International Creole Day: In Louisiana, Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity • FRANCE 24

I'm Haitian & speak lHaitian creole and I understood 85%of what they said. This is fascinating. I would love ve to go to Louisiana and parlez.♥️🙏🏽

Whether you speak English, Creole or French they're all white man language.Not much difference in them

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Creole is a mix of African, Indian, Spanish and European. Or basically a Caribbean background, which is why Creole and Haitian is the same language. There's also the food originally called "Creole Cuisine" which includes Gumbo, Jambalaya, etoufe, coubion, rice dressing and boudin. Gumbo is from the African influence, herbs and spices from the Spanish and sauces from Europe. It was making due with limited foods.
Over the years, each generation lost touch with their Creole culture which made it easier for Cajuns to start to claim it as their own and even brand it. You can look up the lifestyles in the Caribbean areas and see similarities to Louisiana because of the Creole who brought it to Louisiana. If you look up the areas where Cajuns originally come from, like Quebec, Nova Scotia and Acadia, you'll notice they speak the same French as France and they do not eat any cuisines or have any spices. But being that 95% of Cajuns identify as white and 95% of Creoles identity as black, it's common that Cajuns have more reach to brand the culture. Mention Creole Cuisine or Creole language in front of white Louisianans and watch how they'll casually replace your word "Creole" with their word "Cajun" when responding to you.

Please keep the Creole and Cajun culture and language alive. Its all so beautiful

I love my people ❤️. We are a special culture.

You know being Creole is something to be very proud of. To be a Creole descendant, you understand through stories from older generations of your family history and what they sadly went through for their future generations to be free and equal to anyone. I’m British-Mauritian Creole (slightly mixed) and I’m very proud and feel enriched to embrace both my British and Mauritian cultures, it’s very empowering, especially understanding that my maternal grandmother was born from a slave and her French plantation master ‘husband’; my maternal grandmother only became free when she was 3 years old when her own mother died in childbirth and then her grieving father left the island and returned to France. The story how the slaved Mauritian Creoles became to be is an incredible history that was both brutal and savage but it became their resilient to be free and cultural, which continues to exist today. We have our own language and culture filled with incredible food, music and dance, a positive honour to our ancestors who’d suffered so awfully for us today to be free and equal to anyone. Creoles around the world need to fight to maintain their histories so that nobody forgets the truth and what we have overcome

He looks exactly like my great great grandfather who passed away

Does anyone know the name of the podcast? It's not mentioned in the video or in the description box.

I was born and raised in California but my dad’s family is originally from New Orleans. My great grandfather grew up in a water based community on Lake Ponchartrain. He had a very thick accent. Mind you, we are black with Creole/Cajun roots. I wish my family still spoke the language and preserved the culture. Whenever I acknowledge my Creole/Cajun heritage, people label me a “sellout.”

So interesting because many tried to make the source and husband French Indian or creole like this in New Orleans no that’s not Native American wasn’t us. Confusion with the carribean no one tried because that’s far from anything but no we aren’t French Indian creole from lousinana as Native Americans. Monique and Male supermodel lamon

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I couldn't understand what he was sayin

Cajuns get ignored all the time

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Cajun creole sounds more like moors to me lol

I lived in Louisiana 2 1/2yrs sadly I didn’t get to hear anybody speak this language it sounds amazing hearing it

My papa speak French yet we don't speak not one bit of it ☠️🤣🤭

I'm a French student and I understood everything. It's French and English traits combined, and therefore it's so easy to understand. It would be great for international communication to use this language.

I'm from shreveport louisiana my heritage run thru St Mary Louisiana I'll pay for a tutor to Teach me and my family

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My French Haitian former landlord spoke Haitian Creole and of course French. She would probably love to meet and speak with these people from Louisiana.

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I LOVE Lousian Creole and Cajuns, such a unique culture!

Louisiana Creole is similar to Haitian Creole which also similar to French Antilles Creole.

I'm creole and only kno a little about my culture

Woah, I'm from Pont Breaux and speak Creole. My grandparent could not read English and barely understood. I need to join the podcast

Im à Mauritian and 1 speak Mauritian creol I can understand them

But initially that term was first designated for europeans primarily of french decent. Also the vast majority of black people, slaves spoke creole and whites spoke cajun. Not to mention, Louisiana Creole language is mixed with Haitian kreyòl too. That's why it sounds like Haitian kreyòl.

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If this story is about International Creole Day, why is "Cajun" in the headline? "Cajuns" are by definition creole, but not all Louisiana creoles are "Cajuns."

These people speak a 500 year old French. This is because the English dumped 600 French Canadian families in the swamps of Louisiana to die, but they persevered instead.

There's a difference between Cajun and Creole, they're not the same. Creole has African influence.

If you ever talk with a true cajun you can't really understand what they say, neither can French people. It's a distorted version of french and English. The food is outstanding!

Bravo!

I was born in Belize (formerly British Honduras), and we all speak English Creole growing up and of course was schooled in the Queen's English. I was fascinated when I came to America and learnt that there were also creoles, but the language they spoke was nothing like the English creole. I do hope they preserve their language as it is a very unique language and is part of our history in America.