` Cultural Survival After Forced Displacement: A Comparative Study of Cajun and Armenian Communities Forced displacement is often intended not merely to remove a population from a territory, but to dissolve its cultural continuity. Yet history offers striking examples of communities that survived—and even flourished—after exile, expulsion, or genocide. The Cajun and Armenian peoples represent two such cases. Though separated by geography, time, and the severity of violence inflicted upon them, both communities demonstrate how culture can endure through adaptation, memory, and communal transmission. A comparison of Cajun and Armenian survival reveals that while the mechanisms of preservation differed, the underlying sources of resilience—family, language, religion, food, and art—were remarkably similar.¹ Historical Contexts of Displacement The Cajun people descend from the Acadians, French settlers expelled by British authorities from present-day Atlantic Canada during the Fren...