The etymology of compassion is Latin, meaning co-suffering.. Compassion involves feeling for another and is a precursor to empathy, the feeling as another capacity for better person centered acts of active compassion, in common parlance active compassion is the desire to alleviate another's suffering.
The Hmong people are in the U.S. as victims of US policies in the Vietnam War and then victims of persecution by Laos after the war. There are others who supported the U.S. but are still in Asia, facing persecution for their support of America. Many escaped to Thailand, but many of them have been forced back to Laos.
3 two Hmong families from different generations were designed to gain new perspectives of both as to what has changed, and what has remained the same in their beliefs and practices of the traditional Hmong kinship, marriage and family systems after living in the United States for more than 18 years.