Creole

Although she is taught to live by these customs, she personally did not want to live the way that she was taught, rather she wanted to live with more freedom that Creole people had (Chopin 10). Edna was a woman who was taught to live like what is now considered to be a housewife. She was to tend to all the needs around the house, the needs of the kids, and the needs of the husband. In The Awakening, Edna’s husband…

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…

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…

Why Did The Creoles Lead The Fight? The creoles were said to have lead the revolution due to their power difference and how they did not belong with either group of people. The creoles had many reasons to start the revolution for their own causes and the causes of others. They were treated as both Americano and European and were trapped between the middle class and the upper class. The classes made all the difference in the fight for independence. They were in conflicts with people and were…

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…

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 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…

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…

“...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…

tapping of my foot and ending with the opening up of my vocal cords. In fact, it was about my mother and the joy I saw on her face as she listened to traditional Peruvian creole music in a restaurant. On October 31, 2016, the night of Halloween, my little brother was predictably complaining because we were celebrating Peruvian Creole Music Day instead of “trick or treating”. Though I knew he did not feel it as I did at his young age, his complaining reminds me of the internal conflict known to…