Laotian Daughters Response

The article discusses the erasure of Laotian women's efforts in pushing for social change and inclusion, and the ways in which they use transnationalism to create change for many other Laotian and Asian Americans. The article states that American born or affluent Laotian women are able to bridge the gap between their parents and grandparents and here. The important role that Laotian women and other first generation born citizens have in being able to present the struggles of their home country and the United States is volatile to the greater inclusion of this small population in American culture. i can relate to this situation that is particular to underrepresented groups of people, the Latinx experience being similar to that of Laotians. There is a responsibility on assimilated children to not only blend into contemporary American culture, but also keep themsleves from being "white washed". One has to be the right amount of American and Laotian/Latinx. If the struggle of your race is ignored and the discrimination consists, it is the fault of this first generation for not being proactive, the need to make up for their parents sacrifices and fight for your children's future a supposed major part of being a person of color in America. Like the Laotian women, though, often the acts of rebellion go unnoticed. It is often not mentioned that American society creates a culture in which the issues of race are merely a Black and White problem, the acknowledgment of the problems of other minorities struggling in gaining platforms for their stances.