tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363181666346004980.post5363446233937630536..comments2023-07-20T07:39:28.553-04:00Comments on The Kaos Blac Lifestyle: Cape VerdeKaos Blachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16551533488416332950noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363181666346004980.post-15035228316782935262013-01-25T08:30:20.881-05:002013-01-25T08:30:20.881-05:00very interesting post:
I would like to give a dif...very interesting post:<br /><br />I would like to give a different perspective to some points you have spoken about:<br /><br />1) Cape verde is the FIRST creole nation of the world. It is there that the concept of Creole nation and the way of life has been invented/created around 1460.<br />Thus the major contribution of cape verde to the world history is CREOLE GENESIS not slavery.<br /><br />2) You seem to ignore that anyone born in Cape verde was free. The portuguese law did not allow that someone born in its land was a slave. No one ever born in Cape verde had the status of slave or freedman. Only people captured in Africa were slaves and if they had children their children must not be slave because the portuguese law did not allow that.<br /><br />3) A third point is the language, the cape verdean creole. It seems contradictory to me to say that capeverdean creole is a mix of portuguese and african languages and then state that more than 90% of its vocabulary is portuguese. If the capeverdean creole is more than 90% based in portuguese then it is a variation of portuguese languague.<br />The african influence can probably be seen in the phonetics and the pronounciation of the words. But this is an hypothesis that it seems nobody has studied yet.<br /><br />4) the fourth point is a question. How is culture and identity created? Is it by traditions or by organised schooling by the governments? I for myself think it is the governments that choose the direction for what will be the culture and the identity of its teritories because they control the minds through school and media. I believe that governments don't control traditions which are transmitted from parents to child.<br />In the case of cape verde, the culture and identity was framed by the portuguese government, by its schools and its medias untill it became an independent state. Concerning the tradition, I believe that there is a mix between african and portuguese traditions. Probably a stronger African tradition because the child were educated by their african mothers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01874891417422313162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363181666346004980.post-23799358232235232532013-01-25T08:28:44.439-05:002013-01-25T08:28:44.439-05:00very interesting post:
I would like to give a dif...very interesting post:<br /><br />I would like to give a different perspective to some points you have spoken about:<br /><br />1) Cape verde is the FIRST creole nation of the world. It is there that the concept of Creole nation and the way of life has been invented/created around 1460.<br />Thus the major contribution of cape verde to the world history is CREOLE GENESIS not slavery.<br /><br />2) You seem to ignore that anyone born in Cape verde was free. The portuguese law did not allow that someone born in its land was a slave. No one ever born in Cape verde had the status of slave or freedman. Only people captured in Africa were slaves and if they had children their children must not be slave because the portuguese law did not allow that.<br /><br />3) A third point is the language, the cape verdean creole. It seems contradictory to me to say that capeverdean creole is a mix of portuguese and african languages and then state that more than 90% of its vocabulary is portuguese. If the capeverdean creole is more than 90% based in portuguese then it is a variation of portuguese languague.<br />The african influence can probably be seen in the phonetics and the pronounciation of the words. But this is an hypothesis that it seems nobody has studied yet.<br /><br />4) the fourth point is a question. How is culture and identity created? Is it by traditions or by organised schooling by the governments? I for myself think it is the governments that choose the direction for what will be the culture and the identity of its teritories because they control the minds through school and media. I believe that governments don't control traditions which are transmitted from parents to child.<br />In the case of cape verde, the culture and identity was framed by the portuguese government, by its schools and its medias untill it became an independent state. Concerning the tradition, I believe that there is a mix between african and portuguese traditions. Probably a stronger African tradition because the child were educated by their african mothers.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01874891417422313162noreply@blogger.com