A little clarification about the ambitions of the Creole people.

I am reading a book about the culture of the people here in Bluefields, this is one excerpt regarding the ambitions of the Creole people and why they have struggled to succeeded in Bluefields:
Our culture regarding the land is that it is not something you own, rather something that is shared. This is a vision that could serve the whole nation, if only the government did not see our culture as being backward. The government permitted the law of autonomy, but this was only to legally protect them. The government is still taking our land and resources and we don’t even know how to fight back, because we don’t even understand that way of doing things. They also say we are lazy, but the truth is that we are confused. What we used to know is not good anymore, and what we know now condemns us to destructions. We are not lazy but many of us feel worthless. (Taylor, 2005 p. 183)
Talking to many Creole people in Bluefields I can see that this frustration is shared by many. They are very intelligent people, and value the importance of education. However, the Creole people are very culturally different than the Latino people of Nicaragua, many of who have recently moved to Bluefields and started businesses of their own. It is almost as if the people are stuck in the middle of two places. One place is the past that they know here in Bluefields, and they try to hang on to their past traditions, language, and culture, all of which came from English influences. The other is the influence of the Pacific, as they call it, which is the Spanish influenced, Nicaraguan cities of Managua and Granada. The old people live the old ways, and the young people have quickly adapted to the influences of the pacific Nicaraguans. It has made a mix that is very tangled and this has made many of the Creole people feel insignificant.