Compare And Contrast Hmong And Chinese Culture

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The cultures between the Swedish and the Hmong people follow a similar path of struggle, conforming, and success. The Swedish people struggled from famine and needed a place to go to where jobs were abundant. While the Hmong also struggled from war and the after effects of war. These struggles brought a group of people with different cultures to one country, America. America became a place of refuge and a place to prosper. Many of the people succeeded in getting high paying jobs and would help America evolve into a better place. Although, this succession gave people a new hope, there are still discrimination within the country because of differences of culture and looks.
The Hmong and Swedish were never originally in America, but in their own homeland. The Hmong lived at South of China in the hilly mountains before they were oppressed the Qing dynasty. Once oppressed, the clans of the Hmong moved south into the hilly mountains of Laos peacefully for a millennium. The Swedish people lived in Sweden. The industrial Revolution arrived to Sweden and made the economy grow exponentially. "Most notably foreign trade expanded by leaps and bounds in the 1850s and 1860s. With new export sectors, industrial investments increased."(Schön) Industrial …show more content…

They would almost lose their traditions and languages. As jobs and the way of living in America requires to speak a different language and to lose the traditions to succeed. The Hmong has "the United States' first Hmong politician, a 32-year-old female lawyer named Mee Moua, was elected to the Minnesota State Senate in 2002."(Lai) They were able to successfully conform to the American way. The Swedish also were able to help America become the way it is today. Albert Ivar Appleton founded the Appleton Electric Company and Charles R. Walgreen founded the nations' largest drug store chain in 1901 called,

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