I still remember meeting people in the swamp that didn’t speak English, only slang French. Louisiana has to be one of the most interesting states I’ve ever visited. Huge plus that I absolutely love the food.
I stayed in Church point for a few months. I met several people that spoke only Cajun French. The best part of the whole experience was the food and the people. Everybody took care of each other.
My second cousin married a full blooded Cajun who had some Creole. On a visit to the 1984 Worlds Fair, they took me to me their extended family on the shores of Lake Verret. It was a wonderful experience. Great people.
I don't know what it is about Cajuns and Creoles (I grew up outside Chicago and I live in the Midwest) but I've visited Louisiana and the culture just feels like home. The people, the food, the music... Undeniably the best part of the US
Knowing the difference doesn't mean you need to be able to distinfuish them by sight. It means you know the history and nothing more. Thank you for sharing this information! I love it!!
Cajuns are often mixed with three tribes from Canada and the Houma of Louisiana. Creoles are most often Spanish/proper French/ black and native American. Some families mixed . They didn't just come here they were pushed out of France, burned out of Canada and wound up on lands that would not grow crops . The swamps
@@cuauhtemocthethird Whelp. At least you Publicly Admit who (and What) you are. I hope you just as proudly accept the inevitable Consequences of same.🕊️
@@joiisler8986 I'm from Mexico but people say I look like a East European Jew so I actually don't know who I'm supposed to hate but I'm with whoever is winning you know
I lived in Mandeville for a while, right on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, directly parallel to New Orleans. My home’s perimeter was a wall of bamboo. When we moved there and my daughter saw the bamboo, she was shocked, came running back up into the house (it sits on 9ft columns) “You didn’t tell me we moved out of America!!” 😂 It’s the most perfect city in the United States, as far as I’m concerned. Virtually no crime, no litter, everyone’s friendly. Summer night vibe is fireflies, twinkle lights, massive willow trees, the smell of magnolia & fresh lemonade, and the faint sound of live smooth jazz playing somewhere at the lakefront park..usually just a couple of teenagers with their instruments.. You’d swear it didn’t really exist in America if you’ve never been there. One of my closest friends is a 60 year old creole woman ..she taught me how to make all of these amazing meals. As a Long Islander far from home, i’d never even heard of mirliton before she showed me how to stuff one with shrimp lol. Louisiana has my whole heart.
@@runawayfaeIX my mother was diagnosed terminal and I sold everything to move in with her and take care of her til she passed. I lost her 6 months after I moved .. Edit: there was absolutely no way she was going to spend her last days on earth in a nursing home. I stayed here to take care of my elderly-disabled father until mom calls him. I’m tethered as a caretaker, but my children and I are giving my father the love and care, and pep in his step that he needs to have a more fulfilling life. I’ll find my way back to paradise, one day ..
Louisiana has one of the most interesting and unique cultures In North America based on what I've heard. It's the birthplace of Jazz too, as a jazz nerd I would love to visit one day.
"Cajun" is a distorsion of the French word "Acadien", the people who occupied Acadia, a part of New Bruswick (I'm not sure if they are from Nova Scotia). In French, "Acadien" us pronounced Ah-Cah-Dzee-Yien. The "Ah" sound was dropped. "Cah" morphed into a "Kay" sound while the "Dzee-Yien" evolved into "Jun". Some Cajuns actually returned to New Brunswick.
Acadiens settled in parts of what's now New Brunswick, Noa Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. 1755-1764 was Le Grand Dérangement. British forced our ancestors away form their land onto boats and forced to leave. Some went back to France then down to what's now Louisiana. Those are the Cajuns. Some of my ancestors and many others made their way to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Others went up the St. John River and settled in what's called the St. John Valley which includes part of northern Maine and western New Brunswick. I happened to be there in 2014 for the Congrès Mondial Acadien. There are more places that Acadiens moved to after the British forced our ancestors away, and some of us have traced our genealogy back to Le Grand Dérangement, but there's this problem where the British destroyed any records they could find and most of us can't trace back our ancestors beyond that point in time.
@chasm9557 That's interesting, especially when it's history that is not always included in a school board's curriculum. It is particularly disheartening to hear of records being destroyed for whatever reason, but worst of all, to cover up wrongdoings. I'm glad to have read your account, and I liked reading it, but I'm not going to press "like" because I don't like the injustice.
@@Polytrout If you're interested in learning more, there's plenty of information available between New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. I've also heard good things about the Acadian Archives in Fort Kent Maine, but haven't had a chance to visit myself. There are also plenty of Acadian historical sites, and those I've been to have all been worth the trip in my opinion. I would recommend if you don't speak French that you be more careful when selecting a destination since some places in the maritime provinces are purely French speaking and not bilingual.
@chasm9557 I'm due for a trip to the Maritimes. I will indeed make it a point to check out some sites. Since one of the provinces I'm aiming for is New Brunswick I reckon many of the places could be French only. I lived 7 years in Quebec City and 8 years, though in Ontario, with my Québécoise wife (I may not necessarily understand the local Acadien slang, (they all speak a more standard French when dealing with outsiders) the displays would use a formal, literary French; as you probably know, these Acadiens aren't really uneducated and illiterate - that's just a Toronto impression/stereotype (prejudice?). Anyway, thanks for the heads up.
As a Nova Scotian it always amazes me that nobody was taught that elsewhere. Acadians and cajuns? Y'all got the short end for daring to believe the natives were people too even having kids with em. The expulsion is barely taught about these days and it's depressing that public school seems to be a government decided curriculum that neglects to ever teach the governments past failings, almost suspicious, innit?
I lived in golden meadow Louisiana for 3 years work related. It was the best time of my life. The people all over Louisiana were great. I was young then and got to experience a lot
On a trip to LA in 1976 we stopped for lunch at a cafe in Golden Meadow. We were surprised to find that everyone in the cafe was speaking CajunFrench. The waitress was kind enough to deal with us in English.
But he got it wrong they weren't exiled for refuses to bow to a different monarch but exiled to make way for English speaking settlers. This is highlighted by that fact that Quebec in addition to its Quebecqui population also features a small Acadian population made up of exiles
Creole is actually a specific,fully melinated human tribe.They are not the products of forced miscigenation.Now the term is usurped to mean 'light skin good hair' but ethnic Creole are not descendants of euros or spaniards.Cajuns are not 'closely related' to Creole in any way except the parts of the southern Slave culture they imitated.Most importantly,not all fully melinated people originate from Slaves or in Africa which is a modern continent.Before you attempt to 'educate',make sure you aren't spreading whitewashed info put out by colonziers❤
As a Nola (creole) I can proudly say you did Louisiana justice with this one sir. Thank you, I definitely just learned something I never knew myself even being native.
He’s leaving out the most important fact that they were forcefully moved down there in what was called “The Great Expulsion” because there was already a French presence in Louisiana, they were sent down there forcefully, they didn’t just happen to end up there … the Acadians came from Maine as well and many of them mixed with Natives. This was good but bruh left out key parts that people should know.
People should know they were forcefully moved in the Great Expulsion. Also Acadia national park is in Maine. Acadia is of course where the word “Cajun” comes from.
@@kaisha915 I know but he said “some ended up in Louisiana” as if they were butterflies in the wind who happened to end up in Louisiana as a result of random fate or whatever, haha. When the truth is they were sent directly down there by the British.
I'm French and grew up in the Western part of France! Part of my ancestors are from there. I have a lot of very distant cousins in Quebec, and the amazing Louisiana culture means a lot to me. Excellent short video! Merci beaucoup!😅
Thank you for using the cover of the book “they say the wind is red” when you mentioned indigenous peoples as creole. That book is about my mothers’ father’s tribe the MOWA and our fight for acknowledgment as a distinct tribe and not a part of the larger Choctaw nation culturally.
My dad has this book in his giant collection of historic and cultural media, I remember the cover but I never actually got to read it myself. Thank you for commenting about it, that’s amazing! Can’t wait to find and read it now
@@LivingDeadBabyDoll please do. This book has been around since the 90s and unfortunately never had the impact our tribe wanted, the MOWA are still considered a band of Choctaw. Hopefully if enough people learn about us, we can try again with more success.
@@SoulsInsanitythanks for mentioning this, I didn't know but I'll definitely check it out. Sending you much love from the Eastern door. #NYMohawk #BearClan #Taino
I was born in the early ‘90s and started reading & collecting comics in kindergarten. For the longest time, Gambit was the only frame of reference I had for Cajun people.
There are still white creoles alive today, but nowadays they call themselves Cajun (even though none of their ancestors were Acadian), because as you said it, most people just separate it down the racial line.
This the first correct definition of the difference between a Cajun and a Louisiana Creole I have seen on UA-cam! Great Job!! Take it from a New Orleans born, Louisiana raised half Cajun, half Creole, 100% Coonass historian, this the correct definition!!
i’m from Creole, Louisiana my grandfather was French and my grandmother is Mexican, absolutely love the culture my coonass moved to Cecilia now i’m a Cajan
@bossfan49 , I thought I'd die without knowing the difference, but phew! Thank God for this man explaining it to us!... One thing is not like the other, but they are the same, and you can't tell the difference... that explains it all! 😂😅😅😅
Cajuns are more widely know than Creoles in everywhere BUT New Orleans apparently, because we have Cajun restaurants all the way up here at the Canuck border, but I didn't know what "Creole" meant until a couple years back.
Literally noone in any state I've ever been had forgotten about either. They may mix up associated contributions, and it's terribly difficult most times to tell one from the other vs everyone else who is not Creole or Cajun, but literally everyone knows that both distinctions exist.
This is important for foods because you need to know if it's going to be cajun or creole style. For example, greole gumbo (a popular soup down here) is known for having duck, onions, or tomatoes. A traditional cajun style will have chicken and sausage. And keep in mind that some people over here will go bonkers of you get it wrong.
It gets nuts. Most of the time, it’s a mix. You get étouffée, gumbo, blue crab, frog legs, fried pickles and a side of lagniappe and a kiss from your momma! C'est Si Bon
I’m Cajun and this was new info to me. My grandpa always just simplified it by saying “They’re almost the same but Cajuns are more French and Creoles are more Spanish
The term creole was originally used by “black” people to differentiate themselves from Africans who recently arrived as slaves. It says it on the French creole website.
Actually, the word as it originated in colonial Mexico was "criolla" and it specified Spaniards born and raised in the New World. The word came to Louisiana during the time Louisiana was Spanish. New Orleans mulattos call themselves "Creoles" erroneously. Creoles were Spanish colonials.
Yt people steal everything. I bet most yt people don't even know why the French sold them Louisiana for cheap. They were afraid the new freed Haitians would come across the waters and incite the black folks n America to revolt. And they come in these comments trying to Gaslight people like history don't exist. Creol don't belong to yall but yall still took it, just like how humans beings didn't belong to yall but you guys still had owned them.
I was born and raised in rural Nova Scotia. I met some people from Lafayette. I was shocked by their accent. They sounded like they were from where I was raised in Nova Scotia. My ancestors are from UK and Germany. Amazing after so much time has past that we still have much in common. Acadian's influenced Nova Scotia culture and can still be felt today.
Well in MN we have a lot of people who came from Sweden and still make up part of our culture. Basically the USA is a huge melting pot of the world which make one of the most unique countries in the world and one of the greatest. It also cause us to have a problem with racism. Other other coutries do not have the racism like we do mainly because they have mostly one culture and one group who make a huge majority of the people. In almost every country in the world the minority population tends to be looked down on. But I though it was so funny Europe calling out our racism for decades and then they started to get all the Syrians refugees and they are having the same problem we with excepting strangers who have a total different belief system then the majority.
@@JAM661 Canada is about as multicultural as it gets. The city of Toronto is most notable. Not every culture is a good fit for immigration. The immigration policies failed to discriminate when it was necessary for unity and state security. There are many examples. Multiculturalism has always led to conflict over different values and competition for resources going back to antiquity. My guess is that the Swedish immigrants have fit in nicely in Minnesota. Much like Dutch farmers have settled well where I was raised. Even though there was jealousy because the Canadian government granted the Duth farmers land rights over the original Canadian families. The culture is compatible with North America
Thanks for sharing. Ive moved to Louisiana and was a bit fascinsted by the distinct culture. Lafayette accent has a bit of a different sounding accent as compared to other parts of southern louisiana. New orleans has maybe 5 different accents, one around metarie and kenner some other and most famously distinctive is chalmette a suburb to the east side. Really distinctive crazy sounding accent (no offense). Every time i hear someone i ask them their home town. I would say there are maybe 20 different sounding accents in southern louisiana. Vachery has a distinctive accent as does Gramercy. Its all very interesting to me. Its going to dissapear now with how things are changing society and economy and travel and internet entertainment influence. The sad thing is the french language dissapearing.
As you travel across the United States, you discover that there are almost as many cultures as there are counties! In my travels, I found the U.S.A. to be so incredibly diverse and interesting... and loved the regional foods with few exceptions. Before traveling internationally, Americans should take advantage of the cultures right here, at home, first! You won't be disappointed!
It's a lot easier to experience more while traveling internationally though 😂 I went to Europe for the first time this summer and got to see three different countries while driving the same distance that would be exactly the same here in the US.
@@CreativeC13 you should learn more of your local history 😊 it's only in the last generation or two that states became so blended and meaningless, truly fascinating if you look down and recognize how unique each states history is and their people ❤ I love to travel, but it makes me love my home all the more
Counties are small geographic areas. There are over 3,000 counties in the U.S., though in the southern U.S., a county is called a "parrish," and NYCity has "boroughs," one of which is Manhattan.
Canadian from down east here; I’m a Cajun (Acadian) from the group of leftovers that didn’t go to the meeting with the English but hid in the forest. I love how our traditions are still surviving in Louisiana!!! I hear our French names on tv shows and the French slang that we still use. ❤
I grew up 2 hours from the Texas-Louisiana state line and let me tell you, it’s like a whole nother world there. Plenty of people speak languages I’ve never heard of, eat foods that I’ve never seen before, and play music you can’t find anywhere else.
Back in the 90s when AOL was still a major part of getting people online, I used to participate in a message board about the south. One of the recurring themes was the debate over whether we in Texas and those in Florida counted as the south. I told them at minimum, *_East_* Texas did, because if I were to drop you off in the middle of nowhere along the Texas -Louisiana border and you didn't have a map or a guide, I would defy you to tell me which one you were in based on either the accents or the flora and fauna.
Idk, I live in northern Louisiana (born and raised in Arkansas) and I have yet to encounter any Cajun culture. All there is up here is Popeye's, the occasional crawfish boil, and fleur des lis decorations. Kinda just feels like someone sprinkled a little Tony's on generic southern rural culture. I would like to visit New Orleans sometime to see what it's really like - I haven't been there since I was too young to remember.
@@cailin5301Hi. Yes, North Louisiana is pretty much the same as East Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A border running thru Alexandria would make sense lol. Good people and fascinating history on both sides!
I really like this this gave me a quick fun non offensive history lesson while making me wanna learn more if i ever had to opportunity to visit that state. Thank you i really like shorts like this.
You realize history is supposed to offend you right? "Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it." If you don't see the evils of the past, if you don't see the things that make you "Uncomfortable", how will we learn to rise above those evils. It falls on deaf ears because now there are people who are trying to exterminate the Jews for the upteenth time in history. "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who learn are doomed to watch others repeat it."
@@M50A1 Nah you're right, but having a Master's Degree on the subject kinda does though. I'm working on becoming a history professor. Specifically Ancient Cultures. See you don't have to have a degree though. Any idiot can look back in history and see the patterns. It's just too bad people are too stupid to do so.
I was at my friends the other night and we were talking about our Acadian ancestry here in Canada. He mentioned one of his ancestors being exiled twice. He was sent down to the states, walking all the way back up to marry have children and only to be exiled again. We both descend from the women sent over in the 1600s known as the Fille du Roi.
Cajun here! My Dad was born in Kaplan Louisiana in 1919. Our family name is Suire. We were one of the first Exiled families in France One Grandparent is descended directly from France to Louisiana, they were actually deported having broken a law and deported to Louisiana when it was still part of France then one came to Louisiana by way of Nova Scotia. My Dad was the swampiest swamp Cajun you'd ever want to meet 💖
Almost everyone descended from "French Canadian" is the descendant of a Fille du Roi, which is crazy to think of, when you consider there were less than 1000 of them!
@@TheHaywire924 It's more like "daughters of the king", since these were mostly orphans who depended on the state for survival. The same way we sometimes say that foster kids are under "the care of the state."
Thank you! I’m a Canadian of Loyalist descent whose ancestors fought FOR the King at the time of the American Revolution and were exiled in 1784 to Upper Canada now Ontario. Your explanation was clear and elucidating. Merci. !!
The painting of the native lady looking over her shoulder is one of my husband's ancestors. She and her husband had a part in our nation's founding. They were very good spies against the crown.
I'm English and my dad is Australian. My whole life ( I'm 53) my dad has played cajun and creole music as he loves the music so much. I love it too as it's a childhood memory as well as a current experience. It's incredible. Thank you
A man who's educated and educating the people about his own people. Very cool to see someone truly understand the area they're from and why things are the way they are.
@@blacksnapper7684 ok, where people come from for one, creole is what the Spanish called all children born in their colonies and the French and Cajun in Louisiana are different French settlers . If he can't see the difference between creole and Cajuns physically is puzzling seeing how creole have African and Caucasian features while Cajuns don't and although they both speak French in Louisiana in the Caribbean the creole language, a mainly Spanish and African mix, is more dominant.
Thanks for this very concise explanation. I was born in Lafayette, Louisiana but now live in North Carolina. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain this to people in North Carolina. Now I'm just going to send them your video
We have the best culture. My mom is from Manchac, La and my dad from Tornado, WV where they have lived for the past 25 years. It’s so funny. She has these 5 ft tall alligators pulling a sleigh that she puts out at Christmas. I ship her fresh crawfish in May and King Cake in Feb.
Loved the video. People always wonder why Cajun and Creole get along so good with each other. Well, it’s because we share so many traditions, It’s almost like we’re family to each other. Laissez les bons temps rouler Louisiana!
Thank you for the video. I am Creole. My mother still speaks Creole French. People do get offended when they get labeled the wrong culture. Both have the best food in the world. My sister made a gumbo last week. Choooooo
@@majorlazor5058this is the deep south USA we're talking about and these cultures were developing alongside chattel slavery of black people and racial segregation so there being a divergence along racial lines isn't very surprising to me
Worked with both on a work crew one winter some 35 years ago. They both taught me to snort a pinch of cayenne pepper when you get a head cold (and it worked)
I’m a Creole here. I noticed most people use the two interchangeably and they don’t really know that there’s a difference. The foods have blended so much that’s probably why I’d imagine. It’s the food most people think of when they hear Creole and Cajun unless they from Louisiana, and they actually know what it is.
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This is the way all over the damn planet. And it's always bthis way. way.
Creole really only gets mentioned in a few movies and the biggest was probably Interview with the Vampire and he didn't explain what it meant Everything exported says Cajun, on it and they aren't going to research the difference
My dad grew up in lousiana. If your crawfish boil wedding reception is in the holler with all 127 cousins its a cajun wedding. We had to drive through a cow pasture to get there. I grew up in backwoods illinois and missouri and I felt like the city boy at that wedding.
There isn't much of a difference in SW Louisiana. My family there (and many of the neighboring families) who call themselves Creoles are mixed with French, Native, African, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and even Jewish, but they're all direct descendants of the French Acadian exiles who settled there, so they're literally Cajuns too.
I was born in Cape Verde ( a small country in Africa colonized by Portugal) we call ourselves “Crioulo”, and we speak Cape Verdean Creole, we speak Portuguese also. I didn’t know about the others “Creole” before coming to America. 😊
@@LanceDa510 I never said there was only one creole. I said when I was there I didn’t know about the other ones, because internet wasn’t the same that it is today. I know the definition of creole thank you
I used to think that creole itself was a specific language spoken the same way by every group that spoke creole. It helps now that people are more specific when they say it, like Haitian creole.
Exactly, well said. My mother was born in New Iberia and raised in New Orleans. Her six children were born in California where she moved after WWII. Everything you say is correct.
I'm a light skin black girl from Mississippi but when I moved to Georgia people constantly ask me if I was Cajun or Creole. I never could understand why people didn't know the difference. My sister and I were in the park one day when this white guy asked us where we some of them Cajuns from New Orleans. My sister looked at him and said "Naw, We some of them black folks from Mississippi." 😂
You got someone recent in your family tree multi generational mixed 60/40 75/25, or a one drop rule because you very yella 😂. I’m not being rude btw, America don’t have middle ground boxes and we all just blk, so ppl may be surprised how mixed they are after slavery times
@@DoubleBeezy you'll be surprised how many people mixed after slavery times. You have to remember in Mississippi a lot of people worked as maids. So these women were taking advantage of easily. It was a lot of hypocrisy going on. It was all about power. Just because someone believed in segregation didn't mean it didn't apply to them. If you know what I mean. You can't date my daughter but that doesn't mean I can't take your daughter. Storm Thurmond is a perfect example of this. This man was a segregationist who did not want blacks and whites together. However it was revealed that he had a biracial daughter that he took care of. I believe her name was Essie Mae Washington-Williams. Growing up I knew several older black women who are the offspring of white men and black women. It was a open secret. I knew two kids in my class who were first cousins. One was black and one was white. They both share the same grandfather. The only thing that was different was the black boy knew and I assume the white boy didn't. If he did, he had never acknowledged him. I knew because my mother told me. The funny thing is both of them had the same facial features. This is so well known in Mississippi. I'm laughing about it. Look, just because somebody wears a white sheet at night, doesn't mean that he won't get in between the sheets with somebody black. I can tell you so many stories. It's almost like a right of passage to have a white wife and a black mistress. I could tell you some stories that could ruin careers and families. SMH
You can't be cajun. Cajun is Caucasian. Creole, is mixed. That's who we call creole. The creole were made to distinguish the African population in louisiana. He made thus video. I was born and raised in Louisiana. I know the history that was taught, but I don't believe it's absolutely true. I'm from the southern part of Louisiana. None of my family considered themselves such. My pawpaw side of the family owned land. Where do you think the voodoo comes from? They are erasing an entire population of people influenced or downplay it. Yall, sitting here saying crazy stuff like is a compliment. Mississippi is another part of Louisiana, but without the Caucasian. We can not erase our African ancestors. Louisiana culture is not just in louisiana, it also in south Carolina and Southern GA. They not creole neither cajun. They are native and African.
@@TheOnlyLadyBella we are all mixed with involuntary, voluntary ppl and u have ppl like I explained constantly mixing, so that’s y I never understood how to guess which percentage is automatically bad. I totally understand what u saying though. My great great parent was white and my mom dad also had a white grandparent but somehow they still both half white on dna test and (my grandma had the constant mix also from creole background) my test came out 71% African 28% European 1% indigenous. I personally only see race as a social construct and noticing how it’s no logic to the man made thing (yes I’m a blk man 😂) . I mean if it was at least some logic based on percentages, maybe we could all better understand it’s just a social construct. Btw my dad side was 88%+ African, so I expected my result range
@theonlyladybella44480 I don't get you people. It's not a flex. Many women did it for survival. How can a group of terrorists love a group of people they enslaved? Those slave suffered from Stockholm syndrome. Coloristism still exists amongst black especially in the south. I'm from Louisiana, I know it exists. Brainwashed slave mixing with the slave terrorists....smh...it's nothing to be proud about. I see if slavery never existed. All these people love on their own admission, that wasn't the class. They were mentally beaten down and worship the lesser race themselves.
😮I lived in Louisiana for 4 years in Cajun land. Close to the Texan border. . I find the people very welcoming, much more than in the Eastern cities. They also enjoy life. They have Fait dodo parties every Friday where they dance and enjoy Cajun food. There is much to say about Cajuns besides their excellent , traditional food.
As a born and raised creole women from southwest Louisiana, this was done so respectfully. I do want to add that when thinking in terms of food just know most is creole as gumbo is obviously a black ( native, African) word and a lot of the rich sauce type foods are considered creole and not Cajun. However, like the host in video pointed out, we are so intertwined that it is hard to distinguish!
@@chrisbro1849 You can’t really identify as those things, you either are or you aren’t. He looks white in the video but that doesn’t mean he isn’t creole as creole also encompasses people of European ancestry. I don’t know how much you know about Spain and Portugal but a lot of them have white skin as well, always have.
Creol in Portuguese means born on the continent. In colonial Spanish America, Criollos, which sounds similar to Creol, meant unmixed spaniards as opposed to spaniards mixed with Native Americans or mixed with Africans.
Creolo in portugues means to breed. It was originally used to describe my people. cape Verdians” The original Criolos”. It’s just a mix of multiple language and culture. Usually European, African, etc..
Actually Criollo mean " Spanish Person not born in Spain or born off spain" Basically you are a non Peninsular spaniard. It was a social/caste system. My guess is these terms were used because they didnt trust their nationality (xenophobic) so therefore were considered "second class citizens" basically not TRUE Spaniard citizens just subjects. SMH.
As a Cajun who just visited your country last December, my wife and I love your country. We even named our first born son Zealand. We hope to move there one day
As a Cajun when i moved away to FL and went to a restaurant that miss spelled it when naming a dish on their menu. I asked, "what yall doing to make it Cajun? Because i want to know because I am a Cajun." That girl looked at me and said, "oh you are named after a seasoning?" Nearly broke my soul.
Has not been a time in traveling this country that I have not come across some "Cajun" restaurant. We used to stop in just to see. We don't even waste our time now, its NEVER actually good Had an uncle move to Cali. Told us some local place had a chef from "back home" that "flew in" ingredients Told him "ive heard this all before and its always BS" He kept talking about how good it was and this dish Redbeans Ahnjoulay Had me meet the chef and everything when we ordered Opened up the beans and there were carrots in it -_-, but thats not where this falls apart I take the menu because I want to know how much hes jacking these people out there on this "authentic" food Thats when I saw it.... when I stopped laughing I asked him what it was called again "Ahnjoulay" he says I said "You mean Andouille"? (ahn-dew-we for you uninitiated who may read this) and told him he's been gone to long and should be ashamed of himself His wife laughed, he didn't.... 🤣
😮Cajuns didn't "make their way" to Louisiana. The British put them in boats, They expelled them, separating families who couldn't reunite later. There is a beautiful poem called Evangeline written by a lover wouldn't find her love. There is ,in St Martinville, in Louisiana, , a statue of Evangeline in memory of those two lovers. A painful story. One of many.
Actually, your language is Kreyòl not Kréyòl or Creole. Contrary to popular opinion, those three words have different contextual values as they are of the result of three different languages.
Nah your ancestors murdered all the men, women, old people and children that were anything “other” than African. You are not Creole….as those are a mix of people. Some of us haven’t forgotten the genocide Haitians committed.
I grew up 45 miles across the line in Texas from Louisiana, I love my Creole and Cajun neighbors; God blessed them with good food, beautiful women and a proud sense of character. Going home for Christmas, I’m getting me some boudin and mudbugs while there.
Orange County Texas here! I travel for work and “goin’ home” is such a reward for me. I love my lil piece of swamp on the TXLA line. Boudin, BUGS, gumbo, jambalaya and pistolettes at home are unbeatable. We know how to eat.
I am from New Orleans and I have been to 13 countries and 39 states. We absolutely have the best food. I won a trip to the Marlboro ranch in Montana and they ran a close second.
As a generational descendant of French settlers my ancestors had broken from the mainland of Nova Scotia and were peacefully living in Cape Breton. I hail from a mixture of French and Aboriginal Mi'kmaq peoples on the east coast of Canada. It's nice to see the message.
I live in Texas near the Louisiana border. My father is Cajun and I am proud to be half Cajun. Many of my cousins live in Southwest Louisiana. Abbeville to be exact. A beautiful little town south of Lafayette. Nice to hear a correct explanation of our culture. 👍🏻🧓🏻🇺🇸Texas
Well said man. My ancestors were immigrants from France to New Orleans. When I tell people I’m Creole, far too many of them look at me and say “HuR dUr YoU dOnT lOoK bLaCk”
Cajuns are generally white descendants from France while the Creoles are others. Usually when white people “settle/colonize” a place they separate themselves immediately from the other demographics of people. Don’t get mad at the others to not want to include you in something your ancestors created for them
Creoles of Color were the largest and most recent group to make any distinctions or export any of that culture specifically Black movies mention it in connections to Voodoo and New Orleans specifically and so a lot of people and almost all blacks outside of Louisiana think that creole means light skinned blacks from the New Orleans area not understanding it means any of us who had family in the colony
I’m from the gulf coast, Mobile Alabama, which was the capital of French Louisiana before the Louisiana purchase and about 100 miles from New Orleans, got plenty family in New Orleans as well. Cajuns were basically French white/Native American blend… and Creole’s were African, Portuguese and/or French heritage.. The word basically translates to “Native or Local” So a creole could be of mixed lineage or not but from that particular community or colony.
@myke6135 - "Don't get mad" that people are being racist and denying him his ethnicity because his skin colour doesn't match? All cause some isolated white people from way back who are dead now did some stuff? Stuff that black and brown people all across the world still enforce within their societies (slavery)? So... just accept modern racism cause people with a certain skin colour deserve it by proxy of ancient dead white skinned people?
I have a teacher from Louisiana who is creole and whenever I confuse him for Cajun he's like "we're basically the same it just depends on when you where exiled from Canada"
Also a large number of Haitians migrated there as well especially after the revolution, anybody who either was seen as to French friendly or had other issues on the island tended to make that trek and some were brought over during the slave trade. It's why Haitian vodou it's very prominent especially in places like New Orleans.
The food is banging. I’m in SE TX and the food from both Cajun and Creole culture are staples. My family had gumbo for Christmas and Thanksgiving. It’s never too hot to eat it. 👏🏾
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“You need to know the difference.”
‘It’s kind of impossible to distinguish the two.’
Basically: white = cajun
Black = Creole
You won't offend anyone that way
There is a historic difference, not so much a modern one.
Not impossible to distinguish the two, impossible to separate the two. They inform each other culturally but are still their own distinct groups
Understanding that these things can both be true true is important
Said the same thing lol
Bro, just gave us a history lesson but told us it doesn’t matter anyway😂
Lmao
Lmao 😂
As one should 😂
Revisionist history, incomplete, inaccurate.
It’s like Irish vs Scottish very similar with a lot of overlapping but also different
I still remember meeting people in the swamp that didn’t speak English, only slang French. Louisiana has to be one of the most interesting states I’ve ever visited. Huge plus that I absolutely love the food.
Drive across the Atchafalaya Bridge. Absolutely beautiful.
Like a painting.
Love the food, zydeco, hurricane protocol: huddle n get drunk
What year?
I stayed in Church point for a few months. I met several people that spoke only Cajun French. The best part of the whole experience was the food and the people. Everybody took care of each other.
@bigmiked7900
When did this happen, though? You're saying there are people in 2020s in Southern US who Can't speak English?!
My second cousin married a full blooded Cajun who had some Creole. On a visit to the 1984 Worlds Fair, they took me to me their extended family on the shores of Lake Verret. It was a wonderful experience. Great people.
Lake Verret! I am a lady of lake Verret! I might know your people!
I don't know what it is about Cajuns and Creoles (I grew up outside Chicago and I live in the Midwest) but I've visited Louisiana and the culture just feels like home. The people, the food, the music... Undeniably the best part of the US
"Can i just get my food?" 😂😂😂
Delicious food.
😂
Thank you.LMAO… I just shouted lol….. @2:30AM EST …… alone …. In my dark ass(dimly lit lol)house lolol
Well... you know how we came about this recipe. See we SmoKe it for bout 5 ours.....
I'm creole and I approve this message 😅.
Knowing the difference doesn't mean you need to be able to distinfuish them by sight.
It means you know the history and nothing more. Thank you for sharing this information! I love it!!
Cajuns are often mixed with three tribes from Canada and the Houma of Louisiana.
Creoles are most often Spanish/proper French/ black and native American.
Some families mixed .
They didn't just come here they were pushed out of France, burned out of Canada and wound up on lands that would not grow crops . The swamps
Is distinfuish a cajun or creole word?
I like being able to distinguish by sight, allows me to be racist easier
@@cuauhtemocthethird
Whelp. At least you Publicly Admit who (and What) you are.
I hope you just as proudly accept the inevitable Consequences of same.🕊️
@@joiisler8986 I'm from Mexico but people say I look like a East European Jew so I actually don't know who I'm supposed to hate but I'm with whoever is winning you know
I lived in Mandeville for a while, right on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, directly parallel to New Orleans. My home’s perimeter was a wall of bamboo. When we moved there and my daughter saw the bamboo, she was shocked, came running back up into the house (it sits on 9ft columns) “You didn’t tell me we moved out of America!!” 😂
It’s the most perfect city in the United States, as far as I’m concerned. Virtually no crime, no litter, everyone’s friendly. Summer night vibe is fireflies, twinkle lights, massive willow trees, the smell of magnolia & fresh lemonade, and the faint sound of live smooth jazz playing somewhere at the lakefront park..usually just a couple of teenagers with their instruments..
You’d swear it didn’t really exist in America if you’ve never been there. One of my closest friends is a 60 year old creole woman ..she taught me how to make all of these amazing meals. As a Long Islander far from home, i’d never even heard of mirliton before she showed me how to stuff one with shrimp lol.
Louisiana has my whole heart.
But why did you move away from paradise? 🥺
@@runawayfaeIX my mother was diagnosed terminal and I sold everything to move in with her and take care of her til she passed. I lost her 6 months after I moved ..
Edit: there was absolutely no way she was going to spend her last days on earth in a nursing home. I stayed here to take care of my elderly-disabled father until mom calls him. I’m tethered as a caretaker, but my children and I are giving my father the love and care, and pep in his step that he needs to have a more fulfilling life. I’ll find my way back to paradise, one day ..
The way that description read you should be writing novels 😂 Seriously though, you should be writing novels 👍🏼🤓
@@Stardust414 I do write books lol. That’s too funny.
Louisiana has one of the most interesting and unique cultures In North America based on what I've heard. It's the birthplace of Jazz too, as a jazz nerd I would love to visit one day.
"Cajun" is a distorsion of the French word "Acadien", the people who occupied Acadia, a part of New Bruswick (I'm not sure if they are from Nova Scotia).
In French, "Acadien" us pronounced
Ah-Cah-Dzee-Yien. The "Ah" sound was dropped. "Cah" morphed into a "Kay" sound while the "Dzee-Yien" evolved into "Jun". Some Cajuns actually returned to New Brunswick.
Yes, they are from Nova Scotia. There are still Acadians here. Acadia University in Wolfville, NS is named after them.
Acadiens settled in parts of what's now New Brunswick, Noa Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. 1755-1764 was Le Grand Dérangement. British forced our ancestors away form their land onto boats and forced to leave. Some went back to France then down to what's now Louisiana. Those are the Cajuns. Some of my ancestors and many others made their way to Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Others went up the St. John River and settled in what's called the St. John Valley which includes part of northern Maine and western New Brunswick. I happened to be there in 2014 for the Congrès Mondial Acadien. There are more places that Acadiens moved to after the British forced our ancestors away, and some of us have traced our genealogy back to Le Grand Dérangement, but there's this problem where the British destroyed any records they could find and most of us can't trace back our ancestors beyond that point in time.
@chasm9557 That's interesting, especially when it's history that is not always included in a school board's curriculum. It is particularly disheartening to hear of records being destroyed for whatever reason, but worst of all, to cover up wrongdoings.
I'm glad to have read your account, and I liked reading it, but I'm not going to press "like" because I don't like the injustice.
@@Polytrout If you're interested in learning more, there's plenty of information available between New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. I've also heard good things about the Acadian Archives in Fort Kent Maine, but haven't had a chance to visit myself. There are also plenty of Acadian historical sites, and those I've been to have all been worth the trip in my opinion. I would recommend if you don't speak French that you be more careful when selecting a destination since some places in the maritime provinces are purely French speaking and not bilingual.
@chasm9557 I'm due for a trip to the Maritimes. I will indeed make it a point to check out some sites. Since one of the provinces I'm aiming for is New Brunswick I reckon many of the places could be French only. I lived 7 years in Quebec City and 8 years, though in Ontario, with my Québécoise wife (I may not necessarily understand the local Acadien slang, (they all speak a more standard French when dealing with outsiders) the displays would use a formal, literary French; as you probably know, these Acadiens aren't really uneducated and illiterate - that's just a Toronto impression/stereotype (prejudice?).
Anyway, thanks for the heads up.
"Don't be stupid. You need to know the difference"
"Truth is, it's almost impossible to separate..."
White people are Cajun brown to black people are creole but culturally it’s the same
@@chiccngeorge3058it is no where near the same, culturally.
@@ownthenight01Well, what did the cajuns brought to Louisiana that we can say it's distinctly cajuns? Literally nothing in Louisiana is cajun.
@@roybabineaux5353 ok.
DERR, LOOK EVERYONE, TWO PHRASES OUT OF CONTEXT, DERRRRR
As a Cajun, it’s awesome to see videos on our culture that aren’t a joke or stereotypical.
As a Nova Scotian it always amazes me that nobody was taught that elsewhere. Acadians and cajuns? Y'all got the short end for daring to believe the natives were people too even having kids with em. The expulsion is barely taught about these days and it's depressing that public school seems to be a government decided curriculum that neglects to ever teach the governments past failings, almost suspicious, innit?
As a human, I like how he explained that none of it matters anyway.
As a comedian, I will continue to make jokes on the culture and it’s stereotypes.
Now, you know Boudreaux and Tibadeaux exist for real
@@Thekarateadult😂
I lived in golden meadow Louisiana for 3 years work related. It was the best time of my life. The people all over Louisiana were great. I was young then and got to experience a lot
On a trip to LA in 1976 we stopped for lunch at a cafe in Golden Meadow. We were surprised to find that everyone in the cafe was speaking CajunFrench. The waitress was kind enough to deal with us in English.
Hey that’s my home town! Lived there for 35 years.
Cajun music reminds me so much of the east coast Canadiana folk I grew up with on the TV, the apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree
As someone born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, I am extremely impressed with the historical accuracy of your video. Well done!
Wtf
But he got it wrong they weren't exiled for refuses to bow to a different monarch but exiled to make way for English speaking settlers. This is highlighted by that fact that Quebec in addition to its Quebecqui population also features a small Acadian population made up of exiles
Creole is actually a specific,fully melinated human tribe.They are not the products of forced miscigenation.Now the term is usurped to mean 'light skin good hair' but ethnic Creole are not descendants of euros or spaniards.Cajuns are not 'closely related' to Creole in any way except the parts of the southern Slave culture they imitated.Most importantly,not all fully melinated people originate from Slaves or in Africa which is a modern continent.Before you attempt to 'educate',make sure you aren't spreading whitewashed info put out by colonziers❤
@@rogaldom4979the video just said monarch, never specified which one.
@@phoney4387no it’s actually not. Their are creoles of all different colors from different backgrounds. It’s not a race it’s an ethnic group.
As a Nola (creole) I can proudly say you did Louisiana justice with this one sir. Thank you, I definitely just learned something I never knew myself even being native.
He’s leaving out the most important fact that they were forcefully moved down there in what was called “The Great Expulsion” because there was already a French presence in Louisiana, they were sent down there forcefully, they didn’t just happen to end up there … the Acadians came from Maine as well and many of them mixed with Natives. This was good but bruh left out key parts that people should know.
People should know they were forcefully moved in the Great Expulsion. Also Acadia national park is in Maine. Acadia is of course where the word “Cajun” comes from.
@@citomakaveezlyhe did say they were exiled.
@@kaisha915 I know but he said “some ended up in Louisiana” as if they were butterflies in the wind who happened to end up in Louisiana as a result of random fate or whatever, haha. When the truth is they were sent directly down there by the British.
@@citomakaveezly
You should have mentioned _Evangeline_
You know how long I’ve been waiting this
I'm French and grew up in the Western part of France! Part of my ancestors are from there. I have a lot of very distant cousins in Quebec, and the amazing Louisiana culture means a lot to me. Excellent short video! Merci beaucoup!😅
Thank you for using the cover of the book “they say the wind is red” when you mentioned indigenous peoples as creole. That book is about my mothers’ father’s tribe the MOWA and our fight for acknowledgment as a distinct tribe and not a part of the larger Choctaw nation culturally.
My dad has this book in his giant collection of historic and cultural media, I remember the cover but I never actually got to read it myself. Thank you for commenting about it, that’s amazing! Can’t wait to find and read it now
Very cool!
@@LivingDeadBabyDoll please do. This book has been around since the 90s and unfortunately never had the impact our tribe wanted, the MOWA are still considered a band of Choctaw. Hopefully if enough people learn about us, we can try again with more success.
@@SoulsInsanitythanks for mentioning this, I didn't know but I'll definitely check it out. Sending you much love from the Eastern door. #NYMohawk #BearClan #Taino
Bruh.
Creoles: “You can doooiit!”
Cajuns: “You can dooitt all night long!”
I dont get it
Goat comment 😂😂
@newt2120 you never watched the waterboy movie?
Otherwise known as Edomites
Perfect way to sum it up! 😂
I was born in the early ‘90s and started reading & collecting comics in kindergarten. For the longest time, Gambit was the only frame of reference I had for Cajun people.
I've always sinplified creole & cajun to black-french and white-french lol. Loved getting this explanation.
That’s what I got from this. White vs non-white French descendants.
@@Jules-fr5gmno. see it again. Creole is not that
There are still white creoles alive today, but nowadays they call themselves Cajun (even though none of their ancestors were Acadian), because as you said it, most people just separate it down the racial line.
I mean, that isn't technically correct, but I grew up in the New Orleans area (westbank) and that's kind of how it is categorized in my mind too.
Nah… because that’s wrong as fuckk
Both are White French mixed with other heritages
This the first correct definition of the difference between a Cajun and a Louisiana Creole I have seen on UA-cam! Great Job!! Take it from a New Orleans born, Louisiana raised half Cajun, half Creole, 100% Coonass historian, this the correct definition!!
Yes, I’ve so many people say so many stupid and half true statements that it’s crazy. I also love the pictures.
I'm a Cajun who lives in California. I'm surprised when people even understand what a Cajun even is! 💖@@vonda26777
"Coonass"... now THAT'S how I know you really are from Nola!
💯 I'm the daughter of a Nola Creole mom and an Cajun/Creole dad from Lake Charles.
i’m from Creole, Louisiana
my grandfather was French and my grandmother is Mexican, absolutely love the culture
my coonass moved to Cecilia now i’m a Cajan
Love the term coonass, not many people outside Louisiana know it or understand it's not necessarily a pejorative or offensive term
@@shadowexecutive3243 definitely don’t hear it a lot as much either but i’m proud to be from Louisiana
IM NEVER LEAVING ! #RegisteredCoonAss
No way! I go hunting down in Creole!
@@geauxlsut definitely some good duck hunting and fishing down here
Me too!!!
If I wasn't confused enough before, I am even more confused now! Thank you for the clarification!
Right? This is how I felt when I watched a baseball video on what constitutes a balk. "This is legal, except when it's not."
@bossfan49 , I thought I'd die without knowing the difference, but phew! Thank God for this man explaining it to us!... One thing is not like the other, but they are the same, and you can't tell the difference... that explains it all! 😂😅😅😅
I’m Creole but it’s nice to hear about Cajuns; everyone just forgets about them!😂
Not if your a Gambit fan.
are you from Louisiana? because how could you forget?
@@JamMasterKae No, I’m a Texan🙂
Cajuns are more widely know than Creoles in everywhere BUT New Orleans apparently, because we have Cajun restaurants all the way up here at the Canuck border, but I didn't know what "Creole" meant until a couple years back.
Literally noone in any state I've ever been had forgotten about either. They may mix up associated contributions, and it's terribly difficult most times to tell one from the other vs everyone else who is not Creole or Cajun, but literally everyone knows that both distinctions exist.
They got one thing in common.
They both ain't into bland food.
God bless em all.
They aren't creole
Learned the hard way once that they take personal offense if you ask for food with no spice 😂
Not bland.... But not tasty either 😅
@@StuGT33 I disagree
@@FritzMonorail hey you have every right to. We all have a right to our opinions.
This is important for foods because you need to know if it's going to be cajun or creole style. For example, greole gumbo (a popular soup down here) is known for having duck, onions, or tomatoes. A traditional cajun style will have chicken and sausage. And keep in mind that some people over here will go bonkers of you get it wrong.
It gets nuts. Most of the time, it’s a mix. You get étouffée, gumbo, blue crab, frog legs, fried pickles and a side of lagniappe and a kiss from your momma! C'est Si Bon
Gumbo is the best. I would say the only way to tell how creole a family is… sit down for dinner.
I don't care. Get mad...
Calling my gumbo soup is a cause for violence
@@jrich436As long as it doesn’t have tomatoes
I’m Cajun and this was new info to me. My grandpa always just simplified it by saying “They’re almost the same but Cajuns are more French and Creoles are more Spanish
That's a great explanation 🎉
The term creole was originally used by “black” people to differentiate themselves from Africans who recently arrived as slaves. It says it on the French creole website.
Actually, the word as it originated in colonial Mexico was "criolla" and it specified Spaniards born and raised in the New World. The word came to Louisiana during the time Louisiana was Spanish. New Orleans mulattos call themselves "Creoles" erroneously. Creoles were Spanish colonials.
If it says it on the website, then it must be true😂
Hell anyone can make up whatever story that serves their needs.
Yt people steal everything. I bet most yt people don't even know why the French sold them Louisiana for cheap. They were afraid the new freed Haitians would come across the waters and incite the black folks n America to revolt. And they come in these comments trying to Gaslight people like history don't exist. Creol don't belong to yall but yall still took it, just like how humans beings didn't belong to yall but you guys still had owned them.
It's almost like words can have different meanings in different places. Creole in the Bahamas does not equal creole in Louisiana, for example.
I was born and raised in rural Nova Scotia. I met some people from Lafayette. I was shocked by their accent. They sounded like they were from where I was raised in Nova Scotia. My ancestors are from UK and Germany.
Amazing after so much time has past that we still have much in common. Acadian's influenced Nova Scotia culture and can still be felt today.
Well in MN we have a lot of people who came from Sweden and still make up part of our culture. Basically the USA is a huge melting pot of the world which make one of the most unique countries in the world and one of the greatest. It also cause us to have a problem with racism. Other other coutries do not have the racism like we do mainly because they have mostly one culture and one group who make a huge majority of the people. In almost every country in the world the minority population tends to be looked down on. But I though it was so funny Europe calling out our racism for decades and then they started to get all the Syrians refugees and they are having the same problem we with excepting strangers who have a total different belief system then the majority.
@@JAM661 Canada is about as multicultural as it gets. The city of Toronto is most notable.
Not every culture is a good fit for immigration. The immigration policies failed to discriminate when it was necessary for unity and state security. There are many examples. Multiculturalism has always led to conflict over different values and competition for resources going back to antiquity.
My guess is that the Swedish immigrants have fit in nicely in Minnesota. Much like Dutch farmers have settled well where I was raised. Even though there was jealousy because the Canadian government granted the Duth farmers land rights over the original Canadian families. The culture is compatible with North America
A partir de Lafayette. A partir de Lafayette il font change' mon nom. Lament and love to all...
Lafayette gang!
Thanks for sharing. Ive moved to Louisiana and was a bit fascinsted by the distinct culture. Lafayette accent has a bit of a different sounding accent as compared to other parts of southern louisiana. New orleans has maybe 5 different accents, one around metarie and kenner some other and most famously distinctive is chalmette a suburb to the east side. Really distinctive crazy sounding accent (no offense). Every time i hear someone i ask them their home town. I would say there are maybe 20 different sounding accents in southern louisiana. Vachery has a distinctive accent as does Gramercy. Its all very interesting to me. Its going to dissapear now with how things are changing society and economy and travel and internet entertainment influence. The sad thing is the french language dissapearing.
As you travel across the United States, you discover that there are almost as many cultures as there are counties! In my travels, I found the U.S.A. to be so incredibly diverse and interesting... and loved the regional foods with few exceptions.
Before traveling internationally, Americans should take advantage of the cultures right here, at home, first! You won't be disappointed!
What were some of the exceptions
It's a lot easier to experience more while traveling internationally though 😂 I went to Europe for the first time this summer and got to see three different countries while driving the same distance that would be exactly the same here in the US.
@@CreativeC13 you should learn more of your local history 😊 it's only in the last generation or two that states became so blended and meaningless, truly fascinating if you look down and recognize how unique each states history is and their people ❤ I love to travel, but it makes me love my home all the more
What is a county?
Counties are small geographic areas. There are over 3,000 counties in the U.S., though in the southern U.S., a county is called a "parrish," and NYCity has "boroughs," one of which is Manhattan.
“Wooimbouttamakeanamefomyselfhea”
Canadian from down east here; I’m a Cajun (Acadian) from the group of leftovers that didn’t go to the meeting with the English but hid in the forest. I love how our traditions are still surviving in Louisiana!!! I hear our French names on tv shows and the French slang that we still use. ❤
I grew up 2 hours from the Texas-Louisiana state line and let me tell you, it’s like a whole nother world there. Plenty of people speak languages I’ve never heard of, eat foods that I’ve never seen before, and play music you can’t find anywhere else.
Back in the 90s when AOL was still a major part of getting people online, I used to participate in a message board about the south. One of the recurring themes was the debate over whether we in Texas and those in Florida counted as the south. I told them at minimum, *_East_* Texas did, because if I were to drop you off in the middle of nowhere along the Texas -Louisiana border and you didn't have a map or a guide, I would defy you to tell me which one you were in based on either the accents or the flora and fauna.
Tyler texas here
@@tejaswomangood explanation. A lot of lines are.political or scientifi. Based and have no basis on real life. ❤
Idk, I live in northern Louisiana (born and raised in Arkansas) and I have yet to encounter any Cajun culture. All there is up here is Popeye's, the occasional crawfish boil, and fleur des lis decorations. Kinda just feels like someone sprinkled a little Tony's on generic southern rural culture. I would like to visit New Orleans sometime to see what it's really like - I haven't been there since I was too young to remember.
@@cailin5301Hi. Yes, North Louisiana is pretty much the same as East Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A border running thru Alexandria would make sense lol. Good people and fascinating history on both sides!
I really like this this gave me a quick fun non offensive history lesson while making me wanna learn more if i ever had to opportunity to visit that state. Thank you i really like shorts like this.
You realize history is supposed to offend you right?
"Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it."
If you don't see the evils of the past, if you don't see the things that make you "Uncomfortable", how will we learn to rise above those evils.
It falls on deaf ears because now there are people who are trying to exterminate the Jews for the upteenth time in history.
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who learn are doomed to watch others repeat it."
@ravishing_cadet4625 well yes the whole learning from history part. But sometimes its nice to learn about the, well, nice parts of history.
@@ravishing_cadet4625Just because you googled those quotes, doesn't mean you're an expert or wise
@@M50A1 Nah you're right, but having a Master's Degree on the subject kinda does though. I'm working on becoming a history professor. Specifically Ancient Cultures. See you don't have to have a degree though. Any idiot can look back in history and see the patterns. It's just too bad people are too stupid to do so.
@@ravishing_cadet4625 So..... who's the one that decided to look back at those patterns? I didn't 😂
Deadpool people who never heard o Cajuns will be here soon, because they think the accent is fake lol.
Gambit is making me do cajun accent research
I was at my friends the other night and we were talking about our Acadian ancestry here in Canada. He mentioned one of his ancestors being exiled twice. He was sent down to the states, walking all the way back up to marry have children and only to be exiled again.
We both descend from the women sent over in the 1600s known as the Fille du Roi.
Cajun here! My Dad was born in Kaplan Louisiana in 1919. Our family name is Suire. We were one of the first Exiled families in France One Grandparent is descended directly from France to Louisiana, they were actually deported having broken a law and deported to Louisiana when it was still part of France then one came to Louisiana by way of Nova Scotia. My Dad was the swampiest swamp Cajun you'd ever want to meet 💖
Almost everyone descended from "French Canadian" is the descendant of a Fille du Roi, which is crazy to think of, when you consider there were less than 1000 of them!
God my 9th grade French class is weeping right now, but fille du Roi means “women of the monarch/king”?
@@TheHaywire924 It's more like "daughters of the king", since these were mostly orphans who depended on the state for survival. The same way we sometimes say that foster kids are under "the care of the state."
@@perilouspigeon6613 That's very interesting!
Great example how cultures can blend or live side by side, socialising through food and entertainment.
Proud Louisiana man here. My father is creole and my mother is cajun and neither of them taught me French.
Thank you! I’m a Canadian of Loyalist descent whose ancestors fought FOR the King at the time of the American Revolution and were exiled in 1784 to Upper Canada now Ontario. Your explanation was clear and elucidating. Merci. !!
Thank you for your service.
@@heycidskyja4668 they didn't service anything
The painting of the native lady looking over her shoulder is one of my husband's ancestors. She and her husband had a part in our nation's founding.
They were very good spies against the crown.
oh what's her name? I'd love to research on this
Yes. Tell us more please.
Wow
I'm English and my dad is Australian. My whole life ( I'm 53) my dad has played cajun and creole music as he loves the music so much. I love it too as it's a childhood memory as well as a current experience. It's incredible. Thank you
That's a wonderful story, pal.
"Zydeco" music? Yeah it is super fun perhaps :)
its called zydeco lol
RELEVANCE?
@@DHankins19 reason for being an asshole? Stop tryna make people as miserable as you
this was a much bigger knowledge bomb than I was anticipating from the first frame. kudos
Hilarious that we, in neighboring Texas, have a large German community
Heyhey! Acadian here! Always wanted to go South to meet the cousins. :)
You and me both. I drove my truck by there 20 years ago but, i need to stop by for sure.
A man who's educated and educating the people about his own people. Very cool to see someone truly understand the area they're from and why things are the way they are.
To bad it's not exactly right, lol. Laissez le bon temp rouler!
@@benjamintickle1476ok now I’m interested! what did he get wrong for future reference?
@@blacksnapper7684 ok, where people come from for one, creole is what the Spanish called all children born in their colonies and the French and Cajun in Louisiana are different French settlers . If he can't see the difference between creole and Cajuns physically is puzzling seeing how creole have African and Caucasian features while Cajuns don't and although they both speak French in Louisiana in the Caribbean the creole language, a mainly Spanish and African mix, is more dominant.
bro got that morning flow
First time hearing Cajuns after hearing Gambit's rizz accent
Thanks for this very concise explanation. I was born in Lafayette, Louisiana but now live in North Carolina. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain this to people in North Carolina. Now I'm just going to send them your video
😂
Lafitte La.here. Every time I use maps or Google and I say Lafitte Lafayette comes up.
We have the best culture. My mom is from Manchac, La and my dad from Tornado, WV where they have lived for the past 25 years. It’s so funny. She has these 5 ft tall alligators pulling a sleigh that she puts out at Christmas. I ship her fresh crawfish in May and King Cake in Feb.
My preacher was Cajun, dark a swarthy, short. His wife a statuesque, blond Texan. He sang beautifully. I loved him. Humility and kindness.
In cuisine, the big differentiator is the presence/absence of tomatoes. Cajun food traditionally does not have tomato in it, creole food does.
This is Gambit Dialect coach yall 🗣️
Ok but why is the quality some documentary level shit plus your voice fits oddly well for voice acting
Except he's wrong in a couple places lol?
Pretty sure the voice is AI. Has some parts where it messes up oddly, like when it tries to say New Orleans
If this is documentary level for you then you're a dumbass. 😂
So they are French Mexican
@@kristianstrm2375nah he's doing the voiceover, you're hearing the cuts from editing out pauses most likely
Schooled us on a few hundred years in 30 seconds! Preciate it!
Be wise not everything online is true
@@believeringod.4004that’s why you do your own personal research to verify their claims.
Loved the video. People always wonder why Cajun and Creole get along so good with each other. Well, it’s because we share so many traditions, It’s almost like we’re family to each other.
Laissez les bons temps rouler Louisiana!
There's something so cinematic about this video that i cant explain💯
Thank you for the video. I am Creole. My mother still speaks Creole French. People do get offended when they get labeled the wrong culture. Both have the best food in the world. My sister made a gumbo last week. Choooooo
Thank goodness someone finally tried to explain this. People never believe me when I say Cajuns were from nova scotia
And New Brunswick.
Cajuns have no African ancestry. Creoles do. That's the major difference.
That’s so weird lol. Why wouldn’t ppl believe you on that? It’s in TONS of history books 😂
@@swannoir7949 weird that out of all the racial groups that make up Creole it’s just African ancestry excluded for Cajun.
@@majorlazor5058this is the deep south USA we're talking about and these cultures were developing alongside chattel slavery of black people and racial segregation so there being a divergence along racial lines isn't very surprising to me
WOW! What an amazing teacher‼️😺thnx
Worked with both on a work crew one winter some 35 years ago. They both taught me to snort a pinch of cayenne pepper when you get a head cold (and it worked)
I’m a Creole here. I noticed most people use the two interchangeably and they don’t really know that there’s a difference. The foods have blended so much that’s probably why I’d imagine. It’s the food most people think of when they hear Creole and Cajun unless they from Louisiana, and they actually know what it is.
This is the way all over the damn planet. And it's always bthis way. way.
Creole really only gets mentioned in a few movies and the biggest was probably Interview with the Vampire and he didn't explain what it meant
Everything exported says Cajun, on it and they aren't going to research the difference
My dad grew up in lousiana.
If your crawfish boil wedding reception is in the holler with all 127 cousins its a cajun wedding.
We had to drive through a cow pasture to get there. I grew up in backwoods illinois and missouri and I felt like the city boy at that wedding.
There isn't much of a difference in SW Louisiana. My family there (and many of the neighboring families) who call themselves Creoles are mixed with French, Native, African, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and even Jewish, but they're all direct descendants of the French Acadian exiles who settled there, so they're literally Cajuns too.
Please don’t lose or let go of your heritage
I was born in Cape Verde ( a small country in Africa colonized by Portugal) we call ourselves “Crioulo”, and we speak Cape Verdean Creole, we speak Portuguese also. I didn’t know about the others “Creole” before coming to America. 😊
Creole just means language or create a new language. Of course there’s creoles outside of Cape Verde.
That's the thing about the New World. Eventually, even one race, differences and distinct cultures can develop.
@@LanceDa510 I never said there was only one creole. I said when I was there I didn’t know about the other ones, because internet wasn’t the same that it is today. I know the definition of creole thank you
I used to think that creole itself was a specific language spoken the same way by every group that spoke creole. It helps now that people are more specific when they say it, like Haitian creole.
There were a lot of people from Cape Verde on Cape Cod in Ma.
Exactly, well said. My mother was born in New Iberia and raised in New Orleans. Her six children were born in California where she moved after WWII. Everything you say is correct.
I've studied schoolgirl French, and by consequence a bit of French-American culture, but this is the best summary I've ever come across! fantastic.
Both cultures make great food. 😊
You’re goddamn right😂😤🥰🍽️
Texan here, I love some Louisianan cooking and agree with this statement.
I read this in Jeffrey Dahmer’s voice
I see you went straight to the important part.
I always think about trying to hit a food tour of the southwest starting in san diego and ending in miami
I'm a light skin black girl from Mississippi but when I moved to Georgia people constantly ask me if I was Cajun or Creole. I never could understand why people didn't know the difference.
My sister and I were in the park one day when this white guy asked us where we some of them Cajuns from New Orleans. My sister looked at him and said "Naw, We some of them black folks from Mississippi." 😂
You got someone recent in your family tree multi generational mixed 60/40 75/25, or a one drop rule because you very yella 😂. I’m not being rude btw, America don’t have middle ground boxes and we all just blk, so ppl may be surprised how mixed they are after slavery times
@@DoubleBeezy you'll be surprised how many people mixed after slavery times. You have to remember in Mississippi a lot of people worked as maids. So these women were taking advantage of easily.
It was a lot of hypocrisy going on. It was all about power. Just because someone believed in segregation didn't mean it didn't apply to them. If you know what I mean. You can't date my daughter but that doesn't mean I can't take your daughter. Storm Thurmond is a perfect example of this. This man was a segregationist who did not want blacks and whites together. However it was revealed that he had a biracial daughter that he took care of.
I believe her name was Essie Mae Washington-Williams.
Growing up I knew several older black women who are the offspring of white men and black women. It was a open secret. I knew two kids in my class who were first cousins. One was black and one was white. They both share the same grandfather. The only thing that was different was the black boy knew and I assume the white boy didn't. If he did, he had never acknowledged him. I knew because my mother told me. The funny thing is both of them had the same facial features.
This is so well known in Mississippi. I'm laughing about it. Look, just because somebody wears a white sheet at night, doesn't mean that he won't get in between the sheets with somebody black. I can tell you so many stories. It's almost like a right of passage to have a white wife and a black mistress. I could tell you some stories that could ruin careers and families. SMH
You can't be cajun. Cajun is Caucasian. Creole, is mixed. That's who we call creole. The creole were made to distinguish the African population in louisiana. He made thus video. I was born and raised in Louisiana. I know the history that was taught, but I don't believe it's absolutely true. I'm from the southern part of Louisiana. None of my family considered themselves such. My pawpaw side of the family owned land. Where do you think the voodoo comes from? They are erasing an entire population of people influenced or downplay it. Yall, sitting here saying crazy stuff like is a compliment. Mississippi is another part of Louisiana, but without the Caucasian. We can not erase our African ancestors. Louisiana culture is not just in louisiana, it also in south Carolina and Southern GA. They not creole neither cajun. They are native and African.
@@TheOnlyLadyBella we are all mixed with involuntary, voluntary ppl and u have ppl like I explained constantly mixing, so that’s y I never understood how to guess which percentage is automatically bad. I totally understand what u saying though. My great great parent was white and my mom dad also had a white grandparent but somehow they still both half white on dna test and (my grandma had the constant mix also from creole background) my test came out 71% African 28% European 1% indigenous. I personally only see race as a social construct and noticing how it’s no logic to the man made thing (yes I’m a blk man 😂) . I mean if it was at least some logic based on percentages, maybe we could all better understand it’s just a social construct. Btw my dad side was 88%+ African, so I expected my result range
@theonlyladybella44480 I don't get you people. It's not a flex. Many women did it for survival. How can a group of terrorists love a group of people they enslaved? Those slave suffered from Stockholm syndrome. Coloristism still exists amongst black especially in the south. I'm from Louisiana, I know it exists. Brainwashed slave mixing with the slave terrorists....smh...it's nothing to be proud about. I see if slavery never existed. All these people love on their own admission, that wasn't the class. They were mentally beaten down and worship the lesser race themselves.
There's also a group of Alaskan Creoles originating from Russian Creoles colonizing various Alaskan native groups
😮I lived in Louisiana for 4 years in Cajun land. Close to the Texan border.
. I find the people very welcoming, much more than in the Eastern cities. They also enjoy life. They have Fait dodo parties every Friday where they dance and enjoy Cajun food. There is much to say about Cajuns besides their excellent , traditional food.
As a born and raised creole women from southwest Louisiana, this was done so respectfully.
I do want to add that when thinking in terms of food just know most is creole as gumbo is obviously a black ( native, African) word and a lot of the rich sauce type foods are considered creole and not Cajun. However, like the host in video pointed out, we are so intertwined that it is hard to distinguish!
As a Central Louisianan from Alec up we’re an annex of east Texas
Idek what to call myself. I have both Creole and Cajun ancestors... My great (x2 possibly x3) grandfather is cajun, while the others are creole.
This guy could be Creole as well, no?
@@Ericsaidful if you identify as white then u are Cajun if you identify and black; creole.
@@chrisbro1849 You can’t really identify as those things, you either are or you aren’t. He looks white in the video but that doesn’t mean he isn’t creole as creole also encompasses people of European ancestry. I don’t know how much you know about Spain and Portugal but a lot of them have white skin as well, always have.
There are also creoles in nearby mississippi and they make gumbo as well 😅
Short version:Cajuns sound like gambit
There is no way I’m gonna remember all that.
But I sure do love the food.
Creol in Portuguese means born on the continent. In colonial Spanish America, Criollos, which sounds similar to Creol, meant unmixed spaniards as opposed to spaniards mixed with Native Americans or mixed with Africans.
Ya got weak ass dna
Creolo in portugues means to breed. It was originally used to describe my people. cape Verdians” The original Criolos”. It’s just a mix of multiple language and culture. Usually European, African, etc..
I highly doubt the natives mixed with the smelly Spanish🤣
Actually Criollo mean " Spanish Person not born in Spain or born off spain" Basically you are a non Peninsular spaniard. It was a social/caste system. My guess is these terms were used because they didnt trust their nationality (xenophobic) so therefore were considered "second class citizens" basically not TRUE Spaniard citizens just subjects. SMH.
Beautiful lesson in your culture sir. Love from New Zealand.
As a Cajun who just visited your country last December, my wife and I love your country. We even named our first born son Zealand. We hope to move there one day
@@Unfamiliar_Fruityour son getting bullied my guy
@@danielevans8910Thanks for your input. Was waiting on pins and needles for it
New Zealand is over rated!
@matthewducote8442 big love brother. I greatly admire the Cajun spirit. Also if I ever get over there I gotta try some of that food!.
Which is why I’m in love with Louisiana…
I like them all, especially when food and music are involved.
This man just taught me everything my social studies teacher taught me in like half the time
Funny how that works. Some school districts spend more time trying to hide and discourage factual information
And that’s why school is largely unnecessary in its current form
As a Cajun when i moved away to FL and went to a restaurant that miss spelled it when naming a dish on their menu. I asked, "what yall doing to make it Cajun? Because i want to know because I am a Cajun." That girl looked at me and said, "oh you are named after a seasoning?" Nearly broke my soul.
😂 Nooooo
Has not been a time in traveling this country that I have not come across some "Cajun" restaurant.
We used to stop in just to see. We don't even waste our time now, its NEVER actually good
Had an uncle move to Cali. Told us some local place had a chef from "back home" that "flew in" ingredients
Told him "ive heard this all before and its always BS"
He kept talking about how good it was and this dish Redbeans Ahnjoulay
Had me meet the chef and everything when we ordered
Opened up the beans and there were carrots in it -_-, but thats not where this falls apart
I take the menu because I want to know how much hes jacking these people out there on this "authentic" food
Thats when I saw it.... when I stopped laughing I asked him what it was called again
"Ahnjoulay" he says
I said "You mean Andouille"? (ahn-dew-we for you uninitiated who may read this) and told him he's been gone to long and should be ashamed of himself
His wife laughed, he didn't....
🤣
“Don’t be stupid you need to know the difference”
“The truth is it’s almost impossible to separate~”
😮Cajuns didn't "make their way" to Louisiana. The British put them in boats, They expelled them, separating families who couldn't reunite later. There is a beautiful poem called Evangeline written by a lover wouldn't find her love. There is ,in St Martinville, in Louisiana, , a statue of Evangeline in memory of those two lovers. A painful story. One of many.
I love how America has such a unique culture in it. So interesting!
I love it too ❤
As a Hatian, we also consider ourselves creole as it's our native language
(Edit) I stand corrected. Two different things
Actually, your language is Kreyòl not Kréyòl or Creole. Contrary to popular opinion, those three words have different contextual values as they are of the result of three different languages.
I thought the language was societal collapse
Nah your ancestors murdered all the men, women, old people and children that were anything “other” than African. You are not Creole….as those are a mix of people. Some of us haven’t forgotten the genocide Haitians committed.
@@Premyeexactly right
@@Premyeway to man splain
We were Acadian that stayed in Canada.My Granddad was a boxer and lobsterman.Played a hell of an Acadian fiddle.
I grew up 45 miles across the line in Texas from Louisiana, I love my Creole and Cajun neighbors; God blessed them with good food, beautiful women and a proud sense of character. Going home for Christmas, I’m getting me some boudin and mudbugs while there.
I want to go
Orange County Texas here!
I travel for work and “goin’ home” is such a reward for me. I love my lil piece of swamp on the TXLA line.
Boudin, BUGS, gumbo, jambalaya and pistolettes at home are unbeatable.
We know how to eat.
I am from New Orleans and I have been to 13 countries and 39 states. We absolutely have the best food. I won a trip to the Marlboro ranch in Montana and they ran a close second.
As a generational descendant of French settlers my ancestors had broken from the mainland of Nova Scotia and were peacefully living in Cape Breton. I hail from a mixture of French and Aboriginal Mi'kmaq peoples on the east coast of Canada. It's nice to see the message.
I recently learned that there are Acadian settlememts in Maine too.
My dream is to visit Louisiana ❤ the food, the people, the swamps, I would love to see it all
I live in Texas near the Louisiana border. My father is Cajun and I am proud to be half Cajun. Many of my cousins live in Southwest Louisiana. Abbeville to be exact. A beautiful little town south of Lafayette. Nice to hear a correct explanation of our culture. 👍🏻🧓🏻🇺🇸Texas
Yep, that’s what we like to call Cajun Country.
Well said man. My ancestors were immigrants from France to New Orleans. When I tell people I’m Creole, far too many of them look at me and say “HuR dUr YoU dOnT lOoK bLaCk”
Cajuns are generally white descendants from France while the Creoles are others. Usually when white people “settle/colonize” a place they separate themselves immediately from the other demographics of people. Don’t get mad at the others to not want to include you in something your ancestors created for them
Creoles of Color were the largest and most recent group to make any distinctions or export any of that culture specifically
Black movies mention it in connections to Voodoo and New Orleans specifically and so a lot of people and almost all blacks outside of Louisiana think that creole means light skinned blacks from the New Orleans area not understanding it means any of us who had family in the colony
I’m from the gulf coast, Mobile Alabama, which was the capital of French Louisiana before the Louisiana purchase and about 100 miles from New Orleans, got plenty family in New Orleans as well. Cajuns were basically French white/Native American blend… and Creole’s were African, Portuguese and/or French heritage.. The word basically translates to “Native or Local”
So a creole could be of mixed lineage or not but from that particular community or colony.
My Father's paternal ancestors came to New Orleans from France. His maternal side came from Canada...I love genealogy!
@myke6135 - "Don't get mad" that people are being racist and denying him his ethnicity because his skin colour doesn't match? All cause some isolated white people from way back who are dead now did some stuff? Stuff that black and brown people all across the world still enforce within their societies (slavery)?
So... just accept modern racism cause people with a certain skin colour deserve it by proxy of ancient dead white skinned people?
Thank you for this awesome breakdown. I always wondered what the difference was.
I have a teacher from Louisiana who is creole and whenever I confuse him for Cajun he's like "we're basically the same it just depends on when you where exiled from Canada"
Louisiana’s culture is so different and unique! An American treasure for sure!
Nothing "American" about it
@@MeMe-hg5sxnothing more American than mixing other cultures and making it our own, stop being upset
@@MeMe-hg5sx i would really love an explanation for this logic
@@benwilliams9016 mixing cultures didn't start in America...
And where did you get "upset" from my factual comment
@@MeMe-hg5sx I mean, you’re being unnecessarily pedantic, never said mixing cultures is an America only thing, that’s silly
"Don't be stupid you need to know the difference ".......
"it's almost impossible to separate".😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂 Being that he’s from Louisiana…he won’t know that he contradicted himself. 🤭
Also a large number of Haitians migrated there as well especially after the revolution, anybody who either was seen as to French friendly or had other issues on the island tended to make that trek and some were brought over during the slave trade. It's why Haitian vodou it's very prominent especially in places like New Orleans.
I'm from Shreveport Louisiana one thing we knows. You don't mess with Cajuns or Creoles they are Badasses.
North of I10? You Yankee! 😂
The food is banging. I’m in SE TX and the food from both Cajun and Creole culture are staples. My family had gumbo for Christmas and Thanksgiving. It’s never too hot to eat it. 👏🏾
I swear I thought he was describing two different types of crawfish at first 😂
I'm an Acadian living in Nova Scotia God bless my Cajun brothers and sisters!!!
damn that old lady really meant it when she said she was creole
That's the best lesson ever given by a man riding a sewage pipe!