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slacker03150 posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

well damn, just learned about the Hmong people for the first time the other from a movie. and now I see them being mentioned here. good movie too, think it was called Gran Turino. plot is basically old white racist dude eventually softens up and befriends his foreign neighbors. ending is quite unexpected.

Pretty good movie. I grew up in an area with a lot of refugees. We got along just fine, but doing a group project became a headache when every 5 minutes half your group would lapse into another language while the other half were left to wonder if they are discussing the project or making comments about classmates. And by the end of high school a majority of the hmong students self segregated themselves.

I grew up in a heavily mexican neighborhood so I almost know how you feel, but aside from not understanding what they where saying they mostly kept to themselves. now it did become a problem when I got a job their and I was by far the minority as a white male in a place mostly mexican. one dude seemed like he was intentionally trying to piss me off, he could speak perfect english yet would speak spanish to me when trying to ask or tell me to do something.
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