can someone tell me the difference between being cajun and being creole?

Answer 1

Your first three answers are pretty much correct. As a purebred cajun, I can tell you. Creole is having a mixture of black (Carribean and slave), and or cajun (which includes white slaves....yes they had them too), and or spanish. They've pretty much settled down in the eastern part of Louisiana, the New Orleans area, but are also all over the Gulf south region. A cajun is a person who's family was originally from France. They moved to Canada, and got kicked out because of many reasons, one I understand is that they were told they had to speak English. They moved and settled in southern Louisiana. They were a very poor people had to learn to live off the land, which was quite different from France and Canada, but quickly adapted. The cajuns loved the area with its abundant wildlife, fertile lands and mild temperatures, and called it their own. There were other cajuns (white people) that were captured either up north in Canada or down south in Louisiana, and bought by slave owners and became white slaves, contrary to popular belief.

Answer 2

Interesting question! I hope you get an answer that actually explains it. I think that the "Cajuns" were French Canadians that lived in Arcadia near the Canadian border with Maine and, for some reason, had to leave that area and traveled, mostly by boat, to the area of Louisiana they now live in. (I learned that from that old cook's show on PBS a few years back.) A "Creole" is a mixture of Black slave, Black African, and Cajun, which originated on the Caribbean Islands. I don't know how right this is, though.

Answer 3

The Cajuns were the Arcadians that left Canada and moved to Louisiana because they would not assimilate and speak English. The Creoles are a mix of Spanish, Cajun (or French) and Black - that mixing took place within the Louisiana Purchase area and before the Purchase was admitted into the the U.S. per se.

Answer 4

Cajun factor your background comes from canadian admixture; and Creole is for born in Lousiania of a few blend: mixed in particular of French Spanish Indian and Black multiraces, yet lifestyle is choose makes Creole differs to easily "Black" or "mulatto"

Answer 5

creole person is French and black o Cajun i dnt know what that is never heard of it