Cajun Créole Culture Research Paper

continue to keep growing through the amount of non local people who share the same Cajun Créole culture that come in from outside areas to attend the festival, the surrounding events and festivals that lead up to the big festival itself, and the show casing of local food, music, and arts and crafts that all come together to celebrate the Cajun Créole culture.
Two busloads of what we would consider “tourists” were dropped off at the festival grounds each day to participate in the festival however this particular time was right around the time the French Mass was beginning on the Sunday of the festival. A news report stated that anywhere from 100,00 to 150,00 visitors came to attend the festival (Wartelle). The city of Lafayette may have been foreign to these particular people but while they were on festival grounds they were in fact not “tourists” because even though they are from a different …show more content…
Anyone’s first thought after seeing the tourists would be that they were of a different culture just coming to attend the festival and this particular event of the festival being the mass to learn more about the Cajun Créole culture. As the mass began the people who were part of the tourist group participated in the mass using the French language. More often than not when someone who is not of Cajun Créole culture eats boudin or spicy Cajun food they have a reaction that is like no other however these “tourist” did not in fact have that reaction. Cajun dancing is an art in itself, while attending the concert of a local band many of those “tourist” jumped right on in to the beat of the music following along nicely. From this it was apparent that these groups of “tourist” were in fact Cajun Créole themselves and were not people of a different culture coming in just as a learning experience. With these outside people coming in to attend the festival