Creole Explained

In this episode I discuss a lot!

1. ​ Minority Caribbean countries culturally get absorbed by larger Caribbean countries. Especially in the case of 1st gen Americans from these smaller countries. Many of these individuals might feel they are connected to their parents’ homeland, but they really aren’t as much as they think

1. ​ Haitian suffering is part of the Haitian identity , a part that an American born of Haitian descent just will never understand

1. ​ Schools are extremely important parts of socialization and identify development. So, even if you’re raising kids in your culture, if their school culture is incongruent, they are far more likely to be culturally more similar to their school culture / peers.

1. ​ Many American cities do not have a melting pot of Caribbean culture. It’s often one sided. Hence why many Caribbean Americans will know more about whatever country is dominant rather than their own ethnic cultural heritage.

Hey guys. I never imagined that I would get burned out to the point where I’d stop recording for… 8 months almost.

But here we are.

I talk about some personal things as well as give a preview of some topics to come

I made this Audio for my friends, but it got somewhat informative, so I decided to share it here.

If you didn’t know, another complex layer of my identify is I was born & raised in Little Guyana, a Guyanese enclave of NYC, which has the largest indo caribbean diaspora in the United States.

I hope to EXPAND on this topic. This is just very informal basics.

🚨 Please excuse my language & any unserious comments. This episode is not made to offend 🚨

Please see : The Cutlass Magazine for more information on this subject in the meantime.

Here I explore and comment on the shared language erosion phenomenon.

The children of immigrants often acquire English quickly, even if they themselves immigrant as young children. As they increase fluency in English, SOMETIMES this coincides with a decrease in home language fluency. While this is often unintentional, some of these children do in fact embrace English and other west languages in order to solidify their assimilation into western, or even in extreme cases, white society.

Please listen to the episode for sources and contact me directly for DOI of the papers referenced in this episode.

Lightly edited, casually discussion. Here I talk explain the benefits of looking outward in your family tree. I used my 1C3R & 2C3R to help me confirm some genealogical theories. Although these individuals might seem Distant, they might offer insight into close people in your direct ancestral line.

Here I present the phenomenon of mystery children and how direct-consumer ancestral dna test have been linking people to families in ways never seen prior

Here I discuss the controversy of placing Acadian and Quebec as ethnicities, as this population is largely white settlers. This directly erased the ingenious people who inhabit, and have for thousands of years inhabited, these regions

In this episode, I discuss some comments I’ve heard on gg TikTok. I explain the difference between GG English and Gullah. I also explain whether GG are a subset of Black Americans or a separate ethnic group

In this episode, I first discuss my absence (sorry guys .

Then,

I discuss two phenomena

1. People who speak both English Creole & French Creole

2. People who speak 2+ French Creoles

Here I talk about how I connected with Catholic archives to find the marriage record of my 3rd great grandfather, which I’ve been looking for …. For years.

This lead me to find my 3rd ggf’s baptism, which confirmed he was born into slavery