''racial terms have evolved''

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Mon May 30, 2016 5:36 pm

coonasses fed me on deep fried gator when i was a deckie on push boats on the intracoastal age 18.
you about swaller your tongue that cooking is so good
back OT though.
the polite term "coloured" always seemed genteel and apt to me.
it was formerly used politely in the South of USA.
"white" seems very clumsy and inapt.
redneck- spot on- in afrikaans too

table42 · Post by **table42** » Tue May 31, 2016 9:16 am

Frank wrote, *LMAO
mosquito capital of the universe.
nice ppl and great cuisine as noted.?

Well, they're there all right. Strangely enough I found them to be a bigger problem in the north.
Fishing in Maine, Quebec or Norway was far worse.
Also, I never heard of Dengue or Malaria in Cajun Louisiana. It may not always have been like that. There is an old Cajun song, *A mosquito killed my sweetheart*"

* Un maraisquin a tue ma belle. For those of you who speak Parisian French I am aware that the word for mosquito is la moustique. That is not the Cajun word and my best effort is a compound noun based *marais" or swamp.

Here's a taste of Cajun music...

Ah oui, laissez les bons temps rouler

cptrelentless · Post by **cptrelentless** » Tue May 31, 2016 1:36 pm

table42 wrote:Frank wrote, *LMAO
mosquito capital of the universe.
nice ppl and great cuisine as noted.?

Well, they're there all right. Strangely enough I found them to be a bigger problem in the north.
Fishing in Maine, Quebec or Norway was far worse.
Also, I never heard of Dengue or Malaria in Cajun Louisiana. It may not always have been like that. There is an old Cajun song, *A mosquito killed my sweetheart*"

* Un maraisquin a tue ma belle. For those of you who speak Parisian French I am aware that the word for mosquito is la moustique. That is not the Cajun word and my best effort is a compound noun based *marais" or swamp.

Here's a taste of Cajun music...

Ah oui, laissez les bons temps rouler

Loads of them died when that Scottish guy ran the world's biggest tontine in France, I thought that was where Cajuns came from. I thought the Quebeckers were all left over French royalists. I don't see a problem with Oriental, you come from the right-hand side of the planet. We are Occidental. Suarez got into a lot of trouble, besides gnawing on people, as they are a lot less picky in South America about their epithets. He got done for calling someone a Negrito, I believe. Negro means black in Dago.
Ah, here's his name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)

table42 · Post by **table42** » Tue May 31, 2016 2:09 pm

I didn't much follow your historical explanation, but no matter a Cajun wouldn't understand it either. To be sure their original country of origin was France, but they refer only to their language as French, they see themselves as Cajuns which is a corrupt form of Acadia. They weren't thrown out of Quebec, but primarily The Maritime Provinces. Their connection to France has been lost over the centuries.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Tue May 31, 2016 4:36 pm

Excellent observation on John Law. He would do well on Wall Street now.

a big part of my family were irreligious utopian French who came to USA much later than the Acadiens.

French history in North America was very played down in my old high school, but many students had French surnames and were heavily intermarried with osage and cherokee people for hundreds of years
.
They were sending flatboats from illinois and Oklahoma down to New Orleans full of Pecans 200 years ago and more, and permanently settled way before the English came.
I spent 8 months based out of New Iberia working in the oil patch as a diver in 1978, and i had a ball.

Found it odd how the black and white communities were somewhat apart most of the time, but when they had the big festival times the barriers were down and the skirts were up!

table42 · Post by **table42** » Tue May 31, 2016 5:39 pm

In 1964 I worked as a translator for a graduate student who was getting a Phd in rural sociology; the survey was used for data to be incorporated in his thesis. I stumbled through two interviews when it became clear classical French was not the key. So I took a copy of the survey to a great priest from Belgium who had faced the same problem and was happy to help.

Now I wouldn't call the situation integrated, but to the Cajuns, at least the rural ones, it was no big deal, more like a joke than a serious social problem.

I returned frequently and there was always a home where I was welcomed and at least a huge pot of red beans and rice. Out of gratitude I bought beer. They showed me the good fishing holes and taught me how to track wild boar with a series of dogs including the indigenous Catahoula. Yes I was with them when they killed gator for the tail.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Tue May 31, 2016 5:52 pm

USA has some amazing cultural islands and the cajuns are right up there with the mexicans for their early appearance and persistence as a coherent thriving community.
they are an independent lot too.

table42 · Post by **table42** » Tue May 31, 2016 6:17 pm

Yep, gotta include the Germans too. My senior year I lived in Frankenmuth, Michigan. An industrious people, but dull and way too moral for my taste.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Tue May 31, 2016 7:12 pm

makes for diverse cuisine anyway

cptrelentless · Post by **cptrelentless** » Tue May 31, 2016 8:44 pm

table42 wrote:Yep, gotta include the Germans too. My senior year I lived in Frankenmuth, Michigan. An industrious people, but dull and way too moral for my taste.

A mate of mine took me out to the German colonies outside of Cedar Rapids in Iowa. More German than the Germans. Pretty good food.

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