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New Orleans has been called a great many things in tribute to its distinctive culture: The Paris of the Americas, America's International City, the Gateway to the Americas, The City that Care Forgot, The Crescent City, and by natives, simply The Big Easy.
Napoleon called it "Isle d'Orleans," the only independent island state in America. Its attitude and language were rooted in French, spiced by the Spanish, influenced greatly by African-Americans (many of them free people of color) and embellished by large immigrant waves of Irish, Germans and Italians. Thus, despite frequent misrepresentations by movie-makers, the local people do not speak with Southern accents. They speak a fairly representative English, with the exception of certain waterfront neighborhoods where something that sounds very much Brooklynese can be heard. Because of the rich ethnic mix, certain local peculiarities of speech, and idioms, are important.
These days the lower-case adjective "creole" describes virtually anything indigenous to this region, be it a tomato or a house. As a noun with a capital "C", a Creole is a person, and therein hangs a tale. By some definitions, virtually everyone in New Orleans seems to be a Creole. By others, there's hardly anyone who measures up. Strictly speaking, a New Orleans Creole is a descendant of an early French or Spanish settler, "born in the colony," not in Europe. According to most dictionaries, Creole comes from the same Latin root as the word "create," with the French creating their "Creole" from the Spanish "criollo." Over time, this went from denoting a person born of Spanish parents overseas to a person born similarly of French parents. A child of the colonies, in either case. Yet Creole can also mean a mix of African-American and white parentage, or even undiluted African-American. The Cajuns of South Louisiana are descendants of French colonists who, more than 350 years ago, settled in what are now the Canadian maritime provinces of Nova Scotia ...
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