Creole - Latin American Creole

In most of Latin America Creole (Spanish, criollo, Portuguese, crioulo) generally refers to people of unmixed Spanish or Portuguese descent born in the New World. In Brazil, though, the word is a pejorative slang for a black individual. Throughout the colonial history of Latin America, the Spanish caste system made distinction between criollos and the higher-ranking and governing peninsulares, despite both being of unmixed Spanish ancestry — the only distinction being that the latter wer ...

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Creole, Creole - Latin American Creole, Creole - Filipino Creoles, Creole - New Orleans and Louisiana/Gulf Coast Creole, Creole - Alaska Creole, Creole - Portuguese Creole, Creole - Caribbean creole

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The term Creole is used with different meanings in different contexts, which can generate confusion. Generally it refers to a people or a culture that is distinctive or local to a region, but with various additional shades of meaning. Creole - Latin American Creole. In most of Latin America Creole (Spanish, criollo, Portuguese, crioulo) generally refers to people of unmixed Spanish or Portuguese descent born in the New World. In Brazil, though, the word is a ...

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• Creole - Latin American Creole
• Creole - Filipino Creoles
• Creole - New Orleans and Louisiana/Gulf Coast Creole
• Creole - Alaska Creole
• Creole - Portuguese Creole
• Creole - Caribbean creole

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In this context the word refers to people of any race or mixture thereof who are descended from settlers in colonial Louisiana before it became part of the USA in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, or to the culture and cuisine typical of these people. Some writers from other parts of the USA have mistakenly assumed the term to refer only to people of mixed racial descent, but this is not the traditional Louisiana usage. In fact some locals, especially those of pure Spanish and French Creole descent, have often argued that the traditional usa ...

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Creole, Creole - Latin American Creole, Creole - Filipino Creoles, Creole - New Orleans and Louisiana/Gulf Coast Creole, Creole - Alaska Creole, Creole - Portuguese Creole, Creole - Caribbean creole

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During the colonial era of the Philippines, the term "Filipino" served the same purpose as the term "Criollo" in Latin America. "Filipino" there implied an unmixed Spaniard born in the Philippines. "Insulares" (i.e. [Spaniards] of the [Philippine] Islands) had a synonymous meaning with "Filipino". Those Spaniards that were born in Europe, as in Latin America, were called "Peninsulares (i.e. [Spaniards] of the [Iberian] Peninsula). The term "Filipino" drastically changed in meaning when during the Philippine Revolution it was taken by ...

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Creole, Creole - Latin American Creole, Creole - Filipino Creoles, Creole - New Orleans and Louisiana/Gulf Coast Creole, Creole - Alaska Creole, Creole - Portuguese Creole, Creole - Caribbean creole

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People of mixed Portuguese and native ancestry that Portuguese had contact since the 15th century, and who spoke a Portuguese Creole language. Mixed Portuguese and African ancestry. Guinea-Bissau Creole (Crioulo) Ziguinchor Creole (Fijus di Terra, Fijus di Fidalgu, Portuguis) Capeverdian Creole (Crioulo) São Tomean Creole (Crioulo, Forro) Mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry. Chinese Creole (Filhos di Macau, Macanese) Malay Creole (Portuguese-Malay, Gente Kristang or Cristão) Indian Creole (Portuguese-Indian) ...

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Creole, Creole - Latin American Creole, Creole - Filipino Creoles, Creole - New Orleans and Louisiana/Gulf Coast Creole, Creole - Alaska Creole, Creole - Portuguese Creole, Creole - Caribbean creole

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