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I. OPINION
  1. Staff Profiles

  2. Letters to Lao Vision
II. EDUCATION
  1. Considering Graduate School?
    2. by Douangchit Mounghane
  2. The Reward

    3. by Douangdeuane Douangdara
  3. Who Are the Lao?

    4. by Douangdeuane Douangdara
  4. Lao Geography

    5. by Douangdeuane Douangdara
III. CULTURE
  1. Lao Weddings

    2. by Montha Phavongxay
  2. Will You Not Miss Us?

    3. by Check Kirivong
  3. Lao New Year
    ປີໃຫມ່ລາວ
    (Lao & Eng.)
    by Douangdeuane Douangdara

  4. Growing Up Lao in America

    5. by Douangchit Mounghane
IV. FEATURE
  1. Who Makes Your Decisions?

    2. by Anonymous
  2. Colors in Between

    3. by Von PhrakonKham
  3. Interracial Relationships

    4. by Check Kirivong
  4. Children of War

    5. by Douangdeuane Douangdara
  5. You Ask Me Why

    6. by Von PhrakonKham
V. LITERATURE
  1. ຮີດ ສິບສອງ

    2. by Douangdeuane Douangdara
  2. Five Minutes

    3. by Von PhrakonKham
  3. Maa Thao

    4. by Von PhrakonKham
  4. ເລືອດລາວ

    5. by Douangdeuane Douangdara
  5. When Your Timing Is Ripe

    6. by Sounantha Phoumarath
VI. PROFILE
  1. Steve's Interview

    2. by Von PhrakonKham
VII. HEALTH
  1. Tobacco and Our Health

    2. by Douangchit Mounghane
VIII. RICE AND JAEW
  1. Recipes

    2. by Montha Phavongxay
  2. ສີ່ງທີ່ຄວນຄິດ
    by Sounantha Phoumarath

  3. Growing Up in the Eighties

    4. by Douangchit Mounghane
  4. Marriage: On Love Alone?
    by Sounantha Phoumarath


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You Ask Me Why
By Von Phrakonkam

You ask me why my eyes are so small…

'Cause that's all I need to see the concept of reality
How my people have suffered brutality
Because your lack of mentality
Your absence of morality
My people have witnessed fatality, endured hostility
No, not because of our inability, or our superb capability
But because of our nationality

You tell me why your eyes are so wide…

Yet you still can't see inside
That your people have lied, taken us for a ride
And you still haven't realized
That my people also have pride
That my people have tried and tried
But we still get eyed and denied
And it's because of whom we are inside

Then you wonder why I get so defensive…

When you say my eyes are small, yet they're so attentive
Hearing your people, your judgment-so offensive
Seeing your mind is so incomprehensive
Making our children, our elders so apprehensive
How badly it hurts, to the extreme, so extensive
Having to live in such a world
Where being equal is so expensive

You ask me how I can make such a statement
Close your mouth, and lend me your ears
I'll tell you what you need to hear
Shhh…listen

It's because I'm Khone Lao…that's how.
 
 

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