While we may have been similar in stature, I cannot recall one instance of personal interaction with a Hmong individual during my time at Highland. I remember hearing references to “the boat people” which evoked images of small, crowded boats full of Asian kids, who incidentally, were the only ones at Highland who saw eye to eye with the Jewish kids. To say that they were welcomed would be an overstatement, as there was virtually no integration of the Hmong kids and the established high school community, and to my knowledge, there were no actions taken by the administration or other adults to help the established community learn anything about these newcomers, their culture or the circumstances that brought them to St. Paul, the population of which was probably diverse for that time and place, a substantial number of Hmong refugees were received into the student body.
Review: ‘The Bride Price’ Shows Parallels In Jewish, Hmong Cultures In my junior or senior year of high school at Highland Park Senior High School in St.
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