Ad
related to: hmong movie 2011 watchyidio.com has been visited by 100K+ users in the past month
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Fresno, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, activist. Years active. 2008βpresent. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: π¬π¬°π¬¨π¬΅ π¬π¬°π¬, Chinese-Mandarin: ηι; 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 Torino as Thao Vang Lor.
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.
As of the 2010 census, 260,073 Hmong people reside in the United States, [103] the majority of whom live in California (91,224), then Minnesota (66,181), and Wisconsin (49,240), an increase from 186,310 in 2000. [104] 247,595 or 95.2% are Hmong alone, and the remaining 12,478 are mixed Hmong with some other ethnicity.
Background. 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. Six months after his birth, his family entered Minnesota as refugees, and he was raised in the city of St. Paul. While in middle school, Doua joined the choir and theater classes at a teacher's suggestion; he also participated in ...
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.
Kao Kalia Yang (born 1980) is a Hmong American writer and author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir from Coffee House Press and The Song Poet from Metropolitan Press. Her work has appeared in the Paj Ntaub Voice Hmong literary journal, "Waterstone~Review," and other publications. She is a contributing writer to On Being's Public ...
Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday to say goodbye to Minnesota comedian and Hmong community activist Tou Ger Xiong, who was allegedly kidnapped and killed last month while on a trip to Colombia.
Hmong Americans ( RPA: Hmoob Mes Kas, Pahawh Hmong: " π¬π¬£π¬΅ π¬π¬²π¬¦ π¬π¬² ") are Americans of Hmong ancestry. Many Hmong Americans immigrated to the United States as refugees in the late 1970s. Over half of the Hmong population from Laos left the country, or attempted to leave, in 1975, at the culmination of the Laotian Civil War .
Ad
related to: hmong movie 2011 watchyidio.com has been visited by 100K+ users in the past month