People
Terminology
Important places
Cultural barriers
Fight and Flight
100
Lia Lee's sister who slammed the door.
Who is Yer.
100
Field researcher that conducts participant observation and semi-structured interviews.
What is an ethnographer.
100
Country that the Lee's call their homeland.
What is Laos.
100
Reason, the Lees believe, Lia became sick.
What is soul loss.
100
Irony in its name, this war averaged one bomb attack every eight minutes and more than two million tons of bombs in total were dropped on Laos by mostly American planes.
What is the "Quiet" war.
200
Lia's parents.
Who are Foua and Nao Kao Lee.
200
Understanding the ways of other cultures and not judging these practices according to one's own cultural ways.
What is cultural relativism.
200
State, other than California, where many Hmong refugees were places through a refugee replacement program.
What is MN or WI.
200
Motrin (anti- inflammatory), Elavil (an anti-depressant), and vitamin B-12.
What is a Hmong cocktail.
200
The Hmong feared reprisals from the North Vietnamese, who had recently inflamed old antagonisms by confiscating Hmong opium crops to trade for weapons.
What is one of the reasons the Hmong agreed to fight for the U.S.
300
Ethnographer who did field work in Ban Vinai.
What is Dwight Conquergood.
300
The differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and survival of a disease and the related adverse health conditions that exist among specific population groups.
What is health disparities.
300
City where the Lee's lived in America.
What is Merced, California.
300
Foua and Nao Kao, finding Lia's physicians incapable of compromise, decided that they would incorporate this philosophy into Lia's treatment regime.
What is "a little medicine and a little neeb"
300
The CIA supported Hmong leader of the Armee Clandestine.
Who is General Vang Pao.
400
The only American who fully won the Lees' trust.
Who is Jeanine Hilt, their social worker.
400
Judging other cultures by the standards of your own, which you believe to be superior.
What is ethnocentrism.
400
Refugee camp in Thailand where many Hmong settled.
What is Ban Vinai.
400
18 month financial supplement program that - when the eligibility ran out - triggered a Hmong migration within the U.S. to states with better welfare programs
What is Refugee Cash Asistance (RCA).
400
Immigrants who do not assimilate after migration.
What is an involuntary migrant.
500
MCMC's former chief resident, versed in cultural relativism from years spent in the Peace Corps in Micronesia.
Who is Bill Selvidge.
500
Hispanic people return to Mexico after temporary employment, retirement, or severe illness, meaning that their deaths occur on Mexican soil and are not taken into account by mortality reports in the United States
What is the "Salmon bias effect"
500
My hometown and location where I conducted research on Lao and Japanese expatriate communities.
What is Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
500
American airlifts rescued only officers (left all others behind), not all Hmong weren't automatically admitted to U.S., ineligibility for veteran benefits post-arrival to U.S., Americans condemning Hmong for receiving welfare, and stopping welfare altogether.
What are the five betrayals felt by the Hmong.
500
This treaty called for a cease-fire in Laos, a coalition government, and the end of American air support (USAID discontinued relief program).
What is the Vientiane Agreement.
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