Students will be able to describe the cultural, linguistic, and geographical differences of present-day Vietnam by exploring various sources and creating a collage.
Students will be able to analyze and articulate how Hmong American history has influenced and contributed to intergenerational trauma within the Hmong community, and they will critically examine the long-term impacts on successive generations. Students will also be able to identify how the Hmong community has engaged in healing practices as a response to coping with the trauma and make connections with present-day society and their own lives in a Socratic Seminar discussion.
Students will be able to describe the cultural attitudes and visions of the Vietnamese American refugee community that stem from the early stages of the Republic of Vietnam by analyzing literary and musical text and producing a medium of choice.
Students will learn about Hmong clan structures and gender roles along with factors that shape people’s lives and their identities, such as the social structure of patriarchy (patrilocality/patrilineality).
Students will reflect on the life of Cambodians and Cambodian Americans in America, focusing on their journey of resiliency and the symbolic story of donuts and pink boxes.
The Cham people are an ethnic minority in Cambodia making up about two percent of the total population. Most of the Cham people practice Islam and maintain their cultural identity through their own distinct language and traditions while living in a country that is predominantly Buddhist and Khmer speaking. The Cham have faced multiple challenges throughout history in Cambodia, especially during the period of Khmer Rouge.
Cambodia’s borders have changed significantly over time due to settlements, wars, colonialism, and treaties. The large territory that was controlled by the Khmer Empire in Southeast Asia which included present day Cambodia was redrawn after independence from France in the mid-twentieth century. Cambodia’s disputed border with Thailand has also been a flash point for conflict for decades.
