What is Creole?

Creoles are descendants of early French, Spanish and Portuguese immigrants born in Latin America, the West Indies and the southern United States. Creole comes from the Portuguese word "crioulo", which means "born in the master's house and made in China". This word has been used since16th century to distinguish European descendants born in New World colonies from European-born residents. Later, the word specifically refers to the descendants of Europeans, whether pure white or mixed-race, to distinguish them from the descendants of Africans and Native Americans. Creole has different meanings in different places. In some Latin American regions, such as Mexico, Creoles refer to native pure Spanish descendants. In the West Indies, it also means the descendants of any European immigrants. In Guyana, it also refers to the descendants of African slaves. In Louisiana, it refers to the descendants of early French-speaking French or Spanish. Less commonly, it also refers to French hybrids who speak Creole. Creoles in the southern United States live in baton rouge (the capital of Louisiana), the area between Los Angeles and the Gulf of Mexico, and some areas in eastern Missouri and northern Alabama. As landlords and slave owners before the American Civil War, they thought that as nobles, they should behave gracefully, solemnly and politely. Although it absorbed the mainstream culture of the United States to a great extent, Creole culture has been preserved in Louisiana's civil law and its Spanish-style buildings, such as Creole-style food cooking such as okra and walnut candy, New Orleans Carnival and so on.