Melancon: Nothing to do with me though, lol. I'm 100% white I guarantee you.
I couldn't care less. You really shouldn't assume that these kinds of categorizations matter to other people the way that they do to you.
However, perhaps you should invest in a spit test from 23andme, if you haven't already done so, and provide us with a screen shot. I've been following the postings in the Community Forum there for years, and there's an awful lot of very surprised southerners, including Louisiana Cajuns, who have posted on there about their previously unknown African and Amerindian ancestry. Just saying. There's also no indication in the study that the only people from Louisiana who had Amerindian and African ancestry were "Creoles".
Plus, the whole thrust of your postings about the Finns has not been whether an individual Finn like Kristina has East Asian ancestry, and how much, but that
Finns have East Asian, non-European ancestry. Therefore, the topic is not whether
you individually have escaped having any of the ancestry which you find so objectionable, but whether
Cajuns have such ancestry.
Indeed, some "exotic" ancestry does show up in Cajuns. After whole clusters of "Ashkenazi" type hereditary breast cancer showed up in the Cajun community, they tracked ancestry and found it all led back to an Ashkenazi family who had changed their names, claimed to be German, and had married into the Cajun community. Given the high levels of endogamy, it spread like wildfire. Just google it...you'll find all the papers. Just for health reasons, I'd check to see whether those surnames appear in your family tree, given how the Cajuns are apparently so inbred. The high prevalence of genetic diseases is a consequence of such high levels of inbreeding, as I'm sure you know.
As to Cajuns in general:
"Not all Cajuns descend solely from Acadian exiles who settled in south Louisiana in the 18th century, as many have intermarried with other groups. Their members now include people with ancestry of British, Spanish, German, Italian,
Native American,
Métis and
French Creole settlers. Historian Carl A. Brasseaux asserted that it was this process of intermarriage that created the Cajuns in the first place.
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Non-Acadian French
Creoles in rural areas were absorbed into Cajun communities. Some Cajun parishes, such as
Evangeline and
Avoyelles, possess relatively few inhabitants of Acadian origin. Their populations descend in many cases from settlers who migrated to the region from
Quebec,
Mobile, or directly from
France. Theirs is regarded as the purest dialect of French spoken within Acadiana. Regardless, it is generally acknowledged that Acadian influences have prevailed in most sections of south Louisiana.
Many Cajuns also have ancestors who were not French. Many of the original settlers in French Acadia were
English,
Irish,
German,
Greek,
Spanish Canary Islanders, and
Italian colonists who began to settle in Louisiana before and after the
Louisiana Purchase, particularly on the
German Coast along the
Mississippi River north of
New Orleans. People of
Latin American origin, a number of early
Filipino settlers (notably in
Saint Malo, Louisiana), known as "
Manilamen," from the annual cross-
Pacific Galleon or
Manila Galleon trade with neighboring
Acapulco, Mexico, descendants of
African American slaves, and some
Cuban Americans have also settled along the
Gulf Coast and, in some cases, intermarried into Cajun families.
Anglo-American settlers in the region often were assimilated into Cajun communities, especially those who arrived before the English language became predominant in southern Louisiana."
As you can see, French Creoles are an entity distinct from the Cajuns, but part of the Cajun jambalaya, one might say.
It might be interesting for you to check it all out. You never know what could be hiding in that wood pile.
