he Southeast Asian refugee community that formed in the Bronx following the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, today represented in part by the organization Mekong NYC, is substantially Vietnamese- and Khmer-speaking, but there have also reportedly been individuals who speak Lao (some of whom are also in the Thai area of Elmhurst) as well as Hmong and Mien, the two largest non-national languages spoken by Southeast Asian Americans, which are historically related but also highly internally diverse. Following the Vietnam War, many more speakers of these languages went as refugees to California, Minnesota, and elsewhere. One Hmong speaker reports that several dozen White and Green Hmong, many of whom came via the midwest, are now scattered around New York.