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BTW I intentionally didn’t say “passive-aggressive”.

Continue to patronize good folks that don’t support the bigotry and empower them and encourage them to stand up to the owner (in addition to communicating with the owner directly). A blanket “I won’t go there now” does nothing in this case.

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Those businesses are already scraping by on almost nothing. If they go belly up, nobody is going to connect it to the consequences of a stupid political position and they certainly aren’t going to join forces and revolt when they have no other way of making a living. There aren t exactly dozens of places a Hmong takeout will have enough demand to thrive on a standalone basis.

Your intent is noble but I think your actions are meaningless at best.

p.s. You know it but for the benefit of the masses….I don’t support the amendment either.

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They start noticing that their clientele and revenues are dropping and they may:

1. Start bitching to the ownership to change their public political ploys.

2. Go out of business and can’t pay rent which in turn affects the ownership.

3. Move to a new location.

There must be consequences to political action by business and the best way to affect change is to not support businesses which support stupidity.

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This could be one of those situations where the strip mall owner/property owner puts up political signs that the individual stores themselves don’t support.

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The best part of that link is when you click on the link to see who is out there on the No side. It must be 25-1.

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Companies That Support the Marriage Amendment

Bethel World Outreach Church, Inc.
Genadek Landscaping and Excavating, Inc.
Hmong Village Shopping Center
Northland Counseling Services
Radio Bendicíon
Solid Rock Ministries, Inc.
Spanish Now
The Marden at Rivers Edge

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I dont know much about Hmong origins, but i think they are peoples that inhabit parts of indochina over to Northern Thailand and into the highlands of
Cambodia and Vietnam… i was in northern Thailand once and had some interesting foods… very different than traditional Thai food… and the traditional clothing up there is similar to what i see some older Hmong people wearing here.

Well done sir.

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A few points on the Hmong/Vietnam. I am not sure, but I think in most cases the Hmong were regarded as our allies in Vietnam and were actually persecuted before and after our involvement because of their fight against communist North Vietnam (China).

My father, and many of his friends, served in Viet Nam, and I am profoundly grateful for the service of all the men and women in the military, both then and now.

IMO “We Were Soldiers” is an incredible book about the early days in Viet Nam, and does cover some of the French involvement which predates ours by some 20 years. As noted, the whole region has been in conflict, not for decades or centuries, but for 1000′s of years. I have been told by someone who was there that parts of the book are incredibly accurate.

For those who are interested, there is also a book written by a gentleman I know, that details his experience in Viet Nam. Its not glamourous, and will probably make you question our involvement, but it is an interesting/accurate portrayal from an “amateur” author, about his time in Viet Nam. Its called “We Were the Third Herd” by Richard F Hogue.

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You’re absolutely right; we CAN’T understand. That’s why I am awed by the Asians who come here, live next door to born enemies, and just keep going. How do you do that?

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fyi, it’s not the vietnamese war wall in washington, it’s the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. i wear a KIA bracelet remembering a SP4 on panel 2w/L55, at the time one of 58,191 kia’s. the number has increased by a few over the years, still very sad.

a good read is Hell in a Very Small PLace, what the US inherited from our french brothers.

when you have s.e. asian generations born, raised and die in conflict, being the only life you know, what chance if any, would you or i understand what’s going on ‘over there’ let alone the military trying to fight a ‘real war’?

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That reminds me of when my husband and I visited the visiting Vietnamese War wall up at the Capitol several years ago. My husband was studying a time line of Vietnamese history, and he wondered, “How did we ever think we could win a war with these people? The Chinese fought them for a thousand years, and they couldn’t beat them.”

A thousand years of territorial wars. I can’t even grasp it.

As to prohibiting a language, there are examples of it happening in history. The native dialect of Alsace, France, for example, was outlawed by both the French and the Germans, when either held the province, so the influence of the other would be annihilated.

Could it be possible that the Hmong language had ties to a society to which some reigning Chinese dynasty objected?

Ha, wrap your mind around THAT sentence and tell me that English shouldn’t be prohibited, at least for some of us. : )

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