An interesting story about the Hmong people getting into university in Michigan. DP
From China to Laos, Thailand to Detroit, the Hmong have been searching for a home. Is the university it?
Michigandaily.com: A concentrated piece of limbo between the industrial hum of Warren and the trickling sprawl toward downtown, Northeast Detroit is a fiefdom ruled by Cash-N-Go's, Coney Islands and places of worship. The occasional Asian grocery store and church dot the landscape. At the heart of the neighborhood sits a public high school, middle school and elementary school, arranged in stair-step formation behind the block of 7 Mile and Hoover Road.
Welcome to the home of one of the highest Hmong concentrations in the United States.
Despite being one of the largest minority groups in Southeast Asia, the Hmong (pronounced mung) have long been misunderstood.
Like Asian gypsies, they have been historically persecuted, thousands of years ago in China and later, Laos. During the Vietnam War and Laotian conflict, the Hmong fled to Thai refugee camps.
From there, many immigrated to the United States, settling in Merced and Fresno in California, Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota. The Hmong moved to Wisconsin, Connecticut and Detroit. Detroit held the promise of factory jobs, often the best-available option for new immigrants with little grasp of English and large families to support.
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.
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