What is the difference between a creole and cajun person? (Ama: homes, school)

[HoustonTexas1]

Originally Posted by Squeaky2012

Interesting topic. I get kind of confused about the terminology of Creole, but I have always associated it as a person of Spanish/French descent whose ancestry can be traced back to the original French and Spanish settlers of New Orleans (and Louisiana, by extension).

My ex-GF would state that she was a Creole of Color (well, not in that terminology---she would just say Creole), and so began an interest in reading about their "culture" (I hate to generalize, since there are probably many subcultures under the larger Creole culture).

I read that Los Angeles has the 2nd largest Creole of Color population in the United States outside of New Orleans (it was in one of the Creole of Color websites...LouisianaCreoles?), and noticed that many black Angelenos have French and Spanish surnames (Augustine/Delacroix/Legaux/Ferreira), unlike most other areas of the nation. My ancestry is rooted in Mississippi, and we tend to have Anglo-Saxon slave surnames, much like the rest of Black America. There are also many Creoles of Color in the Bay Area of California, particularly in San Francisco, if I may recall.

True! The majority of "creoles" and black people that left Louisiana during the Great Migration (1940's-1970's) moved to California.

[pandorafan5687]

What Innotech said

[mhounit]

I would say that the main difference is , more people claim to be Cajun , than claim to be Creole . Most of them are neither .

[Fecamp68]

My Family emigrated from FeCamp, Normandie to Trios-Rivieres,Quebec. As far as I can tell, That was part of Acadia at that time. But, Can I claim myself Cajun? Also, can you really be accepted as Cajun by the locals if your not born in South Lousiana? Just Curious.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Fecamp68

My Family emigrated from FeCamp, Normandie to Trios-Rivieres,Quebec. As far as I can tell, That was part of Acadia at that time. .

Trois-Rivières was actually part of New France. Acadia was further to east, mainly present-day Nova Scotia.

[Fecamp68]

Bummer!
Oh Well, As long as I'm invited to a good Cajun (Hey Boooy!!) Crawfish Boil, I'll be happy...LOL

[SacalaitWhisperer]

Louisiana Creole people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[txcajungirl]

My Family emigrated from FeCamp, Normandie to Trios-Rivieres,Quebec. As far as I can tell, That was part of Acadia at that time. But, Can I claim myself Cajun? Also, can you really be accepted as Cajun by the locals if your not born in South Lousiana? Just Curious.

Yeah I'm also wondering this, I would really like to move there someday, but don't want to go where the locals don't accept outsiders (though I am acadian w/french surname) It's just that I've always lived in east TX because thats where my pop came to work and raise his family...

[L'Artiste]

Creole is descendant of spainish or french .. Cajuns are descendants of Canadian french

[linicx]

I've often heard Creole referred to the first settlers. It was first used to identify Creole from later arrivals. The exiled Cajun people were deported from what is now present day Nova Scotia, and eventually came to call Southwest Louisiana home.