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re: Hatred for groups not wanting to assimilate
Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:41 pm to lsugorilla
Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:41 pm to lsugorilla
Cajuns were here before there was a USA. GOTCHA request denied
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Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:45 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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the Spanish Colonial Period.
Exactly. There's a long history of Hispanics in Louisiana. Many from before the Revolutionary War.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:46 pm to The Torch
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Cajuns are proud people who wouldn't be caught dead accepting SNAP.
wutPosted on 12/3/25 at 3:49 pm to Harry Boutte
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Exactly. There's a long history of Hispanics in Louisiana. Many from before the Revolutionary War.
St. Malo, in what is now St. Bernard Parish (near Shell Beach), was the first permanent Asian settlement in the United States. The settlement dated back to the mid-1700's and was destroyed by the 1915 Hurricane.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:50 pm to lsugorilla
Why did you create a thread then abandon it?
Oh. Makes sense.
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Location: PNW
Oh. Makes sense.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:56 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Yep, also in Saint Bernard are the Isleños, which wiki says "are an ethnic group living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting in people of primarily Canarian Spanish descent. Most of its members are descendants of settlers from the Canary Islands who settled in Spanish Louisiana during the 18th century, between 1778 and 1783." They mostly settled along Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs (Tierra de Bueyes) in the area they called "San Bernardo del Torno. By the end of the 1780s, the simple name San Bernardo or 'Saint Bernard', the patron saint of Bernardo de Gálvez, was being used for the settlement in documents describing the area."
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Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:58 pm to lsugorilla
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and not assimilate and don’t speak English
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What is your opinion on the push to save the French language in Acadian and efforts to save the Cajun culture?
I’ve never met a Cajun who can’t speak English
You don’t have to let go of all your past culture but you need to assimilate into your new American culture. Cajuns have assimilated fine just like Irish, Italians, etc.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:07 pm to Ace Midnight
On the Perez thing. I knew a whole bunch of them from St Bernard and Plaquemines ( knew the Judge's family). All the old folks all spoke French and would laugh about the Spanish heritage. " Yeah we are French speaking Spaniards living in America" .
Judge Perez I'm told grew up only speaking French. All the Perez's on the St Bernard side all looked like Germans
Judge Perez I'm told grew up only speaking French. All the Perez's on the St Bernard side all looked like Germans
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:10 pm to RogerTheShrubber
please, never come down to the lower 48.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:14 pm to back9Tiger
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please, never come down to the lower 48.
I plan on it as few times as possible.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:15 pm to deltaland
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I’ve never met a Cajun who can’t speak English
That’s because the state beat it/shamed it out of em.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:41 pm to lsugorilla
Shut up ho
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:43 pm to beerJeep
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That’s because the state beat it/shamed it out of em.
Same with the natives.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:45 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Same with the natives.
Lot of French speakers/Frenchification amongst them in Louisiana as well.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:49 pm to lsugorilla
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What is your opinion on the push to save the French language in Acadian and efforts to save the Cajun culture?
My grandmother spoke Cajun and had to learn English to attend school as a child.
Saving the Cajun culture and language can't be compared to the threat our
nation faces today from todays illegal immigrants. Cajuns readily identify as Americans and do not pledge allegiance to another country.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:58 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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That they were here first.
Spanish was in FL, coastal AL, MS, TX, OK, KS, CO, NM , AZ, WY, UT, NV, AZ and CA before USA
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:01 pm to lsugorilla
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Spanish was in FL, coastal AL, MS, TX, OK, KS, CO, NM , AZ, WY, UT, NV, AZ and CA before USA
Of course. Their colonial descendents are all good.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:15 pm to lsugorilla
It doesn’t bother me when someone doesn’t speak English. It’s problematic for them, not me. It doesn’t bother me if they don’t assimilate fully either, as long as they’re not committing crimes. It’s a free country.
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:11 am to lsugorilla
Cajuns were established in Louisiana many many years before Louisiana became a US Territory and then a state. No one is forcing Cajuns who already speak English, and observe American traditions to abandon them.
Not the flex you think it is. Post better
Not the flex you think it is. Post better
Posted on 12/4/25 at 9:18 am to Pettifogger
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What's my opinion on the efforts to save a distinctly American subculture?
Exactly. It’s a subculture, not a competing culture. It’s like asking us how we feel about groups wanting to preserve Square Dancing. Who cares?
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