In this week’s readings, we have the Louisa Schein’s Article, “Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics, and the Materializing of Memory” that gives interesting accounts of Hmong culture, specifically the holidays and spiritual practices of this ethnic group. In the three accounts, the author makes it clear the impacts of history from being displaced from their homeland to these other host lands for Hmong folks, like a China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam ultimately to the states as current Hmong Americans. The most interesting part is the perspective this gives / speaks to is “internal divisions and political struggles that emerge in the process of homes land representations, definition, and deployment” (723), issues her ally talked about throughout our course.
Q: What does it mean when the author mentions that the homeland acts as political capital referred to in the “recipient of benefaction shapes the kinds of alliance, exchange, and exploitation that takes place”?
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