É mais que sabido que um dos grandes atractivos das gentes de Cabo Verde é a sua diversidade. Aqui, estamos perante a variante loura (ou quase loura). Neste caso, porém, eu não lhes chamaria "CV Blondes", como ali está em cima mas sim "CV Montronds"... Não sei porquê, cheira-me que esta pequenada é na maioria constituída por foguinos/foguenses (nunca sei a terminologia adequada aos naturais da ilha do vulcão). Termino com um viva ao Cabo Verde de todas as cores!!!
LONG LIVED UNKNOWN A Mysterious White Race of Peaple ------------ * --------------- That Inhabit African Mountains. Have Kept Aloof From Neigh- boring Tribes 800 Years
That white races of mysterious origin and of an advanced grade of civilization exist in certain of the yet unexplored plateaus of Africa has long been a mater of tradition among all those who have devoted their attention tl the ethnographical and Rider Hagard and other English novelits have foud in reports bearing upon the subject the theme of many of their most popular stories.
But no attention has been drawn as yet to the fact that in the interior of SAN JAGO, the largest of the CAPE VERD islands, which nestle in the Atantic off the most westerly point of northern Africa, there exists a strang people known by the name of the CANTADAS, who for 300 yars past have been absolutely cut off from all intercourse with the outer world, and who are fair haired, light complexioned and BLUE EYED., whereas the remaining popultion of the Cape Verd islands consist of negres and portuguese, who are almost as swarthy and sombre in color as full-bloodded Africans" (continua) In : Los Angeles Herald , August, 1897
Nota: Não traduzi, porque sei que sois poliglotas...
É mais que sabido que um dos grandes atractivos das gentes de Cabo Verde é a sua diversidade. Aqui, estamos perante a variante loura (ou quase loura). Neste caso, porém, eu não lhes chamaria "CV Blondes", como ali está em cima mas sim "CV Montronds"... Não sei porquê, cheira-me que esta pequenada é na maioria constituída por foguinos/foguenses (nunca sei a terminologia adequada aos naturais da ilha do vulcão). Termino com um viva ao Cabo Verde de todas as cores!!!
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LONG LIVED UNKNOWN
ResponderEliminarA Mysterious White Race of Peaple
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That Inhabit African Mountains. Have Kept Aloof From Neigh-
boring Tribes 800 Years
That white races of mysterious origin and of an advanced grade of civilization exist in certain of the yet unexplored plateaus of Africa has long been a mater of tradition among all those who have devoted their attention tl the ethnographical and Rider Hagard and other English novelits have foud in reports bearing upon the subject the theme of many of their most popular stories.
But no attention has been drawn as yet to the fact that in the interior of SAN JAGO, the largest of the CAPE VERD islands, which nestle in the Atantic off the most westerly point of northern Africa, there exists a strang people known by the name of the CANTADAS, who for 300 yars past have been absolutely cut off from all intercourse with the outer world, and who are fair haired, light complexioned and BLUE EYED., whereas the remaining popultion of the Cape Verd islands consist of negres and portuguese, who are almost as swarthy and sombre in color as full-bloodded Africans"
(continua)
In : Los Angeles Herald , August, 1897
Nota: Não traduzi, porque sei que sois poliglotas...
Cabo Verde foi o cadinho um laboratório da diversidade humana.
ResponderEliminarAh, mas há pretinhas cabo-verdianas que nada ficam a dever em beleza a estas lourinhas. Nem pouco mais ou menos.
ResponderEliminarE O AcA JÁ, POR VEZES VÁRIAS, TEVE OPORTUNIDADE DE O CONFIRMAR!
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