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  2. Gran Torino - Wikipedia

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    Gran Torino. Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. This was Eastwood's first starring role since 2004's Million Dollar Baby. The film features a large Hmong-American cast (the first time for an American mainstream film), [4] as well as one of Eastwood's younger sons, Scott.

  3. Bee Vang - Wikipedia

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    November 4, 1991 (age 32) Fresno, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, activist. Years active. 2008鈥損resent. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: 饢瑑饢饢饢 饢瑬饢饢瑴, Chinese-Mandarin: 鐜嬮櫅; born November 4, 1991) is an American actor and activist of Hmong descent. He is best known for starring in Clint Eastwood 's 2008 film Gran ...

  4. Hmong people - Wikipedia

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    The Hmong immigrant population of Detroit is a central focus of the 2008 film Gran Torino, though that city does not have a significant Hmong population. Religious persecution [ edit ] Hmong Catholics , Protestants and animists have been subjected to military attacks, police arrest, imprisonment, forced disappearances , extrajudicial killings ...

  5. Hmong customs and culture - Wikipedia

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    The Flower Hmong are known for very brightly colored embroidered traditional costumes with beaded fringe. An important element of Hmong clothing and culture is the paj ntaub, (pronounced pun dow) a complex form of traditional textile art created using stitching, reverse-stitching, and reverse applique.

  6. Doua Moua - Wikipedia

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    Doua Moua (born February 7, 1987) is an American actor and writer best known for his roles as Spider in the 2008 film Gran Torino and Po in Disney's live-action Mulan. Background [ edit ] Doua Moua was born in a refugee camp in Thailand to Laos-born parents of Hmong descent who had fled their homeland because of the Laotian Civil War . [1]

  7. Hmongtown Marketplace - Wikipedia

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    Hmongtown was the first Hmong-owned and operated market in the United States. [18] [19] The market was founded as International Marketplace [18] [20] in 2004 by Saint Paul, Minnesota entrepreneur Toua Xiong. [1] Hmong people were persecuted in their homelands following the Laotian Civil War known as the Secret War and Xiong wanted a place for ...

  8. List of Hmong people - Wikipedia

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    Lormong Lo, former Omaha City Councilman. Luo Zheng, 缃楁, Miao singer, actor, and former member of the Chinese project boy group MR-X. Luj Yaj, singer from Thailand. Mai Neng Moua, writer. Mai Vang, first Hmong woman elected to the Sacramento City Council. Mary Thao, first Hmong woman elected to office in Wisconsin.

  9. Mother (2011 film) - Wikipedia

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    The film is based on a true story and tells about two Chinese children transplanted in Mongolia, where they are adopted by Qiqigema Erji against the wishes of her husband, and raised as nomads. Once Chen Chen, one of the children, knows about his biological parents twenty years later, he leaves for Shanghai. The other child, Yu Sheng, also ...

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