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ciderjacks · 4 months ago

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also look I get that alastor is really just creole bc vivziepop wanted an excuse to excuse her (sort of iffy) portrayal of voudou, but would it really kill people to do any research on us beyond the barebone “look up basic definitions and call it a day” thing. Especially as an Indigenous Cajun, I’m sick of being erased by not only history, not only the U.S. government, but also by society all together. And I’m sicker of people who aren’t Cajun or Creole contributing to that by attempting to define shit when it’s clear they got no clue what they’re talking about.

the worst thing that came out of the hazbin fandom is everyone attempting to define creole and doing a really bad job

#They’re comfortable speaking over us bc they don’t think we got voices lmao #Also plenty of New Orleans creoles are catholic #Haitian Creole and Louisiana Creole aren’t even the same language for gods sake #They’re two different ethnic groups #Louisiana creoles and cajuns also tend to share a lot of genetic makeup bc we occupied the same place #The “one group is black and one is white” only became a thing post Louisiana purchase bc of racism and classism #Also let’s not even talk about how every definition of Cajun conveniently only talks about the Acadians and not the Mikmaw #Who were also the original Cajuns coming down from Canada #Ughhh #It’s so insulting because of how aggressively the U.S. government attempted to erase all of us

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