HenryDavidT
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While these problems are more or less ubiquitous in all societies, they are especially acute in small societies or communities, where there are great transformational trends happening, where inequalities in education and monetary means are exacerbated.
That is what is going on in the small Hmong community in the last 30-45 years.
The 250-400,000 here in the West, "all of a sudden," have enormous advantages over those in Thailand and Laos and Vietnam. But in particular, those in Laos most of whom are "directly related" in one way or another, to us, who've left Laos around 1975.
Young woman, in general (young men too but mostly young women) of all cultures are especially vulnerable to exploitation, largely sexual exploitation; but, again, in the Hmong community, this has been a very acute problem.
When you have men, mostly older ones, here from the West returning to Laos, with a few thousand dollars in their pockets and they "want to have fun," vulnerable Hmong TEENAGERS in Laos are their main "fun" targets.
And if you're a young Hmong woman in Laos, 12 to 20 years of age, and you know you could much more easily "come into a few hundred dollars" to a even a few thousand dollars ---- every week or, at most, a month or two ----- by "hanging around" with some "old farts" from America, why go to school, or go to the rice fields, or do other traditional trading or business activities?, when working to death in the field won't get you no more than $100 to $300 A WHOLE YEAR, if you do "very well"?
The typical/average Hmong men, in general and in specific, from the "very educated" (with MDs and PhDs, etc) to the very poorly educated HAVE NO MODERN self-control, shame, embarrassment, sensibility, or any other awareness about not going after TEENAGERS.
They could be 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, etc. and they have absolutely no problem marrying teenager girls, from 12 to 19.
Indeed, we just had some postings here, a few weeks back, with some Hmong regular here boasting superiorly about his knowledge about THE UNITED STATES and Western people STILL (or, according to him, up until 2003?) going by MIDDLE AGE "ENGLISH COMMON LAW," where marriage is concerned. That is, that it's perfectly legal, moral, and ethical to marry, with the parents consent, at 13 or 14 years of age!
And, according to THAT idiocy, "if Whites and Americans do it, why not us Hmong, too?, after all, it is our tradition"! LOL
Funny, tragic, and sad at the same time, when I come across men that retarded, that primitive..... sad and tragic partly because I realize that I AM PART of a people as primitive and simple, as the Hmong... There is no escape from onself! LOL
Anyway, point is, the meeting of two groups, with the one (Hmong men from America) having so much more than the other (Hmong in Laos, and, in particular, YOUNG TEENAGE HMONG GIRLS in Laos).... the latter will usually be the bigger victim/target.
Yes, those young women DO EXPLOIT the stupidity of these older and elderly Hmong men from America, too.
But by and large, the real and long term victims are those young girls.
After all, who of us knew what the fuck we WERE doing ---- the so-called good and mature decisions we're making ---- back when we were 13, 14, 16, or 19?