{"id":155,"date":"2017-01-22T21:51:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T03:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:17:12","slug":"touazeng-lor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/touazeng-lor\/","title":{"rendered":"Touazeng Lor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Touazeng Lor<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Touazeng Lor<\/b><\/p>\n

A<\/span><\/strong> first generation Hmong-American, Touazeng is originally from Laos where he spent a majority of his childhood growing up in the jungle hiding from the Communists. After gaining a sponsorship from his sister and brother-in-law, he was able to bring his father, mother, younger brother, and his wife to the United States in 1987 as refugees. Currently a broker with a home-based business, he has been heavily involved with the Hmong community since his arrival in Minnesota such as being the Vice President of the Hmong 18 Council. Touazeng is a proud father of four children and grandfather to his newborn granddaughter. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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\"But high school is really . . . high school, go back to high school is really stereotype. It\u2019s really, I feel it\u2019s . . . I feel they really talk about you. Yeah, they really talk about you. Kids, they fight a few times. I did not fight yet, but many of my group, you know Asian, Vietnamese, Laotian, some of the other Asian people have a lot of fight with Caucasian and Black, like that. So it\u2019s really . . . I do not want to use the word race, racist, like that, but during my time in high school and many of us immigrants don\u2019t speak English well. They make fun, they make face, they talk about you, they call you names, call you chinks, call you all kind of things. They just think that all of us Asians are Chinese. So they call us chinks, they call us names, all kind of things, go back to your country, all kind of things. So it\u2019s really hateful I will say, I don\u2019t want to say racist or hateful, but you can feel like that\"<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>