Hmong Social Stress

This book is about a group of people from the northwest highlands of Laos, called the Hmong. The Hmong have never had a country of their own and for centuries they have been at war with nations who have tried to control them. China tried to get rid of the Hmong culture and force them to follow Chinese ways. When that did not work, the Chinses tried to wipe out the Hmong all together. The Hmong fled China and to this day, they have run from nations who have tried to conquer them and destroy their culture. They did find a period of peace, in the mountains of Laos. They were left alone, because they lived so high up in the mountains that the Laos never tried settling the ground and the Hmong rarely saw anyone from outside their culture. In the mountains, the Hmong farmed, hunted, and made everything they needed by hand. They also grew opium and traded that to the lowland Laos for things they could not make themselves. The Hmong’s period of peace
Application 1 Stress plays a role in the daily life of everyone and can affect many aspects of life. The social stress paradigm relates the stress a person feels to their health. It states, stressors can be caused by many things, such as daily hassles and traumatic life events. Stressors do not always lead to stress. The same stressor could not affect one person, but could cause a different person stress. This is because the same stressor could happen in a different context, causing people to be differentially vulnerable to stressors (Lecture). Stress that is experienced does not always lead to distress. Coping strategies are a tool that can help to reduce the amount stress that ends up affecting someone’s health. Problem-focused coping strategy works on eliminating the stressor. If the stressor cannot be eliminated, then emotion-focused coping strategy can be used. It works on the response to the stress, which can be the most important coping strategy because a lot of stressors cannot be