Does anyone think there's any hope for Cajun culture and language?
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Before the Europeans arrived in what is now called North America, there were a number of indigenous peoples scattered over the land.  In the last three hundred and fifty years, many have been reduced to less than one hundred who speak their original tongue and some have become extinct, with little or no record.\n\nTo keep a culture alive. Get it recorded. Visit those old Cajuns with a recorder.  Ask questions, get them to tell stories.  Keeps notes on your work.  Who knows, in 1000 years someone will have wish that this was done now.\n\nIf you need help, get help.  The best I can do is prepare my gumbo with sassafras and crawdad.
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Question is, do they have an alternative? And then, will they have another chance?\n\nI think is a second best where the best should be to develop before being swallowed by the CSME. Anyway Trinidad and Jamaica have the advantage of the language against Spanish speaking countries.
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Certainly not !\n\nEvery language has a whole culture backing it up, and the cultural impoverishment involved in forgetting every language but one would be too grave to even consider. Also, artificial simplification of a language would just result in some newspeak worthy of Orwell. \n\nYour proposal is not acceptable and I will resist it with armed force if I must.
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razor, let's hope not. i think Ebonics is the dumbest term for a language i have ever heard of.  its not hard to speak proper English.
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I don't think it's being forced on us, it's just that English is not being emphasized as the unifying factor that an "official" language should be. There's no real encouragement for Latinos to learn English anymore. Everything is readily translated for them. It's all given rise to a kind of entitlement mentality. Time was when many immigrants didn't want their children speaking the parent's language outside the home, if at all. They really had a different idea of what it meant to be an American and everyone was on the same page! Sad how times have changed. What was once a rich melting-pot of cultures has now become more of a stew with ingredients that just don't blend. Unfortunately, we've allowed it to get too far along to turn anything back now. Really sad.
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I think both of them are so far gone now that its hopeless. \n\nTwenty years ago we sacrificed socioeconomic status for race and it didn't work so now we're twenty years behind where we would've been. \n\nAmerica will be a third world country in about ten years because of it. We need to start learning how to speak Chinese now.
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yes i do. i am from Louisiana (40 miles south of new orleans) and i get very offended by the way the portray this state. they always make it look like we live out in the swamps, and all we do is sit on our porch playing cajun music. they always have the accent wrong too, no one can imitate it so they shouldn't even try. i am tired of movies making us look like all we are unintelligent and all we are into is cajun music, wrestling alligators and voodoo. its so not like that at all.
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Iam from the seychelles and to tell you the thruth there's none for our creole on line:( but for other it is available like the mauritians creole,haiti,louisianna....\n\nwell i wish you luck on year search:)
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I won't say it's impossible BUT, there are thousands of languages & dialects which would mean that while you may be intellectualy up to the task, there isn't enough time in one's normal lifetime.\n\nGood Luck!
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I would say probably because of the French influence, and our late relative lack of it.  We are losing much of the arts that the French still hold dear.  After I took French in High School, my English spelling was a bit awry, just as you pointed out.  I do love the flow of the French language, though.\n\nSincerely,\n\nProdigal Son
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I don't see why not.  it's a part of our countrie's heritage and history.
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I think that comment is too harsh.\nI am English living in England and we get inundated with French where I live each summer, it's enough to put you off the French forever.
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Go to yahoo!chat and join the room on cultures&community i hope it will work.
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I'm a native speaker and I'm from Guadeloupe!\nYou said you've lived in French territories, would you tell me, if you've come to the French West Indies, please?
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is there any hope for america????????????
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Ask some questions and I'll see what I can do!\nI speak French and my husband is French.\n(I live in St. Augustine...)
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well French is not my mother tongue and I learned it in my twenties. I feel in English and that is why it means more to me as I can understnd every nuance. I will go so far though to say that sometimes something will be said or sung in French that just touches my soul.