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ABSTRACT
Although hegemony has been understood as the property of nation-states and the ruling classes, this paper explores cultural hegemonies among diasporic peoples by examining the pervasive compliance of Hmong living in Laos and the United States with the principles of their kinship system. Since these kinship rules are inculcated through parental education from an early age and are seen as essential for maintaining the cohesion of their dispersed diasporic community in the absence of a territorial ancestral homeland, they have become culturally engrained and taken-for-granted by Hmong through their voluntary consent and no longer have to be enforced by overt power and coercive means. However, like all hegemonies, the Hmong kinship system may also confront increasing challenges and contestation as it is enacted in the different nation-states where Hmong reside, and may eventually become an ideology that needs to be actively enforced and imposed by the direct use of power.
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This article analyses the social implications of the recent mass conversions to Protestantism by one-third of the one million Hmong in Vietnam. The conversions have been condemned by the Vietnamese state, while being understood by international human rights activists as acts of conscience on the part of the Hmong converts. This article focuses on the internal debate and divisions surrounding conversion among the Hmong themselves. The converts believe that Protestantism is the only way to alter the ethnic group's marginal status in Vietnam while the unconverted Hmong see conversion as a betrayal of Hmong ethnicity. Such conflicting views have been causing deep fractures in Hmong society.
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142774
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The fall of Saigon in 1975 set into motion a chain of events that eventually led to a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of peoples of different ethnicities from Laos into neighbouring Thailand. Most of these refugees eventually resettled in various countries, including the United States, France, Canada, Australia and others. One of these ethnic groups is the Hmong. The Vietnam War and its aftermath resulted in the splintering of the Hmong in Laos from a historically solidary ethnic group to one that is comprised of warring factions fuelled with mistrust and hatred that continue to resonate even today.
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