Guadeloupean
- adjective
- /ˌɡwɑːdəˈluːpiən/
- Many Guadeloupean festivals celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the island.
Examples
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Rene Gilles, a Guadeloupean social worker, explicitly connected people's ambiguous and uprooted identity to the process of cultural assimilation.
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It also points out the contradictions of Guadeloupean immigration policy that invited Haitian workers during the labor shortages of the late 1970s and 1980s, but then hounded them out in the tight economy of the 1990s.
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The status of spoken and written Guadeloupean Creole encapsulates the problem.
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In the Guadeloupean imagination, therefore, Haitians threaten what Guadeloupeans hope they have achieved.
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Guadeloupean attitudes towards Haitian healing power exemplify the same interpellation.
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Nonetheless, the details and consequences of their marginalization are not the same in all places, and the stereotyped projections about Vodoun differ significantly in the Guadeloupean and Dominican imagination.
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Furthermore, the same Guadeloupean boss who cheats Haitians on the job or disrespects them in the street will run to a Haitian houngan when biomedical treatments fail.
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In this Guadeloupean context, however, it represents Maryemen (or Madeyemin, Mayeme, "Marie aimee"), a female Indian deity conflated here with the Virgin Mary.
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The Guadeloupean cuisine features traditional dishes like accras and boudin.
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In the Guadeloupean culture, music plays a vital role in community gatherings.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Guadeloupean = Guadeloupe (transparent) = Guadeloupe + an
Formed directly from the place name 'Guadeloupe' plus the productive suffix '-an' indicating relation or origin, which is clear to learners.
Etymology
Guadeloupean comes from the island name Guadeloupe plus the ending -an, like American or Mexican. The island was named after a Spanish place called Guadalupe, so Guadeloupean means 'relating to or from Guadeloupe', for example its people, culture, or products.