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When my mother was visiting, I forget what exactly we were doing, but she said something that was base and anti-Latino. When doesn't she say something that's anti-Latino. I have this need to understand where this comes from and if it really is all about visas and the struggle of immigrants from the Caribbean and perhaps a need that other immigrants also struggle and don't have it somehow 'easier'.
I don't know.
Anyway, somehow we were talking about my relatives in the Caribbean and my mother began insisting that patois, the second language of the country of my birth, was in fact creole - which is a mixture of French and some African terms.
And I was looking at my mother like she was crazy, because the whole point of why someone from the hills where my family is from can't instantly start up a conversation with someone who speaks creole from Haiti, is because the languages are not the same/ or if they originally were they have shifted.
If I'm wrong, though, someone please tell me. Never mind I looked it up. And my mother may have been speaking in broader terms of 'french creole languages'. Though I doubt it. And my folk speak Antilles Creole, which is related to Haitian Creole but is not it. And it's Haitian Creole that has the Spanish influences. I knew one of them had Spanish and Portuguese.
Anyway, my mother's insistence included her telling me there there was no Spanish at my roots. It swung right into her saying 'And stop thinking you're cocoa panyol. You're not.'
And I just looked at her.
( This gets long )
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