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A Cajun Christmas: Hardship, Merriment, and Ethnic Louisianan Culture |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Peggy Robbins |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,085 Words, 17,881 Characters |
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In the second decade of the twentieth century, a European refugee who had lived among the Cajuns in the bayou country of Lousiana for five years was asked to describe the Cajun people in a few words. He replied, "Religious, peaceful, industrious, resourceful, determined, stubborn, puzzling, and happy--surprisingly, very happy."
Today, the Cajuns can, in general, be described the same way. But they are puzzling only to the people who expect them to be marked by their tragic heritage, to be burdened and bitter with thoughts of the persecution and suffering of their ancestors--the forced exodus from the lands of eastern Canada.
They instead are thankful for all the blessings of their lives; proud of their accomplishments, they take delight in each day and the anticipation of each ...
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...all such cases, the Cajun wife brings her "outsider" husband into her way of life, and their children are raised as Cajuns. When Governor Lawrence called the brave Acadians of Nova Scotia "French vermin" and vowed to destroy them as a people, he reckoned without the truth expressed in an old French couplet: "The Acadian is like the growing willow: The more you cut it, the hardier it blooms."
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