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Hmong Culture - Food, Eating and Cooking
Diverse Cultures in America - Soc 240
Upper Iowa University

The Hmong people are originally from rural mountainous areas in Laos and they still inhabit that country to this day. Laos is a country that is located in Southeast Asia. Hmong people are divided into clans or tribes that share the same paternal ancestry. The Hmong people inhabited all parts of Laos but all carried pretty much the same cultures and livelihood with them as many immigrated to the United States in the past few decades (Ohio State University, 2005).

One of the important parts of Hmong culture is their food. The Hmong staple food is white rice. Their diets consist of a variety of vegetables, fish, meat and traditional spices. They eat three meals a day and snacking, as the American people do, is not part of their native culture. Hmong foods are very simple and easy to make, this is due to the fact that the Hmong were limited to the foods they had in their native......

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