re: Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity.

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I remember my Cajun French teacher telling us how her visit to France was difficult because the French hear Cajun French and can barely understand you, and probably think you're an idiot (unless you explicitly tell them where you are from).

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That is much less true in the rural areas of France. My family is originally from Brittany and several of our family have made it back to the village where we came from, and they didn’t have trouble communicating.