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Analysis Of Hmong Cultures To Create Gender Equity By Kaying Yang

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KaYing Yang, a longtime social justice activist, gave a lecture titled “Transforming Cultures to Create Gender Equity”. The lecture was a part of the Southeast Asian Heritage Lecture Series as it dealt with Hmong culture. KaYing Yang described the hardships that Hmong girls experience throughout all their lives simply due to their gender. Females are not as important as males in Hmong culture which results in serious sexism. From their birth boys are favored, given more attention, provided with more education. Also, once girls grow up they are forced to marry young and to do whatever their husbands say, even if he is abusive. According to KaYing Yang this serious issue that often goes unknown and unmentioned.
The message of KaYing Yang’s lecture affects me personally because I am a female. Although I don’t live according to an incredibly sexist culture, I still see the importance of helping other women overcome sexual injustices. I know that they are worth more than their Hmong culture believes. As a female I also know that they are strong and can overcome the obstacles that KaYing Yang mentioned. Women have been oppressed in many different …show more content…

Yang mentioned how Hmong culture makes its way into American school systems and communities. She described how it is hard for a school counselor to help a Hmong child that is having family issues. Often times outsiders don’t know the culture and don’t quite understand how complex it is. When a Hmong child is having a hard time due to his parents fighting the teacher’s initial thought would be to talk to the mother and have her solve the issue. However, in Hmong culture, as has been mentioned before, Hmong women are quite powerless. They have to stand by their husbands no matter how abusive they are. This is very hard for an outsider of the Hmong community to comprehend, so it makes others in the community quite powerless to help as

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