>
> > On Jan 4, 10:39 am, Nty <nottooyou...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > ຮ້ວຍ...ພວກເຈົ້າບໍ່ເຂົ້າໃຈຊັ້ນບໍ...ກທປຊລ
> > > ເພິ່ນຖືກແຕ່ງຕັ້ງໃຫ້ໄປປະຕິບັດຫນ້າທີ່ຢູ່ປະເທດເກົາຫລີໄຕ້
> > > ທີ່ເພິ່ນວ່າມານັ້ນ
> > > ກໍຄືສິແມ່ນໃຫ້ໄປຄົ້ນຄົ້ວວິເຄາະເບິ່ງວ່າລາວນອກທັງຫລາຍສິລ້ໍາລວຍຫລືມີການສຶກສາດີຂນາດໃດ
> > > ຫລືບໍ່ດັ່ງນັ້ນ ກະຄືສິແມ່ນທໍາການບ້ານເພື່ອເອົາໃບປະລິນຍາຊັ້ນສູງ
> > > ກະບໍ່ຈັກເດີ...
>
> > > nty
>
> > > On Jan 5, 1:17 am, ກາສາລາວ <casa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > ທ້າວກອງທັບປົດປອ່ຍເອີຍ,
>
> > > > ຂຽນເປັນໂຕລາວແນ່ເດີ ຄັນແນ່ອີຫລີ. ອັນໂຕຝາຫລັ່ງອັງກິດນີ້
> > > > ຂອ້ຍອ່ານນໍາເຈົ້າບໍ່ໄດ້ດອກ.- Hide quoted text -
>
> > - Show quoted text -
On Jan 4, 7:46 pm, Kong Tap Paxaxon Lao <sgkeovis...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> LOL
>
> Obviously you don't have the substance to further debate with me. You
> go ahead and carry on with your childish game. The general public are
> more inform than you think. All you got is hot air and recyled cold
> war rhetoric. The world has move on long time ago. The US and Lao PDR
> are now partner in the global war on terrorism.
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