Everyone I know says it's French heritage with African descent, but my social studies teacher says it's Spainish and something else mixed. Everyone in my family has at least a little creole in them. I'm also 13% French. The rest is Irish, Native American Jewish, and somewhere African descent. According to my grandmother, she hasn't heard of anyone being African in our family, and we can track our history down about 400 years.
2006-11-02 16:06:43 · 6 answers · asked by TDAdancer 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Dear Janine: Due to the French Creoles in New Orleans and in the Southern part of our country, we tend to think of Creole as French/African. But, I looked it up in a dictionary - The American Heritage Dictionary and saw that it said the following:
ANY European/African descent peoples. That means France would not be the only country they came from. ALSO, Spanish/African descent peoples from Spain (Europe) or Latin America.
So, Creoles come from a wide selection of nations and are thought of as including African descent as well as West Indies descent ( which is also partly African).
Best regards, Lana
2006-11-02 16:31:08 · answer #1 · answered by Lana S (1) 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creole as it is referred to in the USA is mostly a mixed cultural and racial group in Louisiana. It is a mostly French, African, and native mix.
Trivia: Early last century, the rest of the country pretty much feared and hated the creoles. Novelists like Lovecraft got rich writing horror stories that exploited racial suspicions about them.
2006-11-03 00:21:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creole is a mix between Caucasian, French, Indian, and African American.....
2006-11-03 00:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by noonie1104 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Creole technically refers to any language that originate as a pidgin language but now has native speakers. A pidgin language is "any simplified or broken form of a language, esp. when used for communication between speakers of different languages." It is often used to specifically describe the mixed-race people of Louisiana, since they speak a creole language. Check dictionary.com for specifics.
2006-11-03 00:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. somebody of French ancestry: somebody who comes from the southern United States, especially southern Louisiana, and is descended from early French settlers
2. language of Louisiana: the creolized French language spoken by the Creoles of New Orleans and southern Louisiana
2006-11-03 00:13:31 · answer #5 · answered by Mary Who? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am Creole. Creole is me
2006-11-04 20:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by chinesefoodruleZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋