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User Generated Dubbing: American Idol in Hmong
Proof that User Generated Dubbing has now reached landlocked Laos: American Idol dubbed into Hmong.
Really amusing interpretive noises for emotion.
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© 2008 Thomas Crampton. 
The makers of the “Hmong dubb” videos are not in Laos, but Hmong living in the United States — you can see this from their YouTube profiles.
These videos are America’s cultural legacy from the so-called secret war in Laos: Thirty years later and the forced-blending of cultures brought on by the war and those who were forced to flee in its aftermath has produced this video and over a thousand others like it.
Just search “hmong dubb” on YouTube and you can watch William Hung sing “Hmong Pride Rangers” while the panel of judges looks on in horror…