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The Hmong Family's True Writing System

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However, I personally think it is wrong to convert to Christianity just to run away from what you are and I believe most Hmong family do so just for that reason. The culture is so rich and beautiful that it hurts to see a Hmong child not being able to speak Hmong. You identify yourself as Hmong; you are Hmong-American, but you can’t speak the language. I am ashamed that the parents of the child didn’t teach their children the language. The Hmong writing system is almost gone where only few elders know them. We were given the English alphabet and borrow that writing system from Americans. It saddens me that the English alphabet is the only form of Hmong I know how to write and I won’t ever be able to learn my culture’s true writing system. I

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