Descendants of French settlers expelled by the British from Canada in the eighteenth century these Acadians have developed a distinctive Creole society under subsequent regimes in southern Lousiana. Cajuns are especially characterized by close family and community ties, Catholicism, their French dialect and rural livelihoods along rivers and bayous that have fostered geographical isolation. While sometimes confused with Creoles of white or black French colonial ancestry Cajuns became known in the twentieth century for spicy food (Paul Prudhomme, Emeril Lagosse), lively music with accordions, strings and vocals (Neville Brothers, Buckwheat Zydeco) and vivid media images as epitomized in films like The Big Easy (1986). This reviving cultural distinctiveness, nonetheless, has come under assault through the extension of education, media and government into the bayous.