{"id":429,"date":"2017-04-20T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/?page_id=429"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:17:22","slug":"pa-xiong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hmg\/pa-xiong\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa Xiong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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P<\/span><\/strong>a Xiong is a Social Work major at St. Olaf College. She is from Saint Paul, Minnesota and is the first daughter in her family to finish college. Xiong was also Vice President of St. Olaf\u2019s Hmong Women Dialogue. In the future, she plans to get more involved with the education system and the mental health field. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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\"I think that being Hmong has definitely pushed me to be less critical in a negative sense. I feel like women in our community is really policed on what we wear, what we do and how we are supposed to behave and stuff. \u00a0I feel like having attended college it has definitely helped me develop a sense of just being more open, because I have definitely just comply with those kind things like \"oh I'm not going to dye my hair because that's poj laib (rebellious) or wear tight clothes. But ever since coming to college I feel like I have definitely learned that sometimes you just gotta let people do what they want to do and not judge them because it's very superficial to just judge a person by outward appearance. \"<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>