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CREOLE (the Fr. See also: born in the West Indies of See also: Spanish parents, as distinguished from immigrants See also: direct from See also: Spain, aboriginals, negroes or mulattos
.
It is now used of the descendants of non-aboriginal races born and settled in the West Indies, in various parts of the See also: American mainland and in See also: Mauritius, See also: Reunion and some other places colonized by Spain, See also: Portugal, See also: France, or (in the See also: case of the West Indies) by See also: England
.
In a similar sense the name is used of animals and See also: plants
.
The use of the word by some writers as necessarily implying a See also: person of mixed See also: blood is totally erroneous; in itself " creole " has no distinction of colour;
a creole may be a person of See also: European, See also: negro, or mixed extraction —or even a See also: horse
.
See also: Local variations occur in the use of the word as applied to See also: people
.
In the West Indies it designates the descendants of any European See also: race; in the See also: United States the French-speaking native portion of the See also: white race in
See also: Louisiana, whether of French or Spanish origin
.
The French Canadians are never termed creoles, nor is the word now used of the See also: South Americans of Spanish or Portuguese descent, but in Mexico whites of pure Spanish ex-See also: traction are still called creoles
.
In all the countries named, when a non-white creole is indicated the word negro is added
.
In Mauritius, Reunion, &c., on the other See also: hand, creole is commonly used to designate the black population, but is also occasionally used of the inhabitants of European descent
.
The difference in type between the white creoles and the European races from whom they have sprung, a difference often considerable, is due principally to changed environment—especially to the tropical or semi-tropical See also: climate of the lands they inhabit
.
The many See also: patois founded on French and Spanish, and used chiefly by creole negroes, are spoken of as creole See also: languages, a See also: term extended by
some writers to include similar dialects spoken in countries where the word creole is rarely used
.
See G
.
W . See also: Cable, The Creoles of Louisiana (1884) ; A
.
Coelho, " Os Dialetos romanicos on neo Latinos na See also: Africa, See also: Asia e See also: America," Bol
.
See also: Soc
.
Geo
.
Lisboa (1884-1886), with bibliography
.
For the Creole French of Haiti see an article by
.
See also: Sir H
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H
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See also: Johnston in The Times, See also: April loth, 1909
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