Cape Verdean Creole

Yarmouth, a town in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a great place to go on vacation and spend time with family. Only about 2 hours from Boston, it is located just 26 miles from the Bourne Bridge and 22 miles from the Sagamore Bridge. A day at the beach is a must when visiting the Yarmouth area, and there are several beaches to consider visiting. The most popular beach in Yarmouth, Seagull Beach, is also the largest. It is a very clean and beautiful family beach. It has a large parking lot, clean…

Language is a Form of Communication, Nothing More, Nothing Less. “It is necessary to consider the positive social value of all types of language. Speakers of Creole languages should never be perceived as mere casualties of insularity, ignorance, and social isolation. The history of Hawaii Creole English has inspiring accounts of resourcefulness, intellect, and competence that both reflect and sustain local Hawaii culture” (Kanae 58). Movement of the tongue, the flowing of air in and out of…

people all around me chanting in a language I do not understand. Smoke begins to cover the sky. I feel my face becoming hot as if it was being burned. The voices are becoming louder and shockingly, then I notice they are saying phrases in Haitian Creole, my native tongue. “Stay with us,” they would say. I feel as if there is nothing a can do, but at the same time a bright flash is in my face and I can no longer see or hear anything other than a loud ringing in my ear. The light begins to…

Kate Chopin’s short story Désirée’s Baby, published in 1895, the issue of racism is brought up and is shown on full display (katechopin). In this story, a baby named Désirée is adopted by a rich French Creole couple. When Désirée grows up, she gets married and has a child with another rich French Creole man named Armand. The problem starts when people begin to realize that the baby is part black and since Désirée’s parents are unknown; Armand immediately accuses Désirée of being black…

“...You can jump between worlds with the same ease that you slide on your nightgown every evening.” (Hyppolite 102-103) There are many ways for someone to be from two cultures. Your environment and the people you surround yourself with can influence and shape you, and you may learn new things and adopt a different culture over time. After seeing the movie Somewhere Between and reading over the essay “Dyaspora”, we discussed the issues of heritage and culture in class, and it further broadened my…

Haiti is filled with beautiful stores, hotels, provinces, movie theaters and many more. I dislike how people think we speak “Haitian”. For the ones who doesn’t know, our main language is French and Haitian Creole. When people find out we have all these buildings they act shocked and start asking questions. “Where did they find the money? Did they steal it? How could they afford it? I thought Haiti was poor!” That is where they are wrong, the journalist/ reporters…

Arriving on the island was surreal. Seeing the village and the people for the first time was overwhelming. They greeted us with such warmth. The children know no stranger; they immediately ran up to us, took our hands, and started babbling on in Haitian creole (their native language), unaware that we had no idea what they are…

Haiti is a low-income Caribbean country with a population of close to 10.7 million. (Overview of Haiti, 2017) Haitian Creole and French are the official languages. According to research foreign investors have major concerns with market challenges for Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) inflows. They were estimated in 2015 to only have an inflow of 104 million dollars for the…

It is often interesting viewing your world and reality through the eyes of other people, listening as they decipher and make assumptions, none all that accurate, about the facts, while you 're left to live those facts. Americans have a lot of opinions about Haiti and about as many questions too. As soon as people know that I’m Haitian, I get flooded with questions that I highly doubt they want the answers to: “Why is Haiti so poor?” “Do you do voodoo?” “Where does all the relief money go?” “Why…

The Haitian American culture has been a long-surviving and well-adapting culture. Starting with the indigenous people that occupied the island, before Christopher Columbus’ arrival in 1492. Columbus, being a conqueror for Spain, claimed the island of Haiti for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and named it Hispaniola meaning “little Spain”. From thenceforth the indigenous people of the island were killed off during gold conquests and the ruling of the Spanish by forced labor and diseases. With…