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re: What % if people who claim to be “cajun” actually are?
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:07 pm to Pandy Fackler
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:07 pm to Pandy Fackler
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Blanc des ordures
not even close, you dolt...
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Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:07 pm to sleepytime
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I’ve got a cousin that is genetically about 1/8 Cajun, had almost no Cajun influence in her life, born and raised in MS and has lived in MO for at least 10 years. She post all kinds of stuff about her Cajun heritage on Facebook and i just shake my head.
I have a cousin on FB who is 1/4 Filipino. Big arse liberal, always posting shite about how white people are so stupid. Funniest part is that of my Filipino side of the family... he has the lightest skin of them all. Dude is weird. He has no contact with his sister or parents. Won't even let his parents see their 3 grandkids.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:11 pm to fallguy_1978
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My in laws in Alabama thought I'd have a Cajun accent the first time they met me.
That's the one that gets me. "But you don't have an accent".
Motherfricker, I don't have a pirogue or a wife named Clotile, either, but that doesn't change the fact of where my people came from!
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:19 pm to Pandy Fackler
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Pandy Fackler
How does it feel to be such a miserable person that this consumes you so much?
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:28 pm to pussywillows
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Blanc des ordures
? not even close, you dolt...
Well google says that means white garbage. I couldn't really find the word for "trash".
So take it up with the algorithms, coonass.
This post was edited on 1/19/20 at 5:28 pm
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:29 pm to Cowboyfan89
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Pandy Fackler
How does it feel to be such a miserable person that this consumes you so much?
Not bad at all.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:32 pm to Tiger1242
I have a good friend that has a French name but isn't cajun. His dad's family comes directly from France and his mom is English. He absolutely claims to be cajun.
Here's the rub though. He is born and raised here and cooks cajun food as good as anyone. He now lives in another state and represents us well. He may as well be a "real" cajun.
Here's the rub though. He is born and raised here and cooks cajun food as good as anyone. He now lives in another state and represents us well. He may as well be a "real" cajun.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 5:37 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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That's the one that gets me. "But you don't have an accent".
Motherfricker, I don't have a pirogue or a wife named Clotile, either, but that doesn't change the fact of where my people came from!
I thought it was funny. I grew up in Central. If anything I have a slight country twang. Much less than my wife and gump in laws though.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 6:01 pm to Pandy Fackler
Someone ban this fool.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 7:35 pm to Tiger1242
Cajun comes from a word that means “to live off the land”. I have 50% Cajun blood but don’t do anything Cajun. If someone else does all the culture and doesn’t have the last name, they’re still more Cajun than me.
/thread.
/thread.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 7:39 pm to Kadjin
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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.
Just joking.
I'm from La. I'm definitely either Cajun or French, probably both.
This post was edited on 1/19/20 at 7:39 pm
Posted on 1/19/20 at 8:00 pm to Champagne
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Just joking.
I'm from La. I'm definitely either Cajun or French, probably both.
Haha! Was wondering with your username, it’s all good, if that’s your last name I’d lean towards Cajun, they’re scattered all over south Louisiana, most of your straight from France people live in the upper portions of Acadiana, especially Avoyelles Parish
This post was edited on 1/19/20 at 8:02 pm
Posted on 1/19/20 at 8:17 pm to AtlantaLSUfan
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Cajun comes from a word that means “to live off the land”.
Where did you get this from? Genuinely curious, because I haven’t found that “Acadia” means that.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 9:18 pm to Tiger1242
Now my grandfather on my fathers side was raised in Leroy, LA near Maurice. He never learned to speak English and only spoke French. None of my four Aunts and six Uncles have the same spelling of their last name. The hospital in Abbeville tried their best to spell it similar on the birth certificates. No one knows what the correct spelling of my last name is. Somehow I am related to Thibodaux’s, Leblanc’s, Racca’s, Hebert’s, and Boudreaux’s.
I just do not think my dads side of the family is true cajuns. My great grandfather came off the boat from Nova Scotia somewhere around Donaldsonville.
I just do not think my dads side of the family is true cajuns. My great grandfather came off the boat from Nova Scotia somewhere around Donaldsonville.
This post was edited on 1/19/20 at 9:19 pm
Posted on 1/19/20 at 11:05 pm to Midtiger farm
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If they came when LA was just a colony that would be you Creole by the true definition of the word
They did not, in fact they were born after LA achieved state hood. Immigrated around 1840-ish from what I can tell. Great Grandfather x 3. He fought for the Confederacy and later became the Mayor of Marksville. So I've been told.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 11:15 pm to Epic Cajun
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Cajun comes from a word that means “to live off the land”.
Where did you get this from? Genuinely curious, because I haven’t found that “Acadia” means that.
Yea, Ive never heard that definition either. I've heard it means "land of plenty" though.
Posted on 1/19/20 at 11:40 pm to Tiger1242
Well, we still have theSpanish land grant and nobody says my name right, so....
Posted on 1/20/20 at 12:35 am to PowerTool
Family came from the rice fields of the Eunice/Mowata/Iota area so I would guess there’s some German mixed into my French/Spanish heritage. Funny but we were raised being told we were Cajuns and were deep into the French language thing. Not so sure about true Acadian blood and I am not going to spend hundreds of dollars to find out now.
Posted on 1/20/20 at 12:49 am to Tiger1242
Avoyelles Parish Cajun here..
Posted on 1/20/20 at 12:55 am to AtlantaLSUfan
When I traced our ancestors in Avoyelles Parish, I read one book that said "Cajuns" was how the Indians were pronouncing "Acadians". The language barrier was the issue and Acadian was being prounced by Indians as Cajun. Wish I couldn't remember the book.
This post was edited on 1/20/20 at 12:56 am
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