The Culture Of The Creole Culture

Nous sommes Acadiens. (We are Acadians.) Some outsiders see us as a quaint, virtuous people, spending a great deal of time singing, dancing, praying, and visiting? (Conrad, 1978, p.14). Others see us as independent and unsophisticated. We see ourselves as fun-loving, carefree, happy, proud people who have a great love for our culture. The Acadians were French settlers of eastern Canada who were exiled from their land in the 1750?s. The Acadians are known to have settled in the southern bayou lands of Louisiana around that time. The Acadiana people acquired their nickname, ?Cajuns,? from those people who could not pronounce Acadians correctly. Due to the opinion that Cajuns were ?different?, they lived close together and became isolated

Puerto Rican culture is very unique and diverse and is mainly influenced by its past. It is a melting pot of Taino Indian, Spanish, African, and American cultures, which is what makes Puerto Rico unique. Puerto Rican music, clothing, food, traditions, holidays, languages, and religions are all influenced from the diversity of the population. The official languages are Spanish and English because of the long period of time when Spain ruled and then later, when it became U.S. territory. The majority of the population of Puerto Rico is also Roman Catholic or Protestant again, because it was ruled by the Spanish Crown for over an extended period of time.

As of 2015 the U.S Census Bureau revealed that approximately 116 million families are living in the United States. These families possess their own unique style, culture and set of beliefs. My family, consisting of my married parents and my older sister, are no different in the aspect that we too hold our own set of beliefs. The socially constructed term ‘family’ traditionally is defined as a unit that is related by marriage or blood, share financial responsibilities and care for any children/dependents (Lofquist et al., 2012). Growing up as a Haitian American, my ideas of what it means to be a family have been greatly influenced by my cultures and my religion. The Haitian culture greatly emphasizes family relationships and familial

Culture is defined by specific values and belief systems. Culture is who you are, your surroundings, and your traditions. Culture helps shape our behavior, since we're born,a nd raised into a specific culture. The vidoe what is culture, states that culture is learned behavior inspired by people that come from a specific group. I was raised in a Haitian family, and growing up Haitian was definately interesting. Growing up in a strict family, and being the only girl, out of 4 brothers, I grew uo literally walking on a straight line. It was like, if you are a girl, you are looked down on, if you do anything wrong. You are also looked at, as if you've shamed your own family. Growing up in the haitian culture has raised me to be just like my mother.

Despite living and looking like grand blancs, they were mistreated. Last came slaves. Now that the social classes have been explained, the Haitian Revolution and its relationship with the French one can be better understood.

The culture I choose to explore is the Hispanic culture. I choose this culture because many of the people I work with and many of my friends identify with the Hispanic culture and I feel it would be interesting to know more about a culture that is so relevant to my life. A few of the big things in Hispanic culture that I found interesting are language, traditions and food. Hispanic refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture.

Louisiana is a place with a lot of history and some say the best food in the world. "Creole" is a word that refers to the French colonists who came to Louisiana in the 18th century. Creole food are from French foods because that's what the colonists would made for themselves. Since Louisiana is a hot and wet climate they had to change some of their cooking to use food sources they were available for them to use. Since settlers from other countries came to Louisiana their food also influenced Creole cooking.

New Orleans culture is a melting pot of Spanish, French, Mexican, Native American, and African descent. Creole is a term that refers to mixed-race natives of Louisiana. Many creoles were free and their ancestors often had the same rights as white people. They often received formal education and owned property and slaves. Creole culture was catholic and French-speaking as opposed to the Protestant and English-speaking whole of America. This amalgamation of cultures created a safe haven for personal expression, and caused the development and evolution of the culture and Jazz music.

American immigrants found them to be quite exotic, for the black Creoles were Catholic, French or Creole speakers, and accustomed to an entirely different lifestyle.

In documents E & F, both explain how the Creoles had led the fight socially. Stated in Document E, “Father Hidalgo, a Mexican revolutionary priest, declared himself in open revolt against Spain. He led about 600 followers, mostly Indians and mestizos, to fight against the injustices of the Spanish colonial system.” Father Hidalgo had been a Creole and he wanted to encourage lower class citizens to revolt, and other Creoles did not support him. He had led people to fight against the injustices of the Spanish. Socially, the Creoles had been on the top and they had wishes to stay there. Additionally written in Document F, “The Creoles were intensely aware if social pressure from below, and they strove to keep the coloured people at a distance.” “...when the monarchy collapsed in 1808, the Creoles could not allow the political vacuum to remain unfilled, their lives are property unprotected.” The Creoles had truly felt the heat from the other social classes. They had believed that if they did not seize the opportunity, then other danger would come. The Creoles had anticipated a rebellion that had been popular among all the other classes. To conclude, the Creoles had to secure their spot on the social pyramid and make sure that the lower classes did not overthrow them and revolt against them. The Creoles had been successful and what they had wanted to

The mulatto elite separated themselves from the black masses by assimilating the morals and manners of the slaveholding aristocracy. They acquired as a part of their family traditions the patterns of behavior which were associated with the idea of the southern lady and southern gentleman. As a rule, these families formed a closed circle from which were excluded all who could not boast of similar ancestry and did not conform to the same standards of morals and manners. They were self-conscious of their “culture” which consisted of the enjoyment of English and, in Louisiana, French classical literature music. They maintained literary societies in which they could enjoy and foster their “culture.” The patterns found in rural as compared to urban black communities changed. The folk tradition of the

Throughout the course of time, Acadians gradually began intermarrying with the other settles in the area. Hispanics, Old World and Canadian French, Native Americans, and enslaved Americans are all examples of such. This resulted in what became known as the French Creole culture. Cajuns are the descendants of the Acadians that were exiled by the British, and make up a large portion of southern Louisiana’s population. Several of the current residents of the Atchafalaya Basin area can trace their family all the way back to the Acadians. Their unique way of doing things, whether that be through the food, music, or traditions, greatly show their Cajun heritage.

For Ira Berlin, starts off by telling us about a planter receiving his African slaves off the vessel. Once the planter picked the "strong" ones, he decided to strip them off their culture by renaming every single one of them; the planter used names such as Tom, Molly, or even a name of a barnyard animal, Jumper (Berlin, 1996). In further analysis of Berlin's work, we were enlightened about how Atlantic Creoles appeared. Now, Atlantic Creoles are unique because it reveals the early processes by which race was constructed and reconstructed (Berlin, 1996). The product of Atlantic Creoles came about when Europeans meet Africans in the Americas; this is the first appearance of interracial relationships in the reading. An example of this is European

The Oxford English Dictionary has many different definitions for “Creole,” but the one that I found to relate the closest to Belinda was the following:

The article explains where the Haitian Creole language comes from and by which dialects was it inspired. When African slaves were imported on the island they had no effective method to communicate between them. People spoke different languages since the slaves were form different part of West Africa, and so they had to create their own system of communication. The article also gives the main languages that influence Haitian Creole and how it finally became a nationally recognized language, in