Cajun and Zydeco ethnic groups share a long, complicated history. These two groups share the same language and faced the same hardships, but come from entirely different racial and cultural backgrounds. Although the relationship between the two remains complicated even to this day, they both worked hard in the fields, faced discrimination because of their ethnicity and cultural background, and even exchanged culinary as well as music traditions with each other. The influence that these ethnic groups have on each other has made Cajan and Zydeco music and culture what it is today. The Cajun ethnic group comes from a community of French refugees whose homeland was in Acadia, located off the eastern coast of Canada in what is now Nova Scotia. Due