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Birth Name:
Brenda Julietta Song
Birth Place:
Sacramento, California, USA
Date of Birth:
March 27th, 1988
Ethnicity:
Hmong and Thai
The American actress is famous for her appearance in the films Leave it to Beaver and College Road Trip. She was born to a Hmong father who immigrated to the US from Laos. Her mother is Thai but was adopted by Hmong parents.
Her father’s family name was originally Xiong but was changed to Song after her father moved to the US. Song is fluent in the Hmong language and mentioned in an interview that her father encourage her and her brothers to speak Hmong at home to keep their culture.
Source:
http://hmongtoday.com/displaynews.asp?ID=2030
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Hmong people are their own culture and aren’t from Laos. Laotians are the only original natives of Laos. It just happens that Hmongs were forced to reside in parts of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and even Vietnam because they were kicked out of their own homeland. Their considered nomads and originate from somewhere in Mongolia. I am Laotian American and have much respect for Hmong immigrants who live in the US. Well, immigrants in general because of the harsh racism that they we all had to face during that time.
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i love brenda song! shes pretty and funny :) i think its cool how she speaks hmong at home!
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im not thai or hmong… but i am asian… filipino actually… GO ASAINS! :)
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:D SWEET IM HMONG 2! i had no idea she was
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She’s not cambodian , is she ?
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I didnt kno she was hmong and lived in Sactown as there is alot of hmong people there
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it´s funny, song is also a very common name in cameroon, central africa !!!!!!!
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She’s cute =]
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Hmong people are originally from Laos, a country bordering Thailand.
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not to sound stupid but what exactly is Hmong? What origin/country is that from?
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