First-generation Hmong Americans often struggle to understand their parents' strict expectations, realizing that their parents' harshness stems from their own traumatic experiences and desire for their children to have better lives, rather than hatred or lack of love.
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But I think for me, it was as a young mom American girl who's the first generation in her family to be born here, how do I reckon with understanding where my parents are coming from, but also understanding who I want to be?
And I took so long for me to understand that like my parents they don't hate me.
They don't want me to be happy. It's just they suffered so much.
>> Right.
That they wants better for us cuz they didn't get that.
Right? And then I think about the the generational trauma of how my parents were parented.
And how they reflected that parenting that they
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