International Creole Day: In Louisiana, Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity • FRANCE 24
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- In the southern US state of #Louisiana, #Cajuns make up nearly 10% of the population. Although #Creole is spoken less with each passing generation, some are fighting to preserve the language and keep their #traditions alive. FRANCE 24's Fanny Allard, Kethevane Gorjestani report.
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im here watching this video because of Channing Tatum as Gambit in Deadpool 3 lmaoooo
Same here! 😂
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
You also have the Caribbean population that are creole too.
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.
This would also create more resources for the language, boosting learners and preventing its extinction.
The grandpa was really speaking créole the younger lad was basically speaking French with an accent
Yes, was thinking the same. I'm Irish but learnt Creole via marriage. Our kids are fluent too. @DNilo07
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.
I am from Surinam south america we speak also creole. And we still have the culture from africa and beliefs
So glad you commented. Believe it or not Southern Louisiana is considered by some to be the northern tip of the Caribbean due to the ever present influence of Haitian/Caribbean culture, language, architecture, religion, music, holidays, etc.
As I'm sure you know a great many of your ancestors from British Honduras (at the time) migrated to New Orleans and blended seamlessly into the culture of the city and contributed to it's richness. Nowhere else in North America do you have such a rich concentration of African & Caribbean culture as you have in NOLA. The place is pure magic. You must visit and immerse yourself in this ancestral hub.
You might find that the Gullah are more similar to your people.
@@MisyeDiVre gullah and my people speake the same language. Creole based on english. I understand everything
@@presterjohn1697
New Orleans had more people from Cuba and Martinique than Belize on an ancestral level but more recently Hondurans and Belizeans came in.
Blended seamlessly into the culture... yeah of the light skinned Belizeans hating the darker skin Black people of N.O.
Please keep the Creole and Cajun culture and language alive. Its all so beautiful
“I’m about to make a name for myself here my boy” - Gambit
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."
To get people to watch it Im guessing.
I assume because they assume Cajuns are the most visible creole majority in Louisiana.
Cajuns (Acadian Creoles) are a type of creole in Louisiana :)
@@IslenoGutierrez Cajun is not a type of creole. They are two different ethnicity
@@Cramsiwel11 Cajun is absolutely a type of Louisiana Creole. Cajuns are white Louisiana Creoles. There are other white Louisiana Creoles too such as French Creoles (whites of colonial French and Québécois descent), Spanish Creoles (whites of colonial Spanish descent, usually from ancestry from Andalusia Spain or Spain’s Canary Islands), German Creoles (whites of colonial German descent) and Cajuns used to be called Acadian Creoles before the invent and spread of the term Cajun. There are mixed race Creoles like Creoles of Color (people of mixed European and black African descent, some may have Amerindian admix) and black Creoles (blacks of colonial Louisiana African descent). But there is one thing I’d like to say about today’s Cajuns. Cajuns are not Acadians, but are a mix between Acadians and French Creoles (whites of French and Québécois descent). Some may have Spanish or German admix too. But anyway, there are Cajuns on historic account identifying as Creoles in both French and English, also Cajuns in the modern age identifying as Creoles. Cajuns are a type of white Louisiana Creole that descends from Acadians and French Creoles (whites of French and Québécois descent).
I LOVE Lousian Creole and Cajuns, such a unique culture!
Cajuns are creoles and many other races and ethnicities are creoles in Louisiana
@@IslenoGutierrez I agree. They're both latinos as well and should be called as such.
@@tmc1373 Yes of course. Our ancestors referred to themselves as Latins. I’m from the New Orleans area and I’m a white Louisiana Creole of colonial Louisiana ancestry from when Louisiana was a colony of France and Spain. Louisiana had French connections also to the French Caribbean and South America as well as French Canada and France and the Spanish connection to Spain and its Canary Islands as well as Spanish Caribbean nations and other parts of Latin America. We are absolutely Latins.
@@IslenoGutierrez The language is Latin as well so definitely Latino.
@@IslenoGutierrez We just need to get more exposure so others can understand its Latin identity.
Woah, I'm from Pont Breaux and speak Creole. My grandparent could not read English and barely understood. I need to join the podcast
Who do you speak with on a daily basis?
@@Jumbo37279 my pets, plants, and family. Oh and myself lol
@@iamkingsolomonI'm with you, how do I find this podcast
I lived in Louisiana 2 1/2yrs sadly I didn’t get to hear anybody speak this language it sounds amazing hearing it
I love my people ❤️. We are a special culture.
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.”
That's tragic. Ignore them.
@@oldtruthteller2512 🙏🙏
I have creole roots as well...unfortunately the language was not passed down, the food was however.
@@Mr.Universe True, the food is amazing.
@SunsignAquarius Omg that's so true. Never thought of it that way.
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.
I'm from southwest Louisiana near Lafayette hearing the old man brought a tear to my eye he reminds me of both my grandfather's both sets of my grandparents spoke creole but never taught it to my parents or me because it was thought of as been ignorant they were hit and punished in school for speaking it great video will be looking up the podcast
Im à Mauritian and 1 speak Mauritian creol I can understand them
See that's the beauty of it right there. The francophone diaspora is truly in sinc
Oui, mwasi mo moricien
@@kevinf6859 nou Mauricien nou partou
Bonjou mô padna mo çé Kréyol Lwizyann. Linmé pou Moris m’ole a vizit tô péyi!
Does anyone know where I can listen to Taalib’s podcast?
Have you found it? I can ask him the next time I speak to him if you still need it.
Rouganou
I swear, I have never seen anyone sing and play the violin except for myself before. That is lit😀
My great grandmother was Creole from Louisiana.. Snaer family
reminds me a lot of our culture here in quebec, we fight to conserve it
"You done broke my stuff" 😂 so Lafayette
It's actually very typical for many dialects of Southern American English too ❤.
Who’s here after Deadpool x Wolverine to know how Channing Tatum’ supposed to sound like ?
I'm creole and only kno a little about my culture
So that means you're Black American.
@@tmc1373 wrong
Does anyone know the name of the podcast? It's not mentioned in the video or in the description box.
Keep it going brother I will be praying for you.
Louisiana Creole is similar to Haitian Creole which also similar to French Antilles Creole.
It is not really the same as Haitian Creole but I understand
@@pandans Yes they are. There is much phonetical difference between them.
@@pandans Haitians can understand when you speak it. Just like Haitians can understand when Saint Lucia’s speak Creole.
Creole/Kriol exist in the Caribbean and Belize, Honduras
Deadpoole “GAMBIT” brought me here
I'm Canadian ( French is my second language ), just sounds like they speaking French with some Southern twang to it. lol
By the way, Louisiana is famous also for something else - alot of movies about blackmagic like voodoo etc seems to come from this location (houses built next to the river, slavery, ppl hang on trees) etc.
Bravo!
😂😂😂😂 that man talk soo funny
I couldn't understand what he was sayin
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!
In its original, historical sense, creole merely refers to someone born in the Americas whose ancestry is not 100% Indigenous. For example, someone whose parents immigrated to Louisiana in 1700 and was subsequently born there is creole. It has nothing to do with race, or at least it didn't until after the Civil War. Thank Jim Crow for that. Also, there are mixed race Cajuns.
Please, just stop. A distorted version of French and English. What the hell does that mean? S’il te plaît, va lire un livre avant faire des commentaires ignorants comme ça.
I’m from south Louisiana born and raised and let me tell you, Cajuns are a type of white Louisiana creole. Creole in Louisiana has historically been an identity that includes anyone that is born in Louisiana and into the local culture that has its roots in the French and Spanish colonial period. So this includes all the whites, all the blacks and all the mixed race people born in Louisiana into this culture and way of life. Cajun is a recent identity that was wholesale adopted by Acadian Creoles in the 1960’s and was cemented by the 1980’s. Before the 1960’s, Cajuns were called creoles just like other local Louisiana folks mainly in south Louisiana (this is where the colonial based culture exists mostly). And to be exact, Cajuns were called Acadian creoles. All creole groups had certain names identified by ancestry or race like French creoles (whites of French descent), Spanish creoles (whites of Spanish descent), German Creoles (whites of German descent), Acadian creoles (whites of Acadian descent), Creoles of Color (mixed race people of European and African descent), métis creoles (mixed race people of European and Amerindian descent) and Afro creoles (blacks of African descent). So Cajuns are a certain type of white Louisiana creole called Acadian creoles or simply just creoles like all other creoles. Cajun is a recent identity since the 1960’s.
@@philippehalbert4537 yes I agree with you. There is an ignorance going on in relation to who or what is creole and Cajun is tied to that. Cajuns are creoles just the same as other Louisiana creoles of whatever race or ancestry. What people don’t realize is that creole is not a race or ethnicity at all. It has nothing to do with race or ethnicity and has everything to do with being born in Louisiana and into the local culture that is rooted in the french and Spanish colonial periods. That’s all. So many people try to make it something else that it is not. Louisiana really needs some sort of formal cultural organization to sort all this mess out and create an official definition of Louisiana creole and those that are part of the creole population. And also to rebuild the creole identity across racial and ethnic lines because let’s face it, corruption of the creole identity since Jim Crow has severely damaged the identity and has seriously reduced its numbers of those that identity as creole.
@@IslenoGutierrez and btw man,what people try to call a Cajun accent is just a white creole accent. Any original Acadian accent they had disappeared within the first 100 years of them being here in favor of the already existing francophone accents. Also don’t even get me started on how a lot of supposed Cajuns are more of a different ethnicity at times than they are ethnic French in comparison to a French/Spanish creole like yourself and majority French people like my grandfather. Even the German creoles are more French than these people😂🤣
I'm from shreveport louisiana my heritage run thru St Mary Louisiana I'll pay for a tutor to Teach me and my family
They have classes!!
@@bigpynk Me too! What classes, please and thanks?😊
J’habite à Lac Charles. Un produit d’un programme d’Immersion francais, j’ai compris la plupart que ce monsiur dit ici.
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.
Acadians didn’t arrive until the time of Spanish rule in 1762. You’re missing a gap of time between when Acadians arrived and when they area was predominantly the formerly enslaved people, free POC, people from Quebec, and people directly from France. Acadians didn’t come until later the people that were there already spoke French the first Canadian people to arrive and settle were from Quebec in 1682 and then others came directly from France. French and Kréyòl Lwizyan were already spoken languages prior to the arrival of who we now call Cajuns.
@@saintseer9578 and today you have so many people claiming to be Cajuns that are not Acadians. I’d say the majority of the French creoles (whites of French descent) of the past claim to be Cajuns (Acadian Creoles) and now we’re left with a smaller French creole population that mainly exists in the New Orleans area and small pockets of northern Acadiana. And that’s not to mention all the people without French surnames today that claim to be Cajuns. It’s out of control.
In addition, we have First Nations tribes who’ve been speaking French since before the Acadians arrived in Louisiana, and yet, people claim the Houma, Chitimacha, and Attakapa tribes speak "Cajun French." lol Quoi?
@@Louisianish Yeah, there is that too with the Native American French that is based on the French language that was in Louisiana before the arrival of the Acadians. Another thing, I was speaking to owner of a “Cajun French video” where this old man was cooking and speaking Louisiana French and his surname was Rabalais and think his first name was Mr. Calvin and because I’m from south Louisiana and familiar with Louisiana history and which surnames are which, I commented that Rabalais is not a Acadian surname and that it has existed in Louisiana before the arrival of the Acadians, that the man and his family in the house were French Creoles instead of Cajuns (Acadian Creoles). The owner of the video replied back (I think it was his daughter that was in the video) and she agreed with me that yes, Rabalais is French Creole rather than Cajun and then she says to me, “and our other surname Mayeux is French Creole too” and I agreed that yes, Mayeux was French Creole and not Acadian. So I then asked her why do they identify as Cajun rather than French Creole… and she replied “out of convenience, it’s just easier to identify as Cajun”. When I heard that I was at a loss for words. There are actual people out there that intentionally claim other ethnicities even though they know they are not that ethnicity just out of “convenience”. I was blown away. I couldn’t believe it and apparently this is common among French Creoles in Acadiana. I believe that family was from northern Acadiana I think maybe St. Landry Parish or Evangeline maybe. Anyway, I was just at a loss for words.
@@Louisianish another thing, there are many people with Spanish, German, English, Irish and Italian surnames that identify as Cajuns, even if their other parent’s surname is not Acadian. It’s out of control. To me these kind of people are too mixed to identify as Acadians, because that’s basically what Cajun means…Acadian (from Louisiana).
gambit got me here
what’s the podcast
My ancestry
Creole≠Cajun
O have both creole and Haitian background but born in Illinois i understood nothing but 3 words lol
No way its Cedric Watson
He looks exactly like my great great grandfather who passed away
Como'seva?
Whoooamaboutomakenameformaself
Are cuzzins Trinidad love
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
My papa speak French yet we don't speak not one bit of it ☠️🤣🤭
It's not funny. Your family is dying. You need to learn from your pa
@@mausegetlit363 Do you speak Cajun French or Kouri-Vini?
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.
Didn’t you herd in the video creole is cultural term not ethnic
@@louyachty9037Culture and ethnicity are essentially one and the same.
Cajuns get ignored all the time
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You already know! Louisiana Creoles are basically Haitians
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@@FreedomBiafra No we are not. Stop trying to take credit for African American culture.
@@booneboone9705 it's not a american culture. I suggest you study more because there's a difference between creole and Louisiana Creole. They're not the same. A slight example, the Louisiana Creole language has it's roots in the Haitian kreyòl language. If you speak both languages, you'll know what I'm talking about.
@@FreedomBiafra Hey dumbazz I'm Creole. Our culture has nothing to do with Haitians, especially our language. We were already talking like that before you came here, also it's been proven that majority of people from Louisiana have no Haitian/Caribbean ancestors in their families. Now run along and quit trying to credit for someone else culture.
Whether you speak English, Creole or French they're all white man language.Not much difference in 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.
What you have written here is absolutely incorrect. Please look into the work of Carl Brasseaux and other noted historians and linguists of the region.
Lies and stop the kang stuff dude,I told you this under my CZcams video. Lmao,there were white people speaking French in Louisiana since the late 16 and early 1700s decades before a single cadien ever came here
@@t-dgonzalez2012 he’s a Haitian dude on some kang stuff,don’t waste your time bro
@@Dragoncam13 let it go dude. Learn history and study more. You're too white washed
Stop going around spreading misinfo about my people and culture. Be proud of being Haitian but not at the expense of cultural erasure.
Cajun creole sounds more like moors to me lol
Wtf is that ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 None of these people actually spoke creole. Apart from a few words here and there.
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.♥️🙏🏽
Come on and I'll show you around! #CreoleWorld
@@yobabydaddyismine ...♥️🙏🏽 Bless you. That's so sweet
@@neldithsajous442 don't forget to tell your haitian friends. Make Lousina creole strong.