Many literary works written in the last century, European and American authors, contain the word "Creole".This leads many to believe that the Creoles are a vanished race of people or unknown people in wider circles.What it is in fact the Creoles?What is the history of their origin?Do the people of their language and their signs, Creole culture?In this article we will try to answer the question: "Creole - who is this?" Let us try to uncover the secrets of this nation.
Who are Creoles?
According to the accepted definition Creoles considered people who were born in a foreign country.In a word, Creole - a foreigner who has improper for the external features of a particular State.In order to be called Creole, a person must be born not in his native country and in foreign lands.By the way, those at the time were considered the descendants of the British and the Portuguese, who arrived among the first on the American continent.In Brazil and Mexico, they are also called chapetonami and gapuchinami.
in Alaska still consider that the Creole - a descendant of Russian settlers and the local population (Aleut, Eskimo or Indian).In Latin America and Africa, among them include the descendants of slaves captured in black, as well as people born of mixed marriages of Africans and Europeans.
Creoles, photos which clearly show their bright appearance, from the South American and African ancestors borrowed thick wavy or even curly hair, brown or yellowish skin tone.It is worth noting that Creole is very beautiful, flexible and mobile.Men are not inferior to them in this.
origin of the word «Creole»
It's time to figure out where they went the word "Creole".This word, according to linguistic expertise, was borrowed from the French, the Spaniards. Criollo originally meant native, Native .How does this definition began to be used in relation to all persons who were born in one of the colonized countries of mixed marriages?After all, it was originally applied only to indigenous peoples.Unfortunately, reliable answer to this question has not yet been found.
Creoles and culture
As such, the Creole culture is not, however, the manner of singing and performance of music from the groups consisting of the Creoles, very distinctive.Motives for the most part is very rhythmic and melodic.Few would want to dance, stroking in the brightly dressed dancers Creole.Musicians Creole teams prefer jazz.Depending on where you live and the origin of these groups are making in their works certain motifs: African, Oriental or Indian.
Creoles often mentioned in literary works, where they are characterized by mostly positive or fairly tricky characters.Often, the protagonists of these works fall in love with the beauties kreolok.But the most famous is the Creole character from the novel by Alexander Urschi Rudazova "Archmage", which, it should be noted, does not really belong to this nation.
Do Creoles your tongue?
Being born in a foreign country, the Creoles easy enough to perceive language.It is worth noting that there is a Creole language that is recognized as a state in Haiti, the Seychelles and Vanuatu.In the third quarter of the XX century linguists were counted about 130 dialects of Creole, 35 of which are formed on the basis of the English language, 20 - on the basis of several African dialects, 30 - on the basis of the French and Portuguese.In addition, there are many dialects using as the basis of Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese and even Russian.This diversity is due to the fact that during the colonization of the representatives of the Creole people began to adapt the European and other languages for easier communication with the colonialists.It is noteworthy that in contrast to many other languages, Creole does not contain articles, does not share the leave of nouns and verbs conjugation.Spelling Creole differs in that there exists a rule to write the word as you hear it.
