Zafra’s Reviews > The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures > Status Update
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I hit a paragraph where the author took a painstaking amount of evidence to highlight how the Hmong are 'unusually attentive parents' and proceeded to compare them to Caucasian parents.
The measuring stick is white normalcy, and the Hmong are unusual. This is the common thread throughout what I've read so far. I've always been wary of white authors writing about 'exotic' minorities, but I expected more.
— Jan 03, 2026 09:53PM
I hit a paragraph where the author took a painstaking amount of evidence to highlight how the Hmong are 'unusually attentive parents' and proceeded to compare them to Caucasian parents.
The measuring stick is white normalcy, and the Hmong are unusual. This is the common thread throughout what I've read so far. I've always been wary of white authors writing about 'exotic' minorities, but I expected more.
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