The madness of importing Hmong people into America

Robert B., who in another post suggested that Li the beheader may be Hmong rather than Chinese (but then noted that the Hui people are also dark, like the Hmong), comments on something I said in the same post:

You wrote:

… a victim of being new in the country (in fact he had lived in Canada for four years). And these problems added up to the “stress of everything,” which makes entirely understandable that he “heard voices” which made him kill and cannibalize.

This is a common refrain for Hmong violence here in Minnesota. Apparently, the Hmong, being an aboriginal people (most likely the Hui are as well), cannot handle the speed of the modern world and this causes intense depression. For the Hmong, living here on the prairie, they feel a little better as tall buildings depress them. At any rate, they frequently go on a rampage and kill their entire family and then kill themselves.

The French took an allotment of Hmong and gave them a piece of jungle in French New Guinea, they like that much better and thrive there. They essentially went back to living in grass huts and living off the land. Which they more or less tried when they got here. They would put an entire family in one apartment—as many as 15 people. And the men would hunt everything from squirrels to song birds, dogs and cats on the urban landscape—basically anything they could kill. The would then hang the carcass out to dry on window sills and such. They even used their refrigerators as dry food storage shelves.

We just don’t get it. Living in a large urban area requires a high level of civilization which requires societal evolvement over time. Just as most American Indians could not make the leap forward of 10,000 + years, neither can these people. Aboriginal people are supposed to be supplanted by more advanced peoples—just as happened in Europe and elsewhere.

Michael N. writes:

I used to work on the Hill, and one of the issues I was responsible for as a legislative assistant was welfare. I remember reading with great interest about welfare participation rates by ethnic group in the U.S. (something which has, to my knowledge, never been reported in the MSM, even once), and I remember quite distinctly that the Hmong tribesmen had a national welfare participation rate of around 75 percent. As I recall, ethnic Japanese had the lowest rates, around 1 percent or so. Anyway, the data are extremely enlightening. I will also add that you must get the state-by-state figures, and you will note that West Virginia massively skews the data for a certain ethnic group that otherwise has very low numbers.

Hannon writes:

In the Hmong entry, Robert B. says “French New Guinea.” I knew the Dutch and English had a piece of that island, but the French? I think he means French Guiana, even if French New Guinea sounds satisfyingly plausible and exotic!

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 07, 2008 12:42 PM | Send