I thought I'd lighten up the mood here a bit, because everyone seems pissed off and tense...

I found this list on the internet, can't remember when, but enjoy!

you are welcome to add to the list too =P

i'm not sure if someone made a topic like this before but...ENJOY!!

You know you are Hmong when...

1. you/your parents owns a propane cooker in the garage.
2. you crave papaya salad every now and then.
3. Curry noodle nite is a big deal.
4. your weekends are booked with cow killing parties.
5. you know what a hmong knife is...
6. you have colored hair and you are automatically a gangster.
7. you try to be something you are not (EX. korean)
8. you watch hmong dubbed korean, thai, chinese, hindi movies/dramas.
9. you call everyone an FOB, even though you are one yourself.
10. you drink three days..two nites at a wedding.
11. you promise to kill and animal to heal someone.
12. someone comes to barrow money and you lie that you don't have any.
13. your parents say that you don't love them enough.
14. your parents say that you came to this country to get an education.
15. you crave laab.
16. you watch those corny but cool Hmong Action Movies.
17. you know how to bring on the Chai Vang.
18. you have seen at least one Hmong dubbed Kamen Rider episode/movie.
19. you have seen your mom walking around the house topless some time duirng your life time.
20. you have seen your father walking around the house topless some time during your life time.
21. you go to the Soccor/Volley Ball tournaments!!
22. you crave tapioca in a cup with ice.
23. there are large amounts of watermelons at your family picnics.
24. there is rice at every meal, and if there isn't, you feel as if the meal is incomplete.
25. eating out was a big deal.
26. a $3,000 car was too expensive.
27. a bride is $5,000 and up.
28. you have eaten boiled chicken, sticky rice
29. the coolest and biggest fish you have ever caught was a carp
30. You enter the house and trip on a pile of shoes [Yer Xiong (Lafollette High School)]
31. You don't use the front door.
32. you know you're hmong if you/your family owns more than one Toyota.
33. your family owns big pots that can fit your baby brother. [31 & 32 Bee Yang (Wisc Stevens Point) wrote]
34. "i'm african, but my boy is hmong, so that makes him african too and makes me hmong." Pedro Kialanda (Trinity Christian) wrote.
35. You think 5'8" is REALLY tall for a Hmong guy and we all run on "Hmong time" or at least know what that is...Pa Yiar Khang (Wisconsin) wrote.
36. u kno u hmong if u in this group, Chiey Cha (Wisconsin) wrote.
37. when you can recognize another hmong person,the mini-van is overstuffed with one too many people, either you or someone you know takes a gazillion of those studio wallet pictures, and when your mother owns a lot of those flower decorated dinner plates, See Her (Wayne State MI) wrote.
38. When any member of your family is watching TV [the news in particular], and whenever they hear the word HMONG on television, they scream out..."Hmoob os Hmoob os!!! Hmoob nyob ntawm TV os!!! Then the entire family comes running to see what it's all about, Lue Vang (Wisc Stevens Point) wrote.
39. WHEN YOU WALK IN A HOUSE AND YOU SEE BED SHEETS USED AS CURTAINS ....Douatchi Vue (NWTC) wrote.
40. when you're last name is Thao, Xiong, Vang, Yang, Her, Chang, Lee, Lor, Cha, etc..." you know..the 18-some clans, Zong Thao (Lafollette High School) wrote.
41. You know it's a hmong house when the curtains are tied and there's poppy growing out in the front/back yard...and weird swords hanging over the door...or a hundred kids screaming from the inside, KaBao Lee (Wisc Whitewater) wrote.
42. When you walk into a home and there's shaman money hanging on each door, when your family goes to a buffet and your mom lies that you're only 10 when you're really 14, when you're mom puts water, rice, and pepper in a bowl, pokes your fingers, toes, head, and neck with a needle, and tells you you'll be cured now from your illness, you're remember your mom replaced your earrings with sewing string, and when you eat meals with water in your in you're rice, Ntxheng-yeng Thao (Wisconsin) wrote.
43. Your parents compare who has the worst kids, You have a rice cooker and buy 100 lbs. of rice every month, Pa Houa Yang Wisconsin Milwaukee '08 wrote.


i really like no. 4, 12, 19, 23, 27 and ESPECIALLY 38

I like number 25 and 29.


25. eating out was a big deal.
29. the coolest and biggest fish you have ever caught was a carp

1. you/your parents owns a propane cooker in the garage.
3. Curry noodle nite is a big deal.
5. you know what a hmong knife is...
8. you watch hmong dubbed korean, thai, chinese, hindi movies/dramas. Hecks yea! it opened up the doorway of diversity for me!
14. your parents say that you came to this country to get an education. LOL.. which explains how I got into the field of study that I did.
19. you have seen your mom walking around the house topless some time duirng your life time. Nah, it was my grandma - she isn't shy about it.
25. eating out was a big deal. Yeah, like McDonald's and the Chinese Buffet
30. You enter the house and trip on a pile of shoes. We've recently bought a shoe rack!
31. You don't use the front door. Yeah, we use the garage door. I still don't know why.
35. You think 5'8" is REALLY tall for a Hmong guy. Shoot. I'm not complaining about height because I'm darn short.

Here are a few that come to mind:


44. your mom/grandmother has a garden in their backyard (and sometimes even in the front yard)

45. you/your family owns large, thick, intricately embroidered, mink blankets (a.k.a. "pam mev" or "mexican blanket")

46. you own (or used to own) a pair of rubbery sandals (a.k.a. khau khiab - usually came in primary colors like blue, red, green, and yellow)

1. you/your parents owns a propane cooker in the garage.
8. you watch hmong dubbed korean, thai, chinese, hindi movies/dramas.
19. you have seen your mom walking around the house topless some time duirng your life time.
25. eating out was a big deal.

these are the only ones i found that were funny to me

lol good stuff i like it alot

So how do you know if you're not hmong???

You know you are Hmong when...

1. you/your parents owns a propane cooker in the garage.
Hecks yeah.. and we used it this past Christmas for our family X-mas party too!

4. your weekends are booked with cow killing parties.
Nah.. that mostly happens with my other relatives who still practice Shamanism.

5. you know what a hmong knife is...
haha.. the all-purpose tool: cooking utensil, weapon, tree cutter, screw driver, ruler, etc.

6. you have colored hair and you are automatically a gangster.
haha.. yeah.. but colored hair with a college degree and a job seems to cancel out the gangster label

25. eating out was a big deal.
Oh yeah. I remember the first time we ate a Chinese restaurant and my siblings and I had our first Wonton soup!

26. a $3,000 car was too expensive.
haha.. nah.. may family always gets brand new cars

27. a bride is $5,000 and up.
My daddy says I'm for free.

32. you know you're hmong if you/your family owns more than one Toyota.
Nah.. all American cars for my family... but the hilarious part is whenever we're looking for a Hmong family's house, we usually check for import vehicles on the driveway.

33. your family owns big pots that can fit your baby brother.
Yeps.. and if possible, we place that huge@ pot on the propane tank in the garage!!!

39. WHEN YOU WALK IN A HOUSE AND YOU SEE BED SHEETS USED AS CURTAINS ....Douatchi Vue (NWTC) wrote.
I know my family sooo did this back in Detroit.

^ lol you're for free, that's every hmong guys dream, to get a hmong wife for free... I like the free ones too I guess, but they don't have to be hmong either.

I guess I'm on sale?!

If that's the case then, I think it's prostitution.

Ha! no, Silly. 'Sale' as in a big sale

Gotcha, sale as in wal-mart sale lol.

wow.. my family is so not hmong then. lmfao.
i did not have the following in my childhood
or in my house.. thank goodness my parents
are different.. i would never ever have bed
sheets for curtains, i do not think about laab or
papaya, or watch those retarted @$$ movies.
oh and my last car my dad got me was a good
22gs. it was worth it to the last penny. my family
doesn't believe in cheap vehicles. they break
too easily. my older brother is 5'9 so it already
scratched out the one about 5'8. never seen
my parents nude or the top part ever in my life--ew!
haven't ever in my life done any animal killings
before and i never intend too.. thats discusting.
have someone else do it.. yeesh.. there is a place
in mn where someone else will do it for you.
my parents never told me that i don't love them..
i tell them that i do.

i am not the average hmong person. lol.

wow i thought every hmong person at least went through one of these phase. my mom still walks around the house topless. parents still watch those indian dubbed hmong movies. im definitely the tallest guy in my family, 5'8. just before i went home on leave my folks had a cow killing party, so when i went home there was enough meat for everyone. everytime we have people over the house we got to be mindful of the shoes that are just scattered everywhere. thinking about buying a shoe rack but proabably never get around too it.

hahaha. quite funny. I've never seen a list like this before generalizing what hmong is. I don't find any in the list to fit me. I'm Hmong, but not in those ways. I'm wondering now, who made up this list? looks to me, it's implying what the standards are for hmong? I wouldn't know if it's about the typical hmong family, either. :P

ahahaha hilarious.. so true but most do not apply toward my family and i. lmao

I got some for you...


100. Potted indoor plants (not for decoration like flowers, but for medicinal purposes)

101. Your medicine cabinet consists of mostly: 50 species of tree bark, dried roots, various rocks, and even dehydrated lizards.

102. And when you complain about a toothache, they boil you a whole "black" chicken. And you have to eat it ALL. Skin included.

103. Your kitchen has these kinds of chairs:


104. The wall behind your stove is lined with sheets of aluminum foil (atleast in Minnesota)

ahah very true about them chairs. we got like 10 box with 5 in each.....party.......and weddings......

urm.. really? wow.. my cabinet consists of pharmacy medicines, herbs, dried roots.. YES.. lmao.. but lizards?????? AHAHAHA

and the black chicken thingy? wow.. i have never done anything like that before. LMAo...