a World wide resurgence of Creolism Natalie Savy

 

This article says that Creolism is being threatened to a slow death in the Seychelles hence the need for the Creole week ? It is a fact that Creolism should not see modernism as a threat but rather embrace modernity so as not to be seen as dead culture.

These are the sort of topics we will reflect on in Vegas next year as I opine that Creole culture is dynamic in view of its permissiveness and changing role in context. It is viewed differently in the USA where there is a resurgence of Creolism and in Australia modernism or the occidental culture is not "killing" the Creole culture at all.

In Canada the Creole diasporas are coming up better than ever and are very dynamic with their regular Fetes Creoles, pena passe par 4 chemin Creole is the word.. The third generation in Australia is showing very positive signs by coming more and more to their roots.

Some may still have a complex with the language but this can be explained as the Mauritian Creole, for many Mauritians, has not yet reached the status of a language whereas it is a language it is onw rights and official in the Seychelles, in Reunion, Haiti, and in the Carribenas and more and more books and literature in Creole are being published.

The mentality and approch to Creole language has dramaitically changed in Mauritius through political will and with no fear of oriental backlash, Creole will be introduced as a subject in schools pena bare...

How far the threat is really serious in the Seychelles I wonder as it has often been called the craddle of creolism.I am not totally agreable with the interviewee as an expert he is rather pesismistic and should explore more the notion of culture in its antropological context and especially in the context of Seychelles.

A culture cannot just die because of invasion of occidentalism or globalisation, it takes time and it can react and fight back depending on prevailing circumstances and how cultured is the population.

We all know the economic problems facing the Seychelles, their greed to consume, their gredd for more information and travel, the more there is a shortage of currency, the more they want to import and travel...Seychelles has lately been confronted with a wave of information and fashion form the west but from what I saw Seychellois can eat kenturky of macdonald once but still prefers his poisson grille and rice, which are now in takeaway at Pirate Arms.

We know the cultural invasion that the west tend to impose on small nation state like Seychelles or Mauritius against ecomonic aid or trade.They done it with Australia and doing in ot the Me and everywhere...they can't stop and still more if george Bush is returned as this is his Grand startegy "to rule the world pas de pitie pu;avoor les canards boiteux!!!" It could be that it is being overtaken by the new emerging Rodrigues who is getting more and more support from the Creole businesspeople and creole community of Mauritius.

A new nation in the making watch out....but Creolism is more and more taking an international dimention to the extent that emminent lecturere and authors like Pf rapahel Confiant an Jean Bernabe are now takin Creeolism to a new dimention that of a civilisation.

For more information about creolism or the Creole culture visits our site at www.users.bigpond.com/l_arom/ and listen to the Creole radion on thursday night.
Yours in Creolism

GDL.