Originally Posted by WiLL

It is a book by Fadiman. Also very informative and emotional. I wa close to shedding a tear at times. It is a quantatative research on a Hmong family, focusing on their baby's seizures and the clash between two cultures (American and Hmong) in the hospitals. It is a great book that opened my eyes.

And this article being about a Hmong man, we have to realize what type of people these Hmong are. They are generally VERY recent refugees, and arent the type of people that easily assimulate to American cultures, meaning they are still hold a very strong sense of identity and pride. So strong, that I guess being told what to do, he had to retaliate.

But I am not trying to justify the incident. What he did was not right.