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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–present. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: 𖬃𖬰𖬨𖬵 𖬖𖬰𖬜, Chinese-Mandarin: 王陛; 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. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Wikipedia

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   OCLC. 47352453. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.

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. Yia Vang - Wikipedia

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   Vang was born in Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand after his family had fled Laos at the end of the Vietnamese War after the fall of Saigon. [2] [3] His father, Nhia Lor Vang, and mother, Pang Her, both widowed during the crossing of the Mekong, met at the camp in 1977 and married in 1978. [4] [1] Vang was born in 1984.

7. List of Hmong people - Wikipedia

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   Lormong Lo, former Omaha City Councilman. Luo Zheng, 罗正, 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.