can anyone here define waht it means to be cape verdean or kriolu?

YOU KNOW YOU ARE CAPE VERDEAN WHEN.....

1. You get excited when you see Cabo Verde on the weather channel

2. Calling cards become a major topic in your family

3. You called every Cape Verdean you know because Cesaria Evora was on the Late Show with David Letterman a few years ago

4. While in college you were in or started Cape Verdean Student Association

5. You could not talk when Cabo Video was on

6. You have more than one name

7. If your last name ends with an S non Cape Verdeans pronounce it with a Z

8. Everyone asks you what nationality you are

9. Your mother's favorite saying is "Mai e grande"

10. One of your parents lived or moved to Cabo Verde

11. The first thing you do when you move to a new state you look for a Cape Verdean

12. You try to think of a new project to do so the world can discover Cabo Verde
13. Your parents always try to figure out if your Cape Verdean friends are related to you

14. You parents will not let you drive their car unless you are driving them around

15. You can name the countries Cape Verdeans live in

16. You have created or been on a Cape Verdean website

17. Your non Cape Verdeans friends have eaten Cachupa

18. At least one of your college papers had to do with Cabo Verde

19. Everyone at your work knows what country your from

20. You have a rosary in your car

21. You say "Deus ba cu bo" on a daily basis

22. You have a least one saint in your house

23. Your mother uses a broken cup to scoop up uncooked rice.

24. Every dessert you eat begins with Doce (e.g. doce de leite, doce de coco, doce de papaya).

25. There is more than 1 kitchen in your household.

26. You live in the city and theres a Farm in your back yard.

27. Your nick name is harder to pronounce than your actual name.

28. Everywhere you go, your topic or discussion is always on Cape Verde or Cape Verdeans.

29. You get excited over someone's last name on TV because you think they are Cape Verdeans

30. You have "Conta di odju" on your bracelet or necklace

31. You have a living room or dining room that you cannot sit in

32. Your niece or nephew is older than you

33. Your grandparents still lives at home with your parents

maybe i should have asked you how your family behaves. it seems your attempt at being funny might be sarcastically true of those under your roof

Hey unknown, I believe you're scared to death of telling us who you are, ahh!

Why don't you let anyone be creolu the way they are?

If you're not happy with how sonia is capeverdean, why don't you tell us how YOU are capeverdian?

How about not telling you who I am? How does it feel?

Ja ki tudo alguen e "anonimo" xan ca straga tradison!!!
Ma nhos flan un cuza nha guenti, es inglesada tudo li e pa cuze? Sera ki e pa mostra nivel di Ingles (basofaria), ou pa sucundi nivel di Portudgues ku kriolu (complexo). Nhos flan pamo mi n ta papia Japones (doso) assi n ta pratica tambe!!!
ANONIMO

E pra ja what you need to understand e que somos um povo extremamente melange, metisse avec des peuples venant des quatre coins du globe, therefore we are what we are and this whole discussion is totally pueril, como se nao tivessemos cosas mas importantes para hacer que de hablar de color de la piel (como ninos).

Meu God, what a perda de temps, venir aqui (Sogyantai) to talk bizarreries dessas quand le country tem falta of us para coisas mejores!!!
Ah
Anonimo

Being Capeverdean is: belonging to the nation of Cape Verde.
Being Kriolu is: belonging to creole culture, wheter it be from CV, Haiti, Bahamas, etc...
Frutuoso

Pa anonimo que sta xinte incomodado cu discusson na Ingles, e bom lembral ma objectivo di es forum e xprime cuse qui bu ta xinte, pensa, o sabe, e depos confiri cu otus participantis.

Si alguem tem um problema, um assunto, um queson qui e ta xinte midjor sprimil na lingua Ingles pamodi e ta xinte mas a vontadi cu quel lingua, sta tudo ok.

Si bu ta xinti midjor splica na creolo caboverdiano e calro qui bo e benvindo sem pensa ma bu creolo e menos importante. Si bu ta xinte midjor na Frances o holandes, fica a vontadi.

Mante um cusa claro cu bo: na qualquer di ques lingua li que bu screve bu tem caboverdianos pa bu comunica cu el. Nos lingua central e creolo caboverdiano mas nos objectivo e "comunica". E ca dimas tem mas que um lingua di comunicacao. Pelo contrario e motivo di orgulho sabi ma bu conterraneo ta podi fala na varios linguas. Ca bu squece ma riqueza di Cabo verde e sis homis cu mudjeres, isto e, diversidade, capacidadis di ses fidjos, e ta inlui lingua tambe, ok?

A proposito, ser caboverdiano e xinte gana di cume catchupa.

Cabrala

for those who want to question who i am. i live in brockton, if you ever want to sit down and meet me, maybe we can have catchupa, manchupa, xeren, djagacida, cuscus cu leti (i actually have a bottle of mel from cabo verde), by all means contact me at

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to me being cape verdean means being a man. i am a man first and foremost. like the lottery i could have been born anywhere on earth, but my placce was cabo verde. an arid, somewhat backwater country by those who do not know it. I left cabo verde almost 20 years ago. what keeps me happy are the memories that i have for the islands. nha paixon e morabeza di sol e briza di mal cu kel cheru di salinas na maio. kel sinbron, recois, pastel, faroba, avelude-------cuzas di crianca, kuzas kin ta lembra modi kin staba la. kel praca sen flor, se flor era nha spirito.
ser kriolu is like having a spirit. being cape verdean means being having a family. we all shared misery, famine..................for some like myself, i remember when while taking a shower, the water would go, i remember while watching the black and white tv, the electricity would go out. I remember having to turn the old antenas to get a reception. at times it would be some show from senegal. watching cartoons in french was not my cup of tea.

being cape verdean means sitting on the roof looking at STRELAS TA CAI. being cape verdean means conta storia di nho lobu di noti.
being cape verdean means getting "BABOZA and acting like we had swords"

being cape verdean means getting old toilet seat covers and using it to slide down mountain sides (i have a scar or two here and there)
being cape verdean meas having rock fights, slingshot tournaments

this is what i remember of cape verde, i do remember when Stadio Da Varzia. I was born in Santiago, but raised in Maio for a few years. this is who i am.

Being cape verdean means having memories of my mother

Quote: "to me being cape verdean means being a man."

what about being a woman? Isn't that being Cape Verdean too?

i am a man, i was describing what it means to me, dont be an A@@

Vagabundo definitely needs psicological help. He's too angry and don't know how to properly handle opposing ideas. Jesus, I would feel scary in being in a debate in a same room with him.

Vagabundo, do you think your angry way to answer to people that have ideas different than you is caused by your military experience in going around the world like you said about Middle East and "blowing some heads"?

A friendly advice, talk to a psicologist. Maybe Cabrala can be of some help for you. I think he's about to finish his degree is psicology.

Let's help our brother because he's a smart guy but very mad and angry at the world.

Peace!

i see you have no sense of homor. dont be so uptight regarding the use of colorfull language. i could have said donkey but the word A@@ made for a much more colorfull response. as far as mad at the world or being afraid to be in the same room. there are individuals in this forum that actually had the pleasure of meeting me. their response if asked would be different than what you would expect.

granted since everyone wants to be PC-politacaly correct, i guess i cant say what i want for fear of offending.

lets say, hypothetically speaking, you describe a situation and a scenerario and i disagree with your response, because of that, if it is a personal issue, i cannot offend or clarify what you missed? HELLO

anyways, if any of you are in the boston area or eastern mass, shoot me an email vagabundokriolu @ yahoo .com

i had to do it this way because forum codes automatically delete or covers up certain things

How about a truce? Let's talk like adults do and advance with good and healthy ideas. Deal?

Un povu sen klasi ki ta ta bai nun kau pamodi odiu contra si proximu.