Mouathi Ngoc
Seventeen year old Mouathi Ngoc. Hmong people are important members in the community of ethnic minorities in Vietnam, with about one million people.They only get married to those they love and it is common for a Hmong girl to leave her home to follow her lover. The unique custom of “wife-abduction” is still practiced today in many Hmong communities.
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