Dr yang dao biography sample
Dr yang dao!
Yang Dao's office is lined with photographs that tell his life story.
The 72-year-old, famous in the Hmong community, is believed to be the first Hmong person in the world to earn a Ph.D.
Dr yang dao biography sample
There's a picture of him as a young man, wearing a white jacket, serving in the National Council in the Kingdom of Laos.
When the communists took over in May 1975, Yang escaped with his family in the middle of the night — 37 people in four small cars.
Across the Mekong River in Thailand, the Hmong were homeless and stateless.
They'd been allies of the United States during the Vietnam War and had to flee as the U.S. pulled out.
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"No countries would like to take us," Yang recalled recently as he sat in his Brooklyn Park home.
Hmong people began arriving in Minnesota as refugees in 1975, but Yang says ther