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Posted on 1/19/20 at 3:39 pm to Tiger1242
I think I am, not sure though
Maybe you can help me since you know so much about it ?
Maybe you can help me since you know so much about it ?
Posted on 1/19/20 at 3:44 pm to Epic Cajun
Nope. Doesn’t work that way.
Are you arguing that you can somehow not know how to speak Cajun, but be a Cajun? Cajun isn’t a race, it’s a dialect. If that language dies, it’s over. It died in my family with my generation.
Are you arguing that you can somehow not know how to speak Cajun, but be a Cajun? Cajun isn’t a race, it’s a dialect. If that language dies, it’s over. It died in my family with my generation.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 3:47 pm to Tiger1242
Family has been in LA since the early 1700s. Does that make me cajun?
Posted on 1/19/20 at 3:48 pm to Tiger1242
My grandparents on my moms side couldn’t get any more coonass than what they were. One grew up in Church Point and the other one was from Kaplan. The ancestry test that I got done said i was 70+% White from some Nova Scotia/Frech roux joux Frère Jacques bullshite.
All I know is I do have the blood; but the culture started dying out with my mom, for they didn’t pass it on. Because my dad is from Mississippi and that side of the family is English (UK) and they didn’t care about roots and all that.
All I know is I do have the blood; but the culture started dying out with my mom, for they didn’t pass it on. Because my dad is from Mississippi and that side of the family is English (UK) and they didn’t care about roots and all that.
This post was edited on 1/19/20 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:05 pm to Gaston
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Cajun isn’t a race, it’s a dialect.
Wrong, Cajun French is a dialect. Cajun just means Acadian, as in ancestors from Acadia
I’m not sure what it not being a “race” has to do with anything, French, English, Spanish, etc... aren’t races either.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:08 pm to TheOcean
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Family has been in LA since the early 1700s. Does that make me cajun?
No, my dad’s side came over in the 1700’s, but came to America straight from France. There are many different peoples that were here at that time.
ETA: if a person has two parents who are mexican but they never learned Spanish, does that mean that person isn’t mexican?
This post was edited on 1/19/20 at 4:14 pm
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:17 pm to Epic Cajun
My mom’s side came from Acadiana, dad’s from the French speaking old Belgium. My last name is French. My folks spoke Cajun when they didn’t want us to know what they were saying. I didn’t grow up on a rice farm in south Louisiana, like both of my folks did, I never learned the language...and even if I did I it would take me years of living in that pocket of the world to consider myself Cajun.
I do drink a lot and I went to LSU for 8 years...so no matter how long I live over here in BSL I still feel like a Louisianan.
I do drink a lot and I went to LSU for 8 years...so no matter how long I live over here in BSL I still feel like a Louisianan.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:18 pm to Epic Cajun
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: if a person has two parents who are mexican but they never learned Spanish, does that mean that person isn’t mexican?
If they were raised in say California...yea they’re definitely not Mexican.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:23 pm to Gaston
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I didn’t grow up on a rice farm in south Louisiana, like both of my folks did
I did, also in Vermilion Parish like your folks
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I never learned the language
I didn’t either, my grandpa (who is a Landry) didn’t want his kids to learn it because they were punished for speaking it in school and treated like shite.
quote:IMO, Cajun French is just part of the larger culture of the Cajun people. But also IMO, you can be part Cajun without embracing that part of your ancestry. It’s just like being part English, German, Spanish, etc... but more pronounced in this area because there are so many people here with similar ancestry.
even if I did I it would take me years of living in that pocket of the world to consider myself Cajun.
I do drink a lot and I went to LSU for 8 years...so no matter how long I live over here in BSL I still feel like a Louisianan.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:24 pm to TheOcean
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Family has been in LA since the early 1700s. Does that make me cajun?
Cajuns didn’t arrive until the late 1700s, so if anything that makes you not Cajun.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:24 pm to Gaston
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If they were raised in say California...yea they’re definitely not Mexican.
Even if they still celebrate other parts of the mexican culture? Language isn’t everything, IMO, it’s just part of a culture.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:28 pm to Tiger1242
Cajun?
The OT is filled with the great grandchildren of Cherokee princesses.
The OT is filled with the great grandchildren of Cherokee princesses.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:31 pm to Pandy Fackler
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White trash by any other name is still white trash.
But CAJUN is FRENCH white trash, which means they don't even put up a fight. They just surrender.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:37 pm to Champagne
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But CAJUN is FRENCH white trash, which means they don't even put up a fight. They just surrender.
LMAO!!!! Absolutely! You nailed it baw, I think you should go test that theory immediately, I think it’s gonna work out real well for you, I really do.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:44 pm to Kadjin
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But CAJUN is FRENCH white trash, which means they don't even put up a fight. They just surrender.
LMAO!!!! Absolutely! You nailed it baw, I think you should go test that theory immediately, I think it’s gonna work out real well for you, I really do.
See what I mean. Blanc des ordures.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:45 pm to Tiger1242
Full blooded Cajun checking
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:53 pm to Rock the Casbah
She is a Olivier from outside Arnaudville going towards Pecaniere. She just made 92, grandpa was a Breaux from Church Point. Both could tell you stories of the teachers hitting there knuckles with switches or rules for talking in Cajun French growing up.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 4:54 pm to Gaston
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Nope. Doesn’t work that way.
Are you arguing that you can somehow not know how to speak Cajun, but be a Cajun? Cajun isn’t a race, it’s a dialect. If that language dies, it’s over. It died in my family with my generation.
What in the hell is this garbage? "Cajun" is more than being able to speak the language. It's a culture. The language can die and the culture still be alive, because language is not the only aspect of culture. There's very unique dances, music, food, and traditions that are all part of being cajun. The language may die, but whether one is a cajun or not does not ride on that one aspect of the culture.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:04 pm to Cowboyfan89
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There's very unique dances, music, food, and traditions that are all part of being cajun.
There are also "very unique dances, music, food and traditions" that are all part of being a Tennessee hillbilly too. Doesn't change the fact, that just like cajuns, they're frickin' white trash as well.
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