Walmart Shopper Tells Hmong Speaking Women To ‘Speak English’ – Their Reply Is Taking The Internet By Storm

Jasmine Xiong and her mother decided to shop at Walmart in Appleton, Wisconsin, on Black Friday. The two spoke in their native language, Hmong, when a woman interrupted them demanding they should “speak the language”.

Jasmine recorded the conflict and uploaded the footage on her personal Facebook profile with the caption: “Ignorant woman made a comment because my mom spoke Hmong to me at Walmart and she said ” If you live here in America, speak the language” so I called her out on it because America doesn’t have an official, single language, American English is just the most common, spoken language in America but I only got the last part of it so here ya go!”

“I was really shocked and upset and offended that she would say something like that,” Jasmine told USA Today as she opened up about what happened and how it made her feel.

In 1976, the first 50,000 Hmong people arrived in the United States as refugees from the Laos and Vietnam war.

Wisconsin is home to the third-largest concentration of Hmong people, following California and Minnesota. In total, there are roughly 250,000 people of the Hmong ethnicity currently living in the United States.

h/t: shareably

Source: Facebook/Jasmine Xiong