Since arriving in the United States in the late 1970s, many Hmong families still practice their rituals, but the number of traditional funerals preferred had dwindled due to a large number of Hmong, mostly the younger generations, converting to Christianity, financial, and more.
At these ceremonies there is usually an offering of an oxen, but there is no oxen in the United States, there is just cows and buffalos (Yang, 2011).