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> Helping to Understand: The Hmong's story
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> Anne Fadiman wrote an eye-opening book titled, The
> Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Fadiman is
> the editor of The American Scholar and has been
> published numerous times. In this book, she has
> documented the life of Hmong immigrants in Merced,
> California. I think she thought it was important to
> tell this story of the Lee family to open everyone's
> eyes to different cultures. Most of the field work
> took place in city of Merced. Here, she ran into
> some problems while gathering her information. The
> language barrier was obviously a huge one. Luckily,
> she found a few translators to interpret this
> complex language of the Hmong. Something that I
> thought she did a great job on was taking everyone's
> various opinions and tying them all together. Anne
> spoke with educated doctors, racist townsmen,
> teachers of the Hmong children and the elders of the
> Hmong culture, and......

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