Re: The OIT state of the art

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>
> Not to reopen pastdebates over the proper definition of "creole" in a
> linguistic sense, but creole can also have ambiguous meanings in a
> sociological sense. In some contexts it meant "a person of European
> ancestry born in the colonies."
>
> Was Gobineau's grandmother actually of African or mixed ancestry, or
> simply the daughter of a French colonist?
>
> Ned Smith
>
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I have never seen this meaning of Creole : "a person of European ancestry
born in the colonies."
The word "petit blanc" (small white) better suits that meaning.

I'm not definitive but I'm ready to believe Gobineau's grand-mother was
black.

I think it hard to imagine somebody with clear European pedigree claim
Creole ancestors.
It's like being black and claiming Viking Pedigree !?

Arnaud