Please don't think I'm stupid......?

Question

I am really not trying to offend anyone or anything, but what exactly is a creole person. I really don't know and I'm very interested in this.

Answer 1

Louisiana Creoles
Main article: Louisiana Creole people
In the US, the word "Creole" usually refers to people of any race or mixture thereof who are descended from settlers in colonial French Louisiana before it became part of the USA in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. Some writers from other parts of the USA have mistakenly assumed the term to refer only to people of mixed racial descent, but this is not the traditional Louisiana usage. It is now accepted that Creole is a broad cultural group of people of all races who share a French or Spanish background. Louisianans who identify themselves as "Creole" are most commonly from historically Francophone communities with some ancestors who came to Louisiana either directly from France or via the French colonies in the Caribbean. (Those descended from the Acadians of French Canada are more likely to identify themselves as Cajun than Creole.) The term is also often used to mean simply "pertaining to New Orleans".

Answer 2

thats not a stupid question .. not everyone understands

new orleans history is very interesting .. and old.

Creole is a person a person descended from early French or Spanish and black settlers of the United States Gulf states and preserving their speech and culture

the cajuns came from when the French immigrated to
Acadia/Nova Scotia .. then down here to New Orleans.. mixing with the Spanish creating their own Language.. Food... Music.. a whole different culture .. away from the United States.

new orleans is a beautiful city

Answer 3

There are several kinds. Creole from Louisiana are mixed french indian, black, etc., they usually live out in the swamps and speak a dialect of French. Creole from the Carribean, or Kreel as they pronounce and spell it are of West African (usually) decent, and are typically considered to be the decendants of escaped slaves brought by the British to cut Mahogany in the region. They speak a dialect of Enlish that combines African grammer and pronunciation and English and Irish phrases and words. Jamaican, Aruban, Belizean, Trididad and Tabago are all good examples of Kreel people in the Carribean. It really doesn't have much to do with the Spanish.

Answer 4

1. somebody of French ancestry: an inhabitant of the southern United States, especially southern Louisiana, who is descended from the early French settlers
2. language of Louisiana: the creolized French language spoken by the Creoles of New Orleans and southern Louisiana
3. language of Caribbean islands: a group of creolized languages, based on English and French, spoken on many of the islands of the Caribbean. Also called Patois
Also called Patwa
4. See Haitian Creole
5. West Indian of European ancestry: somebody who was born in or is a citizen of a West Indian or Latin American country, and who is of European, especially Spanish, descent
6. Creole speaker: somebody of both European and African ancestry who speaks a form of Creole

Answer 5

creole-
a person or persons of varied afro-anglo-french-spanish ancestry residing in louisiana.

the art, food, language, music, and history of creole people.

french/spanish language and culture unique to louisiana.

from the spanish criollo, meaning 'a local'.

Answer 6

Well of course you aren't,t stupid there is allot of things we don't know.unfortunately we we not born with much knowledge. My family is from lake Charles,Louisiana and i happen to be creole a Spanish and french decedent also mixed with black.we speak french.creoles can be Spanish and or french decedents that speak either language and are often mixed with black.

Answer 7

A person of Spanish ancestry.

Answer 8

people who are of French African Caribbean descend

Answer 9

y u asking us, look it up online.