12 definitions by Desert flower
Acadian Cajuns are the descendants of a group of French-speaking settlers who migrated from coastal France in the late sixteenth century to establish a French colony called Acadia in the maritime provinces of Canada and part of what is now the state of Maine. Forced out by the British in the mid-sixteenth century, a few settlers remained in Maine, but most resettled in southern Louisiana and are popularly known as Cajuns Studies indicate that between 1654 and 1755, the Acadian population grew from 300-350 colonists to about 12,000-15,000 (despite a 50% child mortality rate). Alot of ethnic diversity existed among the Acadian Cajuns (a few were of melanated american Indian, English, Scottish, Irish, Spanish, Basque, origin).
Today, common understanding holds that Cajuns are Caucasian and Creoles are melanated or multicultural; Creoles are from New Orleans, while Cajuns populate the rural parts of South Louisiana. In fact, the two cultures are far more related—historically, geographically, and genealogically—than most people realize.
Today, common understanding holds that Cajuns are Caucasian and Creoles are melanated or multicultural; Creoles are from New Orleans, while Cajuns populate the rural parts of South Louisiana. In fact, the two cultures are far more related—historically, geographically, and genealogically—than most people realize.
Acadian Cajuns, enslaved american Indians, Houma, Chitimacha, Choctaw, German immigrants, Canadian trappers, French and Spanish settlers—all contributed to a process now known as creolization. Fueled by European colonialism and the American aboriginal slave trade founded by the American colonization society creolization occurred throughout the Latin Caribbean world: different populations, most of them in lands new to them, blended their indigenous cultural practices—culinary,linguistic, musical—to create new cultural forms. Gumbo drew upon West African and American Indian sources (okra and rice from the former; Filé, or crushed Sassafras leaves, from the latter) and French culinary techniques (Roux). Creolized French—Kouri-Vini, also known as Louisiana Creole—was, by the 1800s, in wide practice, including among Acadian descendants. The accordion, a star feature of both Cajun and zydeco music, was brought to the colony by German settlers, and its use was popularized in part by the enslaved people working those plantations.
by Desert flower September 22, 2023
Pro-Melanated is about uplifting and empowering the melanated brown Americans on a spiritual, financial and psychological scale, but some people might disagree with me on that statement and that’s part of the problem.
Melanated people want to do right thing for the melanated American community but they think that if you don’t view pro- melanated mindsets in the exact same monologue they do then all of a sudden you are not “awakened.” I swear it’s like some of them want to make being pro-melanated thinking a damn competition. I’ve had people try to test me with that stuff a few times. If I didn’t know the same Truth as them, all of a sudden I wasn’t “awakened” enough.
by Desert flower July 9, 2023
Melanated hospitals Are numerous hospitals in all 50 states that are owned and operated by melanated brown people who are misnomered as black and are making sure that all brown people in general are getting their voices heard and not ignored with doctors who care about they're patients physical and mental wellness.
Melanated owned hospitals take a different approach unlike other hospitals who put profits over people, melanated owned hospitals are putting people over profits where every life matter's, no life is worth a pricetag, we the people always come first.
by Desert flower June 17, 2023
A woman who takes care of all the cooking, cleaning, and financial responsibility of her bills and half of her husband's bills while raising his kids, getting nothing in return for her sacrifices, working night and day shifts as he comes home doing the bare minimum, expecting his single married wife to be his chef, therapist, maid, and caretaker, catching an attitude when asked to clean up after himself, cook dinner, take out the trash, fix the plumbing, watch the kids, or go grocery shopping, but has the nerve to want sex from his single married wife when he wants it unprotected at that it's better to be single and child free than to deal with an adult male with the mindset of adolescent child that'll never grow up and mature into adulthood, if men have anything it's the audacity to require a traditional women without playing the role of traditional man that provides, protects, respect, emotional intelligence, support, chivalrous, integrity, stability, courtmananship.
A single married wife is a lonely, depressing life to live on a daily basis. I'd rather expand my dating options knowing that a single married wife is more prevalent in certain cultures than others with high levels of misogyny, narcissism, incel behavior, and baby mama culture. I'm choosing myself by broadening my horizons and vetting men from cultures that differ from my own while valuing a woman's worth in countries like Greece, Spain, Albania, Sweden, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Serbia, Palestine, Guatamala, Tunisia, Algeria, Bermuda,the Cayman Islands, the Marshall Islands,the Northern Mariana Islands, Antigua, Samoa, Socotra, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Scotland, Canouan, Seychelles, Mauritius, Martinique, Cajun, Romania, Belarus, Montenegro, Andorra, Austria, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Iceland, Salvador, Hungary, Czech, Jordanian, Finland, Luxembourg, New Caledonia, Monaco, Estonia, Macau, Guernsey, Peru, Montreal.
by Desert flower September 6, 2023
The Manila galleon originally known as La Nao de China,and Galeón de Acapulco, refers to the Spanish trading ships that linked the Spanish Crown's Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, with its Asian territories, collectively known as the Spanish East Indies, across the Pacific Ocean. The ships made one or two round-trip voyages per year between the ports of Acapulco and Manila from the late 16th to early 19th century. The name of the galleon changed to reflect from which city the ship sailed,setting sail from Cavite, in Manila Bay, at the end of June or first week of July, starting the return journey (tornaviaje) from Acapulco in March–April of the next calendar year, and returning to Manila in June–July.
The term Manila galleon can also refer to the trade route itself between Acapulco and Manila that was operational from 1565 to 1815
The galleons sailed the Pacific, bringing to the Americas cargoes of Chinese and other Asian luxury goods such as spices and porcelain in exchange for New World silver. In addition, Filipino slaves known as "chinos esclavos" ("Chinese slaves") came across the Pacific to Mexico in what is known as the trans-Pacific slave trade. The route also fostered cultural exchanges that shaped the identities and the culture of the countries involved
The term Manila galleon can also refer to the trade route itself between Acapulco and Manila that was operational from 1565 to 1815
The galleons sailed the Pacific, bringing to the Americas cargoes of Chinese and other Asian luxury goods such as spices and porcelain in exchange for New World silver. In addition, Filipino slaves known as "chinos esclavos" ("Chinese slaves") came across the Pacific to Mexico in what is known as the trans-Pacific slave trade. The route also fostered cultural exchanges that shaped the identities and the culture of the countries involved
The Manila galleon were known in New Spain as La Nao de China ("The China Ship") on their voyages from the Spanish East Indies because they carried mostly Chinese goods shipped from Manila.67 The Manila Galleon route was the first instance of globalization, as it marked the earliest period in history when a trade route from Asia crossed to the Americas, thereby connecting all the world's continents in one global silver trade.
In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves, they become Five dollar indians.
In time, chinos in Mexico came to be treated under the law as Indians, becoming indigenous vassals of the Spanish crown after 1672. The implications of this legal change were enormous: as Indians, rather than chinos, they could no longer be held as slaves, they become Five dollar indians.
by Desert flower September 26, 2023