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“Lia’s case had confirmed the Hmong community’s worst prejudices about the medical profession and the medical community’s worst prejudices about the Hmong.”

It’s tragic how the family and their people went from being super independent, working their own land and being self-sufficient, to being fully dependent on welfare. The Americans around them have no idea how much they have lost or how much they have changed, despite how grounded the Hmong still remain in their cultural traditions.