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Creoles and are
Mauritius is different from other African countries in close proximity because the largest group, and the majority of the population, is Indo-Mauritians ( people of Indian descent ) who make up 68 % of the population, while Creoles ( of African descent ) are only about a quarter of the population.
* 1751 – 1775 – 13 % of appointees to audiencias in the Spanish Empire are Creoles.
Creoles are languages that are developed and formed when different societies come together and are forced to devise their own system of communication.
Creoles share more grammatical similarities with each other than with the languages from which they are phylogenetically derived.
Descendants of the various freed slaves who landed in Sierra Leone between 1787 and 1792, are called the Creoles.
The Creoles play a leading role in the city, even though they are a minority of the overall Sierra Leone population.
Outside the city, Cajuns and Creoles often intermingle socially and culturally, and chances are that the cooking of Cajuns and Creoles living in Lawtell for example, have more in common with each other than the Creole dishes of a Lawtell resident and one from Isle Brevelle.
The " fiery Latin temperament " described by early scholars on New Orleans culture made sweeping generalizations to accommodate Creoles of Spanish heritage as well as the original French, though the latter as an ethic group are not considered " Latin " either ethnically or culturally.
Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.
The Creoles are a community with varied non-Anglo ancestry, mostly descendant of people who lived in Louisiana before its purchase by the U. S. The Cajuns are a group of Francophones who arrived in Louisiana after leaving Acadia in Canada.
Because of the migration of the French-speaking blacks and multiracial Creoles, the mixing of Cajun and Creole musicians, and the warm embrace of people from outside these cultures, there are multiple hotbeds of zydeco: Louisiana, Texas, Oregon, California, and Europe as far north as Scandinavia.
These issues can also be seen in other Portuguese Creoles ( Martinus 1996 ; see also Fouse 2002 and McWhorter 2000 ), but some are also found in colloquial Spanish.
However, there are still significant populations of Louisiana Creoles, from White-Americans, African-Americans, and Native American tribes who continue to speak this variety of French.
In Louisiana, empanadas are Creole savory meat pies, commonly made in Louisiana by Creoles in South and North Louisiana.
Portuguese Creoles are the mother tongue of Cape Verde ( it also has a largest number of standard Portuguese speakers ) and Guinea-Bissau's population.
* the French spoken by Creoles in the Indian Ocean ( Réunion, Mauritius, and Seychelles )-about 1. 6 million first and second language speakers of this French variety, not to be confused with French-based creole languages which are also spoken in the area.
* French Creoles are descended from a melting pot of French, African, Asian and Amerindian fusing into a language and culture know as Creole.
Rather than representing a revolutionary vanguard that will create a new Angolan identity, the Creoles of Luanda are depicted in the novels as a kleptocratic oligarchy.
The 55, 000 Saramakas ( some of whom live in neighboring French Guiana ) are one minority within this multiethnic nation, which includes approximately 37 per cent Hindustanis ( East Indian descendants of contract laborers brought in after the abolition of slavery ); 31 per cent Creoles ( descendants of Africans brought as slaves ); 15 per cent Javanese ( descendants of contract workers brought during the early 20th century from Indonesia ); 3 per cent Chinese, Levantines, and Europeans ; 2 per cent Amerindians ; and 12 per cent Maroons.
The Cajuns are descendants of French-Canadians from the region of Acadia, the Creoles are black and French-speaking.

Creoles and largely
Like other Caribbean Creoles, has a primarily English-derived vocabulary, though the island formerly had a creole with a largely French lexicon until the nineteenth century saw its replacement by influence from the British.

Creoles and Roman
Mauritian society includes people from many different ethnic and religious groups: Hindu, Muslim and Indo-Mauritians, Mauritian Creoles ( of African and Malagasy descent ), Buddhist and Roman Catholic Sino-Mauritians and Franco-Mauritians ( descendants of the original French colonists ).

Creoles and Catholic
The Grito also emphasized loyalty to the Catholic religion, a sentiment with which both Creoles and Peninsulares could sympathize ; however, the strong anti-Spanish cry of " Death to the Gachupines " ( Gachupines was a name also given to Peninsulares ) probably caused horror among Mexico's elite.
Sometimes the music was performed in the Catholic Church community centers, as Creoles were mostly Catholic.
The Grito also emphasized loyalty to the Catholic religion, a sentiment with which both Creoles and Peninsulares ( native Spaniards ) could sympathize ; however, the strong anti-Spanish cry of “ Death to the Gachupines ” ( Gachupines was a nickname given to Peninsulares ) probably had caused horror among Mexico ’ s elite.
The Breckenridges are protestants, while the Fontaines are Catholic Louisiana Creoles, and the plot hinges on the way that pride and misfortune conspire with cultural and political differences to keep prospective lovers from marrying.

Creoles and by
Black unrest and British pressure to abolish slavery motivated many Creoles to advocate Cuba's annexation by the United States, where slavery was still legal.
Over the course of the 19th century that gradually changed: the British and Creoles in the Freetown area increased their involvement inand their control over — the surrounding territory by engaging in trade, treaty making, and military expeditions.
French Creoles ( white Trinidadian elites descended from the original French settlers ) were being marginalised economically by large English business concerns who were buying up sugar plantations, and this gave them a fresh avenue of economic development.
La matanza, and all the liberation movements from the 1930s to 1980s would originate from the injustices committed by the Spanish rule, Creoles and other foreign power interventions.
* Bayou Folk ( 1894 ) by Kate Chopin who wrote about the Creoles and Cajuns ( Acadiens ).
Some may have descended from Atlantic Creoles, men of mixed African-Portuguese ancestry identified by the historian Ira Berlin as part of the charter generation of slaves, but most were descendants of English white women and African men in the British colonies.
The post was settled by French coming from France and French Creoles as well as Africans coming from the French West Indies ( Guadeloupe, Martinique and Santo Domingo, the west part of Hispaniola-Saint Domingue in French ), later by French coming from Paris ( like the family Provost ) via Fort de Chartres, Illinois.
It is similar to Cajun cuisine in ingredients ( such as the holy trinity ), but the important distinction is that Cajun cuisine arose from the more rustic, provincial French cooking adapted by the Acadians to Louisiana ingredients, whereas the cooking of the Louisiana Creoles tended more toward classical European styles adapted to local foodstuffs.
Jazz's roots come from the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, populated by Cajuns and black Creoles, who combined the French-Canadian culture of the Cajuns with their own styles of music in the 19th century.
However, segregationist Democrats in Louisiana classified Creoles with freedmen and by the end of the 19th century had disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites under rules designed to suppress black voting ( though federal law said all black men had the vote from 1870 ).
The Cane River National Heritage Area marks this area of influence, with plantations and churches founded by Louisiana Creoles.
It was sung in French patois by Creoles of African, French and Spanish descent.
Southern Black music traditions in the US have been known to change and evolve as quickly as they were being replicated by white artists, the music of the Creoles also eveolved into a more contemporaty amplified sound that was later called zydeco, which is the indigenous music of the Creoles or " Creole music ".
He was brought to the Louisiana Territory by his master after the Haitian Revolution, when thousands of French Creoles brought their slaves and mixed-race refugees also left the island.
This moved many Amerindians to deliberately seek to dilute their tribal identity and that of their descendants as a way for them to escape the service, by seeking intermarriage with people from different ethnicities, especially Spaniards or Creoles.
The Creoles of the Coast of Coromandel, such as of Meliapor, Madras, Tuticorin, Cuddalore, Karikal, Pondicheri, Tranquebar, Manapar, and Negapatam, were already extinct by the 19th century.
* 1821 — Russian Imperial decree gives Native Alaskans and Creoles civil rights protected by law
Working among the Miskitos and Creoles, by the end of the Century they had converted almost all of the inhabitants.

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