Cape Verdean Creole

It was a big “Forget you, I have learned a new language, a superior language.” It was almost as if I was ashamed to speak my language because everything was lined up to speak Creole the setting, the people, the respect aspect of the situation and I still chose to speak English. I of course had an alternative motive for speaking English than my mother had thought, but that is what it sounded like to my mother. Growing up under her wing I knew the last thing she would ever let happen was let me or anyone else in the family forget about our Cape Verdean roots. To her, picking English over Creole in an instance where I did not have to speak English was a sign of a threat to our culture. Reading Anzaldua 's words everything clicked. To purposely and willing change or be expected to change one 's way of speaking to accommodate to a scenario or to an audience where the favor is virtually never reciprocated, makes things appear although one language is superior to the other. As a bilingual or multicultural citizen the last thing one would want to do is undermine something that is a part of someone else’s life. It is like telling…

Cape Verde is an islandic country located on the west coast of Africa. The Cape Verdean culture is a unique mixture of European and African elements, as it was colonized by Portugal until 1975. National identity is rather fragmented, mainly because of the geographical division of the islands. The northern tend to identify more with the Portuguese colonizers, whereas the southern have a closer cultural affinity with Africa. This can be seen in the different dialect of Creole spoken in the North,…

women. Mentioned by Chopin early in the book, Edna was a Kentucky-born Presbyterian who married into the glamorous world of the wealthy Creole culture. This puts her at a disadvantage, as she never truly feels “at home” within the Creole society; she is simply included due to her marriage with Leonce, a well-to-do Creole. By marrying Leonce, she sacrifices her old lifestyle in Kentucky, to assimilate to the new expectations she has in New Orleans. As a wife, Edna does not have the opportunity…

Merriam Webster defines an individual who is “creole” as “a person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America.” (“Creole”) With this definition, almost every individual is or knows someone who would be considered creole. Over four hundred years ago, thousands upon thousands of Africans were resentfully transported to the distorted new world with the intention to be bargained for. Even though they were stripped from every physical attribute that they called their…

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by Josh Carlin is an extraordinary read about a nation that no one ever thought would come together as one. As a politician of South Africa and eventually the president, Nelson Mandela, always seemed to know how to win others over. Not only would he win them over, he would develop a connection through his words that made the people feel adoring to his nature. The drive and motivation combined with the smooth talker he was led him…

Literature review Nelson Mandela was a South African leader. He succeeded to end apartheid and with the African National Congress (ANC), he was the first one who won the presidential election with black-African origin. Thus, Mandela received the Nobel Prize for Peace (Britannica, 2016). 27 years as a strong-willed prisoner (Shriberg and Shriberg, 2011, p. ) improved his personal development of forgiveness for his rivals, formed his strength and established supplementary leadership skills like…

landowners who needed protection from the Indian and French, and Eastern class merchants who had more liberal views and wanted growth of the colony to continue. This political party would accordingly become the patriots fighting for freedom. Geography The soil of Massachusetts is very thin and rocky, the area is only about 190 miles from East to West and 110 from North to South, and a 192-mile coastline, made up mostly of bays, hence the name the Bay State. Rolling plains and small streams…

Screech! The wheels of the plane finally touched down at Logan airport in Boston after an eight hour flight. After we got off the plane, we still had an hour-and-a-half drive ahead of us. Great. But I knew that it was worth it because we were going to Cape Cod to visit my Grandparents. Cape Cod has beautiful beaches and beautiful weather. The beaches have the silkiest sand, and the bluest skies. Regular visitors and locals refer to Cape Cod as, simply, The Cape. For all of the years…

The Cruelty of Society Towards Women in The Grandissimes Ashley Renshaw says, “Always stand for what you believe in because it might just be the change the world needs.” Like Renshaw, Aurora and Clotilde go to extreme measures to stand firm in what they believe in while encountering many obstacles along the way. In George Washington Cable’s book, The Grandissimes, Cable shows his readers the harshness society presses upon Creole women during the nineteenth century. Cable’s depiction of the…

Caribbean. Because of this, it can be inferred that she is a spy from the U.S. even though she may not know it. Her observations are about what life is like for the Creoles, and non-Creoles, the positions of women in society, and what life was like in the urban areas and in the rural areas. The Creole’s life in St. Domingue before the revolution was good for some of the Creoles. Hassel comments on “One of them, whose annual income before the revolution was fifty thousand dollars … now lives…