How Miami Basically Turned Into Latin America

How Miami Basically Turned Into Latin America

[@darkozver5801]

Been to Miami recently and the most common sentence I said was: sorry, I don’t speak Spanish

[@theynotcatchingamongus]

Well, you gotta learn Spanish to survive there lmao

[@Hession0Drasha]

Why apologise?

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

@@theynotcatchingamongusis it really that bad there? My grandma lives in north Miami and I’ve never had that problem visiting her. She’s just north of Palm beach and we’ve never had a problem with only being English speakers 🤷‍♂️

[@emptyhad2571]

It’s time to assimilate or get out.

[@axelespinal]

I remember going to Miami from Latin America all excited to be able to use my English skills for once, just to find out that everyone there speaks Spanish with the thickest Cuban / Colombian accent you're going to ever hear.

[@kcchopz]

As a white American born in Miami, i had a decision to make in 2016. I could continue to not speak spanish and eventually resent my city and move, or i could engulf myself in spanish and really learn the language leading me to love my city even more. 7 years later i am fluent and probably speak spanish 35-40% of the time. Although Miami has its flaws like any other city, i will live no where else and my kids will be bilingual from Miami as well.

[@dariusnicolausheinen6732]

That’s just wrong, you got invaded buddy 😂

[@CozySER]

I can't imagine the shame of giving up my native language because my home got taken over by people from foreign lands without a shot even being fired

[@GenericUsername1388]

​@@dariusnicolausheinen6732 Florida was Spanish long before it was Anglo.

[@1601xavi]

​@@dariusnicolausheinen6732Florida was Spanish lol

[@elpibe1924]

@@mrarticle622Florida was Spanish before my friend!

[@agme8045]

In Argentina, everyone who is upper middle class (and higher) has been at least once to Florida. Its very very common here for people to go to Miami, do some shopping and go to the beach, and then go to Orlando to all the theme parks (Disney World, Universal, etc). Sometimes they also go on a cruise too. Some people only go once in their life, but many do it regularly, maybe once every one or two years. Also, a lot of people have bank accounts in the US, usually through Miami, because of how unstable everything is in Argentina. And the most wealthy Argentinians, usually celebrities or business owners, own houses or condos there and live seasonally between Miami and Argentina. The video was spot on, most people choose Miami because number one, they know everyone speaks Spanish and so they feel more comfortable traveling there and being able to communicate themselves flawlessly. And number 2, the weather. The weather in Argentina is shit, and we have terrible beaches. People love the Florida weather. Also, it has become a sort of aspirational thing. All the rich and famous from here love Miami, thus going to Miami makes you cool. That’s more like the nouveau rich tho. There’s a complete different group of wealthy Argentinians who LOVE Europe and they go there all the time.

[@anonymoususer8895]

Argentines can’t come to the US due to being way too poor.

[@hes_alive]

@@anonymoususer8895You’ve clearly never been to Miami, then.

[@kaiserteddie9564]

Thought argies would go to brazil more

[@hes_alive]

@@kaiserteddie9564 Argentina is weird, all of latam is like it to a degree, but culturally there’s a ton of self hatred towards Latin America as a whole by everyone middle class and above.

[@alfrredd]

Yes it's like the closest thing to a capitalist liberal Hispanic nation, most of latin America and Spain are quite leftist social-democratic countries.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

A great example of Miami culture is "¿Qué Pasa, USA?" which was a sitcom produced for PBS by WPBT in Miami from the late 1970s. The sitcom was monumental because not only was it the first sitcom produced for PBS, but it was the country's first bilingual sitcom too (and one of the first bilingual shows in general)! It's about a Cuban family called the Peñas living in Miami's Little Havana facing an identity crisis. On one side, the elders are trying to preserve their Cuban values and traditions, and on the other, the domination and pressure of Anglo-American society. Or conflict within Cuban values itself as there was once an episode about Catholicism versus the Afro-Cuban religion Santería. As I've mentioned, the show was very much bilingual, with Miami accent (or Cubonics) influence. Switching from Spanish at home to English while out and about. The younger family members and their friends speaking English while the elders spoke just Spanish and were reluctant to learn English showed the generational differences of both the show and the struggle of living a Latino lifestyle in the US in general. And a running gag of the show was the younger members butchering their Spanish grammar or vocabulary. The show's mixing of the two languages is reflected in the name of the show. ¿Qué Pasa, USA? is grammatically incorrect in Spanish since USA in Spanish is EE UU or Estados Unidos. But that's how Cubonics became a thing

[@Keyer-bn3dp]

At least those were decent Cubans. And not the trash we have today. 1960s cubans were decent, from then on it’s all trash…Hialeah Ghetto Spanish is spoken in Miami, most can’t even write or read it. Miami ghetto Spanish is the Laughing stock of all Latin America and Spain.

[@Keyer-bn3dp]

Those were decent Cubans from the 1960s and not the trash that comes today that won’t learn a word of English and all they do is talk about trips to communist Cuba in their Hialeah ghetto Spanish, mostly screaming and bad words… shameful!!!

[@mariopayan106]

Ye It may be grammatically incorrect but I do hear for example Mexicans, Argentinians, Chileans and Colombians use “USA” instead of “EUA” very frequently. I think we might got used to the American culture and language and USA is shorter than EEUU who knows?

[@Edward_prada]

dawg i have never heard of that shit and i’m a beaner from miami 😹😹😹

[@IllUMINATED33]

Why don't cuban people go back to cuba and preserve their culture? Why bring your culture to somewhere that already has culture? cubans should just go back to their homelands and fix their country.

[@dhandanakasinu8420]

I guess GTA6 default settings be in Spanish 😂

[@ichbinhier355]

In the trailer the language shown in the news (the joker part) was Spanish!

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@ichbinhier355 That was Montreal. The game is set in Montreal and that’s why there’s Spanish.

[@anonymoususer8895]

Gta6 isn’t set in Montreal. That’s where the Spanish speakers actually are by the way. The Spanish speakers are in Montreal.

[@kyleduynguyen2309]

@@anonymoususer8895 are you talking to yourself? It's like you have two personality🤦‍♂️

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@kyleduynguyen2309 are you talking to yourself? It’s like you have two personalities 🤦‍♂️

[@arftejano2284]

I’m a Russian-Texan who learned Spanish through working in construction and skilled trades, moved to Miami to be the maintenance and renovation director for a real estate company and lo and behold felt right at home surrounded by Russians and Spanish speakers again lol. I feel like a solid 60-70% of clients, tenants, contractors, and employees I work with every day speak either Spanish or Russian

[@anonymoususer8895]

No. You’re a Russian Canadian. And you’re in Canada because you know nothing. And you’re Russian because you’re trolling and that story is made up.

[@michaelderose3551]

Привет😂

[@michaelderose3551]

@@anonymoususer8895 haha

[@nsh1980]

I bet you are in sunny isles. Many less Russians in the rest of south Flo

[@ericktwelve11]

😂😂😂😂 russians with their superficial stories, keep dreaming dawg

[@LXGlobalMedia]

Historical fact: the entire FLORIDA state was a Spanish colony. Saint Augustin, FL is the oldest town in the USA, making SPANISH the FIRST European language spoken in the US.

[@757CitiesReppa]

No it’s not. That Spanish colony was NOT a part OF the U.S.

[@harrisonc985]

Historical Fact: Spain lost and every country they founded is a cleptocratic one party state that is doomed to fail from the start. we might as well make a giant pit along the border.

[@pacevy3798]

let me revise it then, first european language spoken in america@@757CitiesReppa

[@bobby_greene]

​@@757CitiesReppayou mad, bro?

[@757CitiesReppa]

@@bobby_greene you dumb, bro?

[@FumiTheKitten]

It’s not just Miami. It’s all of South Florida.

[@rappcu]

And then you get to Martin county and it’s practically another planet.

[@jarrettcalder757]

If the Golden Girls were a show today it would be there.

[@pilinfafa]

Fummythekitchen...Nope ‼️ must do more research...😊😮😂❤ at least Google it. Ta.Ta.

[@rionorman6775]

​@rappcu what's in Martin County?

[@Ibelikemj]

Broward is mostly English

[@Dhi_Bee]

Watching this while living in the Miami area all my life & you did a good job explaining our demographics & history. But you should also do one of the entire South Florida area: Broward County/Ft. Lauderdale area & their mostly Caribbean culture (Jamaica, Haiti, etc.) & large Brazilian communities, as well as Palm Beach County & its large Jewish & Central American population (especially Guatemala).

[@Dhi_Bee]

@@saltamonte305 don’t be a hater, bro. If you’re gonna hate on another Florida region north Florida & the Panhandle are better targets. Broward & Palm Beach are like Miami-Dade’s siblings. And Monroe County/The Keys is like the cool older cousin

[@dannyrosabal719]

Monroe County too. It's full of Latin life style and with the Cuban hats, cigars, boat life and all that. The only thing that reminds me of mexico are the wild roosters 🐓

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@dannyrosabal719 Nope. That’s Canada, London, Ontario specifically.

[@dannyrosabal719]

@@anonymoususer8895 ?

[@dannyrosabal719]

@anonymoususer8895 have you been to key west? If not then go when you can and you'll see what I mean

[@davidbowie5023]

No wonder why 2024 Copa America final is to be held in Miami.

[@daxtynminn3415]

no wonder why gta 6 is going to be in miami.

[@davidbowie5023]

@@daxtynminn3415 Hah! Nice pun.

[@dabb8145]

And most important, Messi is there

[@davidbowie5023]

@UnitTrace Would say everyone has a short of, addiction, to Florida.

[@Christians9955]

Hence why Messi wanted to play there because of Latin America culture where he has been in Europe for so many years.

[@ddwkc]

Lot of Brazilian elites have residence in Miami. Even thou it is mostly Hispanic, Brazilians feel at home there as well!

[@NeoLuixhorror]

​​I know, it's complicated, but Americans also have "invaded" latín American towns and cities, as Acapulco or Punta Cana. Neighborhoods in the centers of our main cities, forcing gentrification and making people who was born in those areas to move. I'm not saying that is good or even that is bad. It's happening in both sides, for different reasons, but is happening...at the end is normal to happen, I accept American living in my country, cabarete for example, a town in the beach in the north part of DR is full of immigrants from the us and Europe, for me is not a problem if they respect the locals and pay their taxes. I'm not trying to convince you that you should be happy with the Florida situation, but to see the whole picture. Illegal immigrants should be ​deported, of course, but once you are legal you are protected by the law, winning rights and also acquiring responsibilities. Not only the US is made by immigrants, also the whole Latin America continent, so, since our foundation this is happening.@@MA-cs2ty

[@Venezolano410]

​​@@MA-cs2ty That's too bad. You're going to have to assimilate and learn to speak Spanish, or Portuguese if you're going to do business with Brazilians.

[@carlosmante]

Brazil is a "Hispanic" nation too.

[@Venezolano410]

@@carlosmante Brazil isn't a Hispanic nation. Hispanic nations are those founded by Spain. Brazil was founded by the Portuguese.

[@Venezolano410]

@@carlosmante Let me guess, judging by your statement that Brazil is "Hispanic", I guess it's safe to say that you're an American who doesn't know much.

[@omcara1]

Even African Americans and Haitians speak some Spanish in Miami. We all just groove with each other down here. 😄

[@talonaviation3919]

thats why I love my hometown, everyone is chill with each other!

[@fakeyoutuber5124]

Eww

[@yusefnegao]

Some Haitians already speak Spanish

[@zachariascain6181]

​@@fakeyoutuber5124womp womp.

[@leonardodtc4847]

🤮

[@arislopes1924]

Growing up in Miami I had a classmate from literally every single country & Latin America & most of the Caribbean as well. The school papers & letters for home in Mdpcs were written in 4 different languages that just shows the diversity of the population of Dade county & it’s students

[@SuperRip7]

Spanish is the primary language in Miami.

[@AntonioMalVeg]

i used to be a mdpcs student and it was horrible lol

[@val-schaeffer1117]

How is it diverse if it is overwhelmingly Latin American? Would you call 30% Croatian, 40% Servian, 30% Slovenian population as diverse?

[@anonymoususer8895]

You grew up in Canada silly. Montreal to be specific. You’re confusing Canada with the US.

[@anonymoususer8895]

And in Canada that’s where their Latinos and Caribbean folk are, only in Canada. Not the US.

[@dunnowy123]

People don't realize how important Miami is as a cultural, economic, and political hub for Latin America-US relations. Its known as the "capital of Latin America" lmao

[@anonymoususer8895]

No it isn’t. Montreal is known as the capital of Latin America. Miami speaks English.

[@dancalvano8702]

@@anonymoususer8895Montreal are French Canadians! Dude put the pipe down

[@DefensisIndus]

​@@dancalvano8702 I think he is mad about something because he keeps writing that 😯

[@sheriff1178]

Miami should be populated with anglosaxons again

[@sporeranier]

Technically French is a Latin Language and culture.

[@JohnWick-ls7yt]

Born and grew up in India, been living in Miami now. Colada and Cortadito have replaced my chai 😂 Empanadas and Arrepas are my new Theplas and Khakharas 😂 One thing I can say for sure is, Hispanics and Latinos are gem of people. Sometimes they may sound little rude in the initial conversation but they have a 24k gold heart

[@relaxedleisure4766]

I’ve been wondering for some time as to why southern Indians aren’t moving to coastal FL, the beaches, and weather are much more similar than Kerala/TN and CA.

[@JohnWick-ls7yt]

@@relaxedleisure4766 I am not sure about South Indians, I am from Gujarat which is in the western India.

[@relaxedleisure4766]

@@JohnWick-ls7yt I didn’t say that you were from south India, I just stated that south India and coastal FL look similar. Does coastal Gujarat look similar as well?

[@JohnWick-ls7yt]

@@relaxedleisure4766 Costal Gujarat weather is pretty dry compared to Southern India

[@JohnWick-ls7yt]

People and food and cultures are vastly different too

[@Okkeeey]

I am a 22 year old Italian and I have been living in Miami for 2 years. I can speak both English and Spanish quite well but 70% of the conversations I have with people I don't know are in Spanish.

[@fredrce]

Kinda sucks Mexicans can't go to Florida anymore whereas italians can lol

[@NoctLightCloud]

​@@fredrcewhy can't Mexicans go?

[@cricio9139]

@@fredrce italy literally has the strongest passoport in the world

[@jamievarbondg]

It does not​@@cricio9139

[@Slo-ryde]

@@cricio9139huh?. Italy uses the Eu passport like all in that group!

[@ungrateful-66]

I’m a Coral Gables native of French Canadian descent and I can’t imagine not speaking Spanish in South Florida. Also, compared to French, Spanish is SO easy to learn.

[@naxmax5634]

You’re a Snowbird ? 😂

[@allydr90]

​​@@naxmax5634 they're a native so no. Maybe their parents or grandparents are.

[@anonymoususer8895]

Spanish ain’t spoken in Florida. That’s Canada. And you live in Canada.

[@naxmax5634]

@@allydr90 So he is an ultra Snowbird then 🤣

[@ericktwelve11]

Yeah it's easy, I wanna learn French

[@kuroazrem5376]

This needs Spanish subtitles.

[@googleaccount6931]

En serio 😂😂😂💯

[@equilibriumrebelado4893]

Miami need to understand this video

[@Alex-ce1os]

Hay que poner el español como idioma dominante en usa

[@HoraceNebbercracker]

​@@Alex-ce1os❓

[@marcoschavez1028]

💯💯💯💯🔥

[@vcab6875]

Miami is the Singapore / Hong Kong of LatAm.

[@Mcfunface]

It even has its own cryptocurrency 😅

[@lawden210]

That implies something else

[@vcab6875]

@@lawden210 that America is becoming ROME? No kidding.

[@H8nji]

@@vcab6875 I can tell you’re smarter than the average bear.

[@vcab6875]

@@H8nji obrigado

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I'm glad you mentioned that Cubans arrived in Florida when Cuba was still a Spanish colony, because it is often perceived that all Cubans came to the US after Fidel's revolution when that isn't true as while a lot did come after the revolution, many were already in what's now the US for far longer than that! Tampa and Key West were already Cuban-American centers before the revolution. Key West used to be known as the cigar capital of the world because of the Cuban presence. Devastating fires in Key West in 1886 and 1896 caused many manufacturers to relocate to Tampa. When Cuban national hero José Martí was gathering support for Cuban independence, he visited Tampa and Key West. When there was an assassination attempt in Tampa, he recovered in Paulina Pedroso's boarding house in what's now Parque José Martí...a piece of land that was given to Cuba in 1956. There have even been Cubans in NYC for just as long. NYC is where the current Cuban flag was designed in 1849, and José Martí stayed in NYC when he was in exile. This is why there is a statue of him on horseback in Central Park, which was given to NYC from Cuba. The iconic word "bodega" to mean a corner store actually comes from the Cubans. In Spain, bodega means "wine cellar" but it became the word for corner shop when the word made it to Cuba. In NYC, the first bodegas appear in the 1920s. Then after WWII when Puerto Ricans opened shops in NYC to sell comfort food to Puerto Rican factory workers, Boricuas adopted the word! My mom's side is Cuban, and her parents came to the NYC metro before the revolution because they were working-class people who hated Batista.

[@gnolan4281]

I was wondering if anyone would mention Key West "Cayo Hueso" and Tampa as pre-Castro Cuban cigar industry settlements. But because they don't receive enough injections of new immigrants there are lots of people with Spanish surnames that have no idea how to speak Spanish except maybe a few words. It was too long ago.

[@Lafamiliavera]

The 🇵🇷 flag was also designed in NYC. BTW. I always wondered why 🇵🇷 people in NYC say “bodega” because our word is “colmado” just like 🇩🇴 people, not “bodega”.

[@raksa-s7e]

90% of Cubans came in 20 century

[@henryi9738]

I was born in Latin America, but lived in Miami almost all my life. I can attest this video is accurate and succinct in its description of Miami, it's people and history.

[@oliversissonphone6143]

They missed that flights are typically quite expensive from two Latin American countries, but can be quite cheap to Miami. Sometimes it's the cheapest place for two businessmen to meet.

[@Awf780]

​@@oliversissonphone6143 it might be because there are tons of multinationals based in Miami oriented to latin America economy. Like music industry

[@thenonameguy7756]

The best part is that we have been living here illegaly and no one ask questions 😂

[@piedrablanca1942]

ahora dilo en español

[@KrlKngMrtssn]

Wow they speak Latin in America?!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I lived in Miami August 1979 to January 1985, mostly for college at the Univ. of Miami, and the most frequent sentence spoken by Hispanics then was "No peak Ingles" meaning, "I don't speak English."

[@anonymoususer8895]

No. Miami speaks English. You were in Canada. That’s where Hispanics are, in Canada. Not America.

[@jose91807]

​@@anonymoususer8895what you said made no sense. Hispanic means someone who speaks Spanish an Hispanic region is a region were Spanish is spoken. in canada people don't speak spanish, they speak English and French. making it a Latin region but not an Hispanic one since French is not Spanish. to summarize it. we have 3 term that I believe you are confusing. Latin: "a region or a person who speaks a language that was born from Latin" Latin American: "a region or person inside one of the American continents that speaks a language that was born from Latin" Hispanic: "a region or a person that speaks spanish" by these definitions Miami is a Latin American region and a Hispanic region since people in the area speak a "Latin language" and that language happens to be Spanish. canada is a Latin American region since they are a country in north America that speaks French but they don't use Spanish for that reason they are not Hispanic.

[@soggy_popcorn]

@@jose91807don’t feed the troll

[@robfromvan]

Did you meet Crocket and Tubbs?

[@diegogrageda3695]

Well now you have to say sorry no español lol

[@puckoster]

the first time i visited miami i was surprised by the influence of latin america on the city... after few days i embraced it and it's one of the best things about miami in my eyes.

[@emg6610]

Agree! Most of the hardworking Latins are there with thriving business.

[@juniorcruz3866]

Cause of the huge Cuban 🇨🇺 influence

[@Sora_Nai]

hate the crime though

[@NoctLightCloud]

​@@Sora_Nailove your pfp! it's perfect for this format!

[@Sora_Nai]

@@NoctLightCloud thanks. But how 🤔

[@miketondo123]

Born and raised in Miami, go to little Havana (where I’m from) it’s 100% Spanish speaking and majority of places/people don’t speak English. Being from Miami I feel like Miami is even more Hispanic than this data shows. It feels more like 75%-80%

[@FlyGuy_Aero]

There are parts of Miami that you would be lost not knowing spanish. I don't mean you won't fit in, you actually might not find a person who speaks english. Being 50/50 American/Colombian from NJ, it was very interesting bouncing around different areas of Miami.

[@srodriguez721]

Hialeah

[@o_KingOfKings_o]

Hialeah 😂😂😂

[@joseasantiago30]

Florida was under colonial rule by Spain from the 16th century to the 19th century, and briefly by Great Britain during the 18th century (1763-1783) Florida means flowery in Spanish

[@martincito1662]

Did anyone ask you??? I see no one!

[@joseasantiago30]

@martincito1662 Most people don't know the real history. The natives of FL are Pensacola, Apalachee, Guale, Timucua, Potano, Ocale, Tocobaga, Mayaimi, Ais, Calusa, Jeaga, Tequesta and Matecumbe.. Europeans stole many lands in America's. It's all reality. History doesn't offend me. But it does some people because most people can't handle the truth

[@elpibe1924]

Florida was Spain, not a colony

[@joseasantiago30]

@elpibe1924 Thank you for making it clear.

[@chrisespinoza3788]

Thanks man, Ik some ppl are dicks, but pretty cool fact!

[@Spectacurl]

As a Costa Rican I always think of Miami as part of Latin America, but in the US

[@anonymoususer8895]

Nah. Miami speaks English. By your logic, Costa Rica is part of Africa. Or China is part of South America. It makes no sense.

[@motioncompensation1544]

@@anonymoususer8895Compare the number of flights between Miami and Latin America to those between Latin America and Africa. Count the number of people in Miami who actively maintain their relationships with people in Latin America to those who live in Latin America and maintain an active relationship with someone in Africa. Count the amount of Dollars exchanged between people in Miami and Latin America to that between Latin America and Africa. Things may start to make sense, once you start counting.

[@allydr90]

​@@anonymoususer8895 why are commenting nonsense everywhere?

[@DefensisIndus]

​@@allydr90He keeps saying that only Canada has Latin Americans. I think he dislikes Americans 😮

[@raymondcerv1370]

Just like PR

[@Lets_Talk_About_it_Luv]

I naturally picked up Spanish in middle school. I was always around Latinos. It also helped that I came from a multi cultural background so I was encouraged to learn about different languages and cultures. I’ve come to learn that speaking multiple languages opens up so many doors and opportunities.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

If you live in Miami, Yes. If you live in LA, it’s advertising for mowing lawn.

[@luisquinteros7492]

😍😍

[@lilacfields]

@@nobilesnovushomo58i live in georgia and knowing spanish is very very useful if you work in any front facing field. i have a friend who got a job at a law firm simply because he knew spanish and other applicants didn’t. they used him as a translator

[@TheSilver2001]

Geography, an established local Latino community, and the climate created Miami.

[@val-schaeffer1117]

Why cannot democratic demand be both pro and anti immigration? Why is pro immigration is seen as liberal and democratic, and anti immigration as authoritarian, even if it is overwhelmngly supported by the resident population?

[@cseijifja]

​@Biggie-Cheese9french is literally latin based.

[@anonymoususer8895]

@Biggie-Cheese9 Nope. English speakers are majority in Miami. There’s a flood of Latinos in Montreal.

[@rafaelvallen1145]

​@@anonymoususer8895lol, you're at all comment sections. i admire your devotion to gaslight people

[@bruhbutwhytho]

@@val-schaeffer1117Because stopping immigration is restricting personal freedom.

[@DailyDoseOfInternet]

I live here. I love it. You must know Spanish 👍

[@Black_Jack9460]

Woah, it’s him.

[@TadOfTajin]

Or maybe you should accommodate to the country you move to and learn the language…

[@Froghater69]

​@@TadOfTajin Nicaraguan mexican here (and proud floridian) just because we speak Spanish with our friends and family doesn't mean we dont know English

[@benjiii751]

Hi Daily dose of Internet

[@saulspanco854]

😂 They should know English

[@305Outdoors]

I was born in Miami. My family is from Cuba & Nicaragua. I speak Spanish about 45-50% in daily life. This video is pretty accurate

[@Karuska22ps]

So you're illegal?

[@305Outdoors]

Yo momma@@Karuska22ps

[@NoNo-ng9sl]

Meh. This video acts as if Miami is so unique. I'd argue Houston now is much more diverse and as heavily Spanish. Switch the Cuban with Mexican (Tejanos have been here since the beginning of Texas statehood). And the HUGE population of Central Americans and incoming Venezuelans and Cubans. The Cuban swell in Houston is making us much more Cuban, and it looks very different than the 60s & 80s era Miami. The amount of business owners that are Colombian and Salvadoran probably rivals Miami.

[@fldon2306]

Love Los Ranchos!!

[@305Outdoors]

@@NoNo-ng9sl sounds nice, I wouldn’t know never been to Houston

[@BrandonVerse]

Was born in Jamaica and grew up in Hialeah. Learned to speak Spanish just from living there! Also learned I love reggaeton and Latin food ❤️ God I miss Miami

[@RoCK3rAD]

If you like reggae you will like reggaeton because it’s ripped (illegally) from a reggae song from the 80’s song fish market

[@FUCKTURY]

@@RoCK3rADcry

[@danielhernandez-vo9zc]

@@RoCK3rADno illegally. Learn the history first please. Jamaicans working in Panama influenced reggaeton. At first “El General” was the first to come out with something similar to modern day reggaeton, working along side Jamaican producers. Also reggaeton is a sped up beat of Dance hall not reggae.

[@TickleMeChelmno]

Why not stay in Jamaica? I’m noticing a pattern

[@arthurm.358]

@@TickleMeChelmno same reason you didn't stay in Austria 💁🏾‍♂️

[@backwoodsbumpkin7209]

Met a group on the Appalachian trail up here in WV. None of them spoke a lick of English. And in my limited Spanish I asked where they were from. They said Miami

[@mth1368]

This is just a recipe for a balkanized nation where we have no common language. WE need to immediately severely limit all immigration legal and otherwise. Enough is enough. How are these Miami spanish speakers ever going to live outisde their little bubble in south Florida. Imagine if we did this to a city in Spain. Only the US puts up with this crap, but my feeling is people are really getting tired of all immigration legal and illegal.

[@roy07x]

Ha ha ha.

[@PleaseDoNotDoThis]

Damn we’re going to be hearing a lot of fucking Spanish from NPCs in GTA 6.

[@VinyZikss]

yeah no shit

[@cripbk2147]

Lmao

[@Lil_Robya]

And French

[@piedrablanca1942]

una chimbita

[@estebannarvaez1495]

Por supuesto 😂

[@uponseas]

I visited Orlando last week and was blown away at how much Spanish was spoken. I ended up opting for Spanish-first conversation there, in Universal Studios 😂

[@darrtrubb]

“Orlando” in Spanish is “San Juancito” lol

[@jeffreybanks0519]

Orlando has a huge Puerto Rican base especially in Osceola county...

[@jsphat81]

Yup, Orlando is another place where there are many Latinos and many don’t speak English or refuse to do so. It’s only a little bit more Americanized than Miami but not by a lot.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Interesting Miami facts: Miami was named after the Miami River, derived from Mayaimi, the historic name of Lake Okeechobee and the Native Americans who lived around it. Mayaimi means "big water". The roosters found in South Florida like in Miami and Key West are descendants of Cuban ones bred for fighting. Doing that isn't legal in the US anymore, hence why a lot were released and now roam the region. Little Havana has big rooster statues to honor these Cuban roosters, installed back in 2002 when there was a craze to put animal sculptures up in US cities. They're based on a model sculpted by Tony Lopez who had a pet rooster named Pepe who followed him around. Miami Beach holds the largest collection of Art Deco buildings in the world, and Miami Beach's embrace of Art Deco was a perfect storm of circumstances. The city needed buildings to accommodate all the people (their population inflated to roughly 28,000 by 1940), it had the space to do so, and Art Deco was the style at the time of the 1930s and 1940s. Dozens of architects, like Albert Anis, L. Murray Dixon, and Henry Hohauser, took their talents to South Beach. The Tequesta tribe occupied the Miami area for around 2,000 years before contact with Europeans. A village of hundreds of people, dating to 500 to 600 BCE, was located at the mouth of the Miami River. It is believed that the entire tribe migrated to Cuba by the mid-1700s. Miami is noted as the only major city in the United States founded by a woman. Julia Tuttle, a local citrus grower and a wealthy Cleveland native, was the original owner of the land upon which the city was built. Tuttle was the one who convinced railroad tycoon Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the region. Miami was officially incorporated as a city on July 28, 1896, with a population of just over 300. Incredible growth since then!

[@theogceilingfanman]

You are everywhere

[@gdcopyright3916]

don´t forget the amount of ecuadorians that fled their country to the usa during the 1999 crisis, with miami being one of the main destinations after new york. One of my uncles currently lives in Miami as a pensioner, and we have visited the city sometimes, it feels like home

[@cienfu_egos]

3 million Ecuadorians left and never came back during the decade following 1998. although the vast majority settled around New York and the Northeast US. there's relatively few Ecuadorians in Florida.

[@katjerouac]

Queens is full of Ecuadorians. yes there’s everything in Miami but relatively few ecuadorians compared to Cubans Colombians Venezuelans etc.

[@brianausrin3355]

@@katjerouacQueens is basically Little Ecuador, can confirm I live there.

[@naptime0143]

​@@brianausrin3355they have been slowly expanding to other parts of the state but the largest population of them are in Queens

[@mcbatetens]

But it is not ❤

[@Manueltion15]

Another thing is Haiti. Although they don’t speak Spanish they still influenced parts of Miami. Same for Brazilians, and Caribbeans such as Jamaicans and Guyanese although not as much as Hispanics Edit: Latino includes Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brasil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The reason Haiti is not there is because they are Creole and don’t speak a Latin language Latino≠Hispanic Hispanic is if you speak Spanish, so it would be those places, minus Brasil and add Spain.

[@cdaloc2701]

Brazil is still apart of us they have indigenous and Spanish/portugues blood just like us Latinos but Jamaicans Haitians and Caribbeans are their own shxt.

[@Manueltion15]

@@cdaloc2701 yeah Brazilians are Latino However Latin America also includes the Caribbean islands since they are also native. But most classify as black or Afro-Caribbean so I get what you’re saying

[@angeldiaz7001]

​@@Manueltion15 Not all of the Caribbean is Latin American, and you don't need to have indigenous blood to be Latin American. As defined, Latin America is defined as the region in the Americas where Latin/romance language and culture had an important influence. In contrast to what you say, the more native a person is, the less Latino that person is perceived by other Latin Americans. That is because an indigenous person is not and doesn't want to be considered a latino, ignoring his true origin is an insult to them.

[@Manueltion15]

@@angeldiaz7001 Haiti? French influenced I only ment Haiti and others influenced by romance speaking countries

[@VIVIHESS]

@@cdaloc2701 Brazilians have also Kongo blood like a lot of latin countries, "C da Loc".

[@iCanbEYOURrUKIA]

I lived in Miami-Dade for 5 of the most formative years of my life, and because of this, a piece of my heart will always live there. My family is from Puerto Rico and we mostly lived in NYC, but later moved to Miami for many years. It truly is a multicultural hub within Florida, and there's very few places like it in the US, imho. My friends and neighbors were majority Black or Latino, and honestly, I remember having more white teachers than classmates, most everyone around our community was non-white (later moving to NC was a major culture shock for me). You can find any type of Carribean or Central American restaurant you can think of, you hear different languages daily depending on where you live- of course English, Haitian, many Spanish dialects (including Spanglish 😂), French from southern creole folks or Africans- you name it. And so much rich Native American history in Florida; in school, we learned about the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes. Many streets, counties, cities, and rivers in Florida are named after native American tribes or words like Okeechobee and Okaloosa counties, the Caloosahatchee river, the city of Kissimmee, etc. But Miami, in particular, is just a colorful place to live in general. It's like NYC with a warmer climate and friendlier neighbors who speak and do business in Spanish. I probably wouldn't live there again because of high rent and overcrowding, but it's a wonderful place to visit and take in Latin American and Carribean culture without leaving the country.

[@2007CamryToyota]

Black and Latino are not separated groups there’s many black latinos specially in the Caribbean. Haitians are latinos too

[@JoBlakeLisbon]

​@@2007CamryToyotaHaitians aren't Latinos mate. They speak French and Creole and have a totally different culture.

[@2007CamryToyota]

@@JoBlakeLisbon French is derived from latin and creole mostly from french. They got Independence from France which was also one of the countries that derived from the roman empire. So they do count. There's plenty of diversity between latin americans. In fact french speakers are the reason it's called Latin America and not Ibereo America which would far more accurate. The term latino is kinda vague, there's a little bit of latin in all of us after all.

[@shaddythewiz3836]

⁠@@JoBlakeLisbonFrench is a latin language and they are in latin American just like how brazil is latin American country. There just not hispanic countries which is a different category which is exclusively Spanish speaking countries.

[@bailagringacovers]

I am a proud South Floridian and I love our Latino population. I love practicing my Spanish and experiencing a new culture at every block

[@panosmosproductions3230]

As a person who wants to live in Florida in the future, and with knowledge in Spanish. I might consider moving to Miami over Tampa or Cocoa Beach.

[@MWB18]

As beautiful as Miami is, It is a very busy city. If you like more of a family oriented, slower paced place, Tampa is the way to go.

[@ungrateful-66]

Tampa is a poorly planned, “poorly” ghetto compared to Miami and Cocoa Beach isn’t what it once was.

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@ungrateful-66 You’re in Canada and have never been to the US. So you know nothing. Delete this comment that shows off your ignorance!

[@robertduluth8994]

@@anonymoususer8895what is canada? You mean smaller, shittier and colder America?

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@robertduluth8994 Nope. You heard me.

[@lucio.martinez]

During college in the late 90's, We'd go down from Tampa to Miami. We'd go down with friends from there. I remember walking in a shopping plaza, like any in the whole USA. There was a sign that said, "We Speak English". I was shocked to see that. I'm Mexican, with ties to Texas. As a kid, we've cross into México to eat good.food and for shopping. I had never seen a sign like it, there.

[@Jonathan_O]

Tampa saw Cuban, Spanish, Italian and even German immigration well before Miami. Most to work in the cigar industries at the hundreds for cigar factories. While Miami is now larger, Tampa is much older of a city.

[@LucasViera-b1p]

For the Americans, it is a problem for cultural, linguistic and racial reasons. Don't forget that they took over more than half of Mexico's territory.

[@Lahcsap]

Went to Miami/Fort Lauderdale area for a week last year in the summer. Went to numerous convenience stores and gas stations where the cashier barely spoke English. I remember in the liquor store, I asked if they had “flasks” and she said “Uhh we have Tequila?!” only to find out there was a shelf full of flasks right behind her. Though it was pretty ridiculous :P

[@Claudette68]

Lahcsap could you please tell me what is” flasks”? I have been living in a miami for 54 years, working in a customer service departments, dealing with licenses and permits, motor vehicle where the weight of the vehicle and the use or type of transportation or cargo determines the cost. I also needed to explain to customers the legal aspect of owning a motor vehicle and the type of insurance needed for the single vehicle or the a fleet. To make the story short I needed to learn a lot of legal terminology in English and never read that word “ flask” . That is why I needed to know why my English instructor never mentioned to me that in order to be educated and proficient enough to English I needed to use that word. Can anyone tell me please? I do not drink any liquor at all perhaps is this any brand of whiskey? Or wine? Gin? Beer? Bourbon? Scotch? Tequila? Rum?

[@Claudette68]

I found out in internet that “ flasks” is a little container to hold ( or hide) liquor so Nobody will notice you are drinking. In other words the person saying the clerk did not know English for not understanding that word is very close mind. Why he did not change the phrase and asked “ Do you have a small bottle or container to pour liquor inside? Usually cheap people who do not want to pay full price at events and restaurant try to hide those small devices inside their cloth to get in the liquor. I did not know the name of that container and it does not mean I did not know English. In Spanish you do not have a name for it.

[@jesucristobostero3287]

That the fck is flasks??

[@Lahcsap]

I guess some people live under a rock. In America, I can confidently say most people have heard of or know what a flask is… It’s just a small container, typically metal, that is used to hold alcohol. Mainly used if you need to sneak it into an event where they do not allow outside drinks (a concert, a sports game, things of that nature).

[@lmlm_]

Happens all the time there. I once asked a grocery store employee where the yogurt was. He didn’t know what I was saying until my latino friend said it in Spanish: yogur. 🤡

[@profesorxaviersagot8251]

I recently visit the city and it is true. Languages are so important in Miame, as I also speak french I notice there are a loto of French-Canadians too, if you speak languages I bet your chances for success at work is guaranteed!

[@xoxxobob61]

The Miami School system asked its Students as to what Languages they can speak or communicate with their friends and/or families either at School / Work or Home. They identified 74 Languages being used to communicate in Miami.

[@profesorxaviersagot8251]

thank you for sharing! that's very interesting!@@xoxxobob61

[@zeged]

I went to upper new york before and there were tons of french people from quebec

[@mishikirita]

Interesting video! Just something, Puerto Ricans don’t technically emigrate to the US because they are American citizens. I like your content! Thanks!

[@fffmcfff9112]

they were not a territory at the time

[@ricardo97castro]

Very good video. I am cuban raised in Miami, can attest to it. Wholesome research. Thank you

[@Acc0rd79]

Come to Kissimmee and it's the same way. The Orlando area is completely repeating Miami history of the 70s and 80s. Kissimmee has so many billboards in Spanish and I would say more than half of the radio stations are in Spanish. My son is in a private school and in 2nd grade there are only 2 white kids in his entire class! Everyone is hispanic in Kissimmee for the most part. Local old boys are moving as fast as they can to Tennessee and the Carolinas. I saw the exact same thing as a kid living in South FL.

[@xoxxobob61]

Kissimmee is a Puerto Rican enclave especially with many who came after Hurricane Maria a few years ago so this is no surprise.

[@Lafamiliavera]

Kissimmee is in Osceola county and Osceola county is the only county in the entire USA that has a Puerto Rican majority!!!!!!!

[@WETALKINMEDIA]

Be careful Latinos are white as well , they'll tell u that. Just a different language

[@darrtrubb]

They’re not Hispanic, they’re Puerto Rican and they ain’t finished arriving.

[@Lafamiliavera]

@@darrtrubb you may not have all of the corrective information, my friend. Puerto Ricans are Latino, Hispanic and United States, citizens, altogether!

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

I think scarface explained this a bit, It's a multude of different reasons, Started in the 60s and part of me thinks it's because it was the closest place to go

[@MrMaier3000]

My only problem is that, they get mad at me for not speaking Spanish..

[@monstracrazy0194]

It's ridiculous

[@amj.composer]

That's kinda on you, if you're young and in Miami you better learn it.

[@MrMaier3000]

@@amj.composer If I was in a Spanish speaking country, I would..

[@DioTheGreatOne]

​​@@amj.composer Ummmm no? If you go to an English-speaking country the LEAST you could do is learn English.

[@Tritone]

@@amj.composer This is not a Spanish speaking country!

[@AlbertoFolres]

Miami is latin America, always has been

[@azulaquaza4916]

Except it’s not, as none of USA is Latin America

[@tzu-hsianglin7011]

Close to FIU you can find Colombian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, Chilean, Argentinian, Venezuelan, Guatemalan, Cuban, Nica, Mexican restaurants in a 500-meter radius, Miami is the capital of Latin America!

[@Dah42]

But Miami belongs to Americans. How would Latin Americans feel if a huge number of Americans immigrated illegally to their countries, subsequently establishing 'colonies' and refusing to learn the local language, while also expecting the government (taxpayers) to provide for them?

[@no_more_spamplease5121]

​@@Dah42It is not an issue. US Americans are welcome here. You are the only one who is xenophobic. Have a great day.

[@Dah42]

@@no_more_spamplease5121 Hi. How are you? Of course, it's not an issue since Americans who visit Latin American countries spend a substantial amount of money there. Latin American countries benefit tremendously from American tourists visiting their nations. However, I don’t think Latin American countries would be thrilled if, every year, they had to accommodate 1 million American illegal immigrants who would live at the expense of their taxpayers. Just because I don’t approve of people violating and disrespecting my country’s laws doesn’t mean I'm 'xenophobic.' I've also heard Chileans or Mexicans complain about illegal immigration to their countries. Are you going to accuse them of being 'xenophobic'?

[@HD-xn1br]

All 1 million yearly immigrants live at the expense of taxpayers? Not a single one of them works, owns a business, contributes to society in any way shape or form? I'm sorry, but you're a xenophobe. @@Dah42

[@diegorodrigovelasquezmeniz8026]

​@@Dah42as Texas and California ..????

[@andyhegarty820]

As a man born here in 99 to a Nicaraguan mother nothing makes me happier than saying I’m from this magical city.

[@dougcastle1785]

Born in Nica but raised most my life in Miami.

[@ihatetheworld90]

In the southwest specifically South/west Tx to SoCal are heavily Hispanic and almost always have been but it’s mostly Mexican and descendants of Hispanics who settled there when it was apart of Spain/Mexico

[@anonymoususer8895]

Nope. That’s the prairie provinces of Canada you’re thinking of.

[@2007CamryToyota]

California has been Hispanic almost as long as it has been Anglo; the first permanent Spanish settlements were established in the 1770s. Anglos started coming around the 1810s

[@raymondcerv1370]

Texas Hispanics has more influences from North Eastern Mexico and Central Americans, California Hispanics have influences from Northwestern Mexico and Central America as well.

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@raymondcerv1370 Texas has no Hispanics. You’re thinking of Alberta in Canada.

[@danmur2797]

​​@@2007CamryToyotaActually the first permanent Spanish settlements in the U.S. southwest happened in the 1500s in New Mexico and Texas. Juan de Oñate and other colonists established what eventually became the cities of Santa Fe and Albuquerque New Mexico. They established the Camino Real (Royal Road) which originated in Mexico City, winding north through important Mexican silver cities, and into El Paso and Santa Fe. Even today, many New Mexicans have Spanish Sephardic Jewish genetic ancestry from settlement during that period. After independence Mexico still used this route to send more colonist settlers into its northern territories. The 1700s is when states like today's California first received permanent settlers though.

[@CarlosWashingtonMercado]

A side not for the channel owner: The Spanish Empire never had colonies in Hispanic America, but viceroyalties (or some other minor denominational units of gobernances, like "capitanías"), which were extensions of Spain in the wholse sense. Colonies was a thing for anglo countries, NOT for Spain. People from the US has plenty of mistakes in their text-books about Hispanic History. Please, do take a look to this playlist here in KZbin: 🧠🇪🇸 Hispanismo Global (Spanish Empire/Imperio Español - "Plus ultra" en América) Pay special attention to the +3hs length videos about the conquest and the viceroyalty years (their like in the 10th place in the list).

[@jp1431]

The viceroyalties tittles came later on in the colonization. They were indeed Spanish colonies. The first ones (Santo Domingo, Cuba and Puerto Rico) were used to take gold, crops and the money from all the plantations back to Spain. There’s a reason why almost all of Latin America fought for their independence and won, because they didn’t want to live in colonies regardless of the fancy name the King and Parliament in Spain place on its colonies.

[@sergiogarpla2902]

Cuba was severely exploited and kept as a colony after the "viceroyalty" naming, by which a lot of cubans were enslaved

[@CarlosWashingtonMercado]

@@sergiogarpla2902 source for those claimings?

[@sergiogarpla2902]

@@CarlosWashingtonMercado bluh, slavery was abolished in cuba in the 1886... A total of 225k brough africans extra for slavery in, reaching almost a total 1 million slaves before abolition. Just open any history textbook and go to the year of the law of Moret.

[@CarlosWashingtonMercado]

@@sergiogarpla2902 Great information, thanks!

[@TheQUBANQT]

I was born & raised in South Florida, and privileged enough to have lived in several states but always return to South Florida. South Florida has a diverse culture incredible shopping plenty to do & the food is amazing. When I think melting pot I think South Florida. I don’t enjoy, living in non-culturally diverse regions of the United States.

[@srblackhat1]

I’ve been in Miami for vacations several times in my life, I was surprised I barely had to use English because most of the employees speak spanish.

[@TheCheesecakeAngel]

Feel like youre seeing this everywhere in rhe US. Latino pop growth has been insane and almost everu major city has seen it to varying degreees even away from the border. Rhode Island and the western suburbs of Chicago come to mind as big examples of a big latino pop. My uni is in the Midwest and has a majority Latino pop as well, went to high school in the northeastern suburbs of atlanta and that was also predominantly Hispanic.

[@johnjones3332]

someones gotta work.

[@mixa7039]

guess that's what they said when they brought slaves over huh@@johnjones3332

[@harrisonc985]

@@johnjones3332work to send the money back to their countries. net negative drain on the US economy. teenagers looking for a summer job shouldnt have to compete with 45 year old mexicans.

[@arthurm.358]

This is kind of a problem because Hispanics are taking over jobs and businesses that were once dominated by non Hispanic black ppl. That shyt has been going on since my grandfather's time smh we are slowly being phased out 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@bog4ntkd8932]

Is it true that in Rhode Island there are more Brazilians and Portuguese than Spanish speakers?

[@BBB17470]

New York is on the same route, the bad thing is Latino immigrants used to adapt to the American way of life , now they want America to adapt to them and their culture, I’m a 46 years old Latino who came to this country at 12 years old

[@squarecracker]

Yeah i really cannot stand them. I am a foreigner in my own country, and this country is going to become exactly like the places that they fled from.

[@BBB17470]

@@squarecracker I understand your frustration, your government is failing you , and trump ain’t the answer either , we lacking leadership in America , I thought the white man had everything figured out, not the case anymore, they done open the border , here in NYC you have lil kids on the train selling chocolate, people at the traffic lights selling vegetables just like in Latin America , and they keep coming!

[@jp1431]

But Anglo people didn’t adapt when they migrated here. New York was first native and then it was settled by the Dutch, the English invaded later. Florida was also native and then settled by the Spanish and Caribbeans, the Anglos invaded later on. It’s crazy to glorify Anglo migrants settling here and not adapting to the culture and then complain when others do the same. Beauty of America is that we can all live as we want as long as we don’t kill anyone or break laws.

[@Bronx_Yankee]

Too much traffic, too high property taxes, since the pandemic crime, too much construction, my condo parking garage had lambos, Maseratis, Benz’s and 3 families sharing a one bedroom. Speaking English means jury duty, everyone is exempt, even defendants have translators. I sold my condo in 44 days, moved to small town Central Florida 1/4 acre 3/2 with garage for half the price. No thanks

[@ssamhg]

That's an insane story man, sorry you had to go through that. I am thankful I live in Cape Canaveral. This place is literally paradise :0

[@virginiansupremacy]

crime has been going down forever

[@Not_Sal]

Oh poor you

[@Bronx_Yankee]

@@virginiansupremacy They are just not reporting it, shoplifting, property crimes, auto break ins under $1000 swept under the rug, its going to increase with migrants that are chasing a smaller dollar

[@Bronx_Yankee]

@@Not_Sal Not any more, I am outta there

[@pbohearn]

I saw this coming in 1983 when I was a student at the University of Miami, and went to eighth Street, the center of “Little Havana.” Even back then you could walk into a business like a Franchised gym where the staff did not speak English

[@Epsilonsama]

Funny that some dude with a foreign accent is acting like Miami being mostly Latino is something new. Like as a Latino myself it's been like this all my life. Many hispanic productions come from Miami this days. Florida itself was a Spanish colony for a long time as well so there was always Hispanic influence. Also not only Miami is that way but Orlando as well. Go to MCO and you realized real quick that Spanish is the language spoken by most people there.

[@Edward_prada]

bruh just cuz you’re from a hispanic part of a city doesn’t mean the whole place is hispanic dawg. north miami is ran by blacks and the coast is ran by whites so what u talking about 😹😹😹

[@laptv2144]

The Spanish built almost nothing in Florida. The entirety of Miami’s economy, infrastructure, and society comes from the rest of the US.

[@jlm3744]

Definitely want to go check out Miami now!! I'm Puerto Rican, but I was born, raised, and still I've in Maryland. Its so boring here, there's almost no Latin culture here. I want to move somewhere were there's more Latin culture. I could move to some of the border states near Mexico, but that's too far from my family plus that's more central America Latin culture. I've been to the homeland (US territory) of Puerto Rico and it is a paradise. I'd love to move there, but it seems like big leap because its not technically a part of the US, and when I go there I still feel like an outsider because its very different, I get a culture shock. I've never been to Miami, and from what I've heard from other people, that its an amazing city. And after watching this video, I really want to go check the city out. It can prepare me and be my launching point to move to Puerto Rico, or if I really love the city more than Puerto Rico, then I'll stay.

[@xoxxobob61]

If you want a more "Boriqua" culture than Miami I would suggest Orlando / Kissimmee instead. It's just more "Suburban" than Miami though but the culture is there.

[@jlm3744]

@xoxxobob61 Yeah, I've been to Orlando, nice city. I'm not really looking for only small Boricua communities, I'd like to live in a big city that just has more latin culture in general. Orlando I didn't see it as like a big latin hub, it was still pretty much a mixed city. Haven't driven around Kissimmee, I should go check that out. But also, I love big cities. What I've heard and seen from the internet and from people I know that have been there, is Miami is a big city, beautiful women, its clean, and some areas feel like your in Puerto Rico. And now, from this video and from people in the comments, hearing that the majority of the demographic is hispanic and Spanish and latin culture is everywhere. Sounds like my kind of city. Also I've heard from other Puerto Ricans that Kissimmee is kinda boring, and that there's a joke that the Chicago and NYC Puerto Rican communities are better than Kissimmee and the other communities. But I also don't want to move up north into the small communities.

[@Myhandle718]

The Bronx?

[@jlm3744]

@Myhandle718 Nah, I'm not interested going up north and I've been to the Bronx it's not super hispanic, it's still pretty mixed. Plus it's just one community in the city, I'm looking for a city that's entirely dominated with latin culture.

[@xoxxobob61]

@@jlm3744 I'm from Miami and your description is accurate. There truly isn't another city like it in the US. You can take that to the bank!

[@Hectico2257]

Lol very true, Miami aka North Cuba is basically what you get when you put all the Latin American capital cities together. Although it’s gotten so expensive that most newcomers start there and move to other satellite cities. Greetings from Katysuela TX 👋

[@kris5885]

This comment is now the reason I know there are A LOT of Venezuelans in Katy😂

[@anonymoususer8895]

Nah. Not really. Montreal is north Cuba and what you get when all LatAm cities are combined. Miami is English speaking.

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@kris5885 There’s no Venezuelans there. That’s Calgary you’re thinking of.

[@mMartinez-ju7xg]

Been living in Tampa and West Palm Beach since 6 as a child of Nicaraguan immigrants. No matter how expensive it gets I’ll always see Florida as my home.

[@anonymoususer8895]

@@mMartinez-ju7xg Nah. You have been living in Montreal and Toronto since 6.

[@sebastiandelaparra]

I've always seen Miami as the Zürich of White/High income Latin Americans. It's a tax heaven in the US

[@equilibriumrebelado4893]

I would say half of them are Iberian latinos and the other half Black or mulato latinos.

[@erwina4738]

Its a mix of everything but the poorer ones are in some of the suburbs outside or next to the main city

[@anonymoususer8895]

Nah. Miami speaks English. You’re thinking of Montreal.

[@dasselbe2521]

@@anonymoususer8895 french are barely if not at all recognized as latin American in Europe, why would they be recognized as latin American?

[@mixtapemania6769]

@@equilibriumrebelado4893 Yeah disproportionately white then. Because in most latin american countries the population is majority mestizo/mulato, not white.

[@cryaboutit432]

It's always so funny to see people from Miami happen to pass through my town on road trips. You don't know how many times I've been asked "this is Florida, why don't you speak Spanish??", as if they've never been outside of Miami (which I don't doubt).

[@LucasGoulartDuarte]

why arent you bilingual tho

[@dewok2706]

because its america and i speak american, now go back.@@LucasGoulartDuarte

[@waverider227]

Im a Florida citzen once went on a cruise met an Algerian guy who could only speak French ., He asked me where i was from via google translate on his cell phone when I said St Augustine Florida he only kept saying MIAMI MIAMI MIAMI Some people just dont get that Miami is only a small part of Florida and Florida as a whole is DEFINTLEY NOT MIAMI!

[@HermitKing731]

Latinos are the kind of people who would live for 20 years in America and never bother to learn english.

[@Ursulas_prey]

I was raised in Miami in the 80s in the Cuban exile community. But my family came from Cuba and Nicaragua! This is a great video! I don’t live there now but I miss the culture!

[@salinas831100]

I’m from California an visited Miami with my gf an the coolest thing was that everyone spoke Spanish .. so much that I had to translate for my gf … I like the whole vibe .. would’ve definitely move there

[@MediumDSpeaks]

10:48 Im from Miami, I went to FIU in Miami and studied linguistics. I was one of few learning French, Japanese, Mandarin while everyone studied this exact phenomenon for their Masters and PhD theses, Miami English. You got it pretty spot on with the Spanish affected vowels and ESPECIALLY rhythym. One guy used the example of these really funny youtube videos from the late 2000s called Pichy films where the creator'd make fun of the Miami accent as an example and jumping off point for the evolution of Spanish inflected English in Miami and was able to create a map showing the further south you go up to about Homestead, the thicker the average accent becomes, and even 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants who might not even speak spanish anymore show the pattern! Even some black and white people living in areas like Kendall and Pinecrest show the accent, it spreads like a plague! I worked really hard to lose any accent, but when you put me with my high school friends, there it is!

[@SamuelincaElinca]

Is an accent that bad?

[@MediumDSpeaks]

@@SamuelincaElinca I don't think anybody said it was bad

[@TruthPapi]

LITERALLY? 😑

[@miamianz]

i love the accent lol you know your home when you hear it. i love the evolution of language especially in the case of Miami local culture it really is phenomenal.

[@jesusdavis2941]

I left Miami in the mid 1990's . Moved back to the caribbean never spoke a Word of English for like 15yrs, ,Now i came back and have been wondering ever since: did i speak like that back then?? Can't remember

[@axelprino]

Quite a number of times I've heard from people that went to do tourism on the US that they went to Florida, mostly Miami and Orlando, mainly because they can just speak in Spanish and be understood.

[@Ozama1221]

Orlando is becoming the same thing for Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans, and to a lesser degree Dominicans and Venezuelans

[@pedrosalazar6310]

Kissimmee is basically San Juan, Puerto Rico 😂

[@mixtapemania6769]

In my experience Orlando is Puerto Rican, Haitian and Brazilian

[@Ozama1221]

@mixtapemania6769 true those groups are present too, probably a little more than the other groups I mentioned, aside from Ricans ofcoarse, Puerto Ricans dominate the Orlando area

[@marlene97280]

haitians

[@darrtrubb]

Orlando in Spanish is San Juancito lol

[@Rintintin7676]

I'm Uruguayan and visited the US twice, places like California, Miami, Texas, I speak fluent English but would often just forget and directly talk to people in spanish - only to be suprrised when someone didn't get what I was saying and I was remindd that it's supposed to be an English-language country. The US is great for Spanish speaking tourists, feeling welcome and at home. For Spanish speaking americans not living inthe US the "latin american" tag sounds ridiculous because language and culture varies a lot between countries - I am Uruguayan, and stop there. But I guess when you're in a foreign country where culture and language is definitely at another level of difference you will settle to cluster with those you feel closer - even with largely varying accents, looks and origins.

[@harrisonc985]

you-are-gay-an?

[@raymondcerv1370]

What state did you like the most and why, as an Uruguayan?

[@alexissoto5662]

English language country 😂

[@Laughandsong]

I had my first chivito in Miami Beach!

[@thomasgrabkowski8283]

Easy to forget as a Spanish speaker when you’ve been to California, Miami and Texas, 3 places in US where Spanish is very widely spoken

[@mayito714]

Coral Gables and much of South Florida used solely Spanish and Mediterranean architectural styles developed primarily by George Merrick in the 1920s . This design focus still predominates in much of South Florida.

[@Got2GooF]

Those migrating here should also learn the language. Being born & raised in Miami-Dade & latin bloodline, I do find it annoying the nerve these migrants (Doral-zuela) have to tell you to speak Spanish to them. If you move to any other nation, you have to learn said language. Just cause there is alot latins doesn't give you the right to treat those who speak English primarily like they're second class. Let's make no mistake, Spanish is not the primary language of Miami, just as English isnt the primary language of any tourist destination in the world.

[@douglasolsson7768]

I'm about intermediate level in Spanish but I do hate it when employees at the Freakin' Airport will ask Josephine American: "Algo mas?" Come on! You have lived in this country 30 years and can't spend a little energy learning the basic language? I'm not asking you to give up your culture or language. If I moved to a Latin American country I would learn the language as quick as possible.

[@eboniaco]

ahora dilo sin llorar

[@jp1431]

As a Latino, I encourage other Latinos to learn English or any other language so that they don’t get stuck as monolinguals. I also encourage white and black anglo citizens to also learn Spanish or any other language so that they are bilingual. While English dominates in most of the US, it is not the only language spoken here and Spanish only continues to grow in this country.

[@noelyanes2455]

Florida is a former Spanish colony.

[@grod805]

This idiot is clueless

[@zlayer3170]

But now it belongs to America, “The Land of the Free”.

[@noelyanes2455]

@@zlayer3170 There’s no such thing as a land of the free.

[@2007CamryToyota]

It was a former british colony too. In fact it was under British control during the revolutionary war.

[@noelyanes2455]

@@2007CamryToyota for 20 years and Spain recaptured it from the British.

[@ninavaughn2274]

My father moved to Miami in the 1950s. He was Cuban. We speak English and Spanish. There are places that Spanish is predominantly Spanish speaking (Hialeah). But, Cubans are entrepreneurs and, for the last 33 years, the mayor of Miami has been Cuban. Then, others came in the early 90s. Brazilians too. Now it’s a world famous city. Grandparents decided to work three jobs instead of learning English and made themselves money and paid taxes. Anyhow, FL was owned by Spain . Now it’s a hot pudge,

[@juniorcruz3866]

Cubans 🇨🇺 have been the majority in Miami for the past 65 plus years and their the largest community in Miami by far. Their always gonna be the largest community in Miami and Florida.

[@Keyer-bn3dp]

@@juniorcruz3866unfortunately we have a lot of communist sympathizers on the Cuban community that get food stamps and welfare and take it all to communist Cuba. It’s embarrassing. Early 1960s Cuban emigration was the best and they learned English. Today is trashy and Hialeah is a low class symbol. 😮

[@mannyruiz1954]

Enjoyed this video. Spot on. I've been a citizen of Miami-Dade County for 40 years, and have roots in South Florida since the 1940s. I've witnessed all these changes.

[@alfrredd]

Spanish empire never really left.

[@costilla1212]

As a mexican seeing how Miami is mostly hispanic I will now never step foot in Miami Way Too Dangerous

[@nattidread5844]

Is the Mexican Spanish differ from the Caribbean Spanish?

[@I_am_somebody_1234]

@@nattidread5844 by a fucking mile, each nation comunity comes from a different country, and there is a lot of difference between a Mexican and a Venezuelan for example.

[@Trollingizlife]

Are you not gonna step foot in Mexico either? 😂 Self-hater!

[@xoxxobob61]

@costilla1212 Stop lying! You aren't Mexican because if you were you would feel safe in Miami considering it doesn't have Mexican Gangbangers like LA.

[@sofiamartinezdurand]

​@@I_am_somebody_1234If what you say were true, why is Mexico so dangerous? There really isn't much difference between the crime rate of Venezuela and Mexico, just look at how they behead people in northern Mexico. I remind you that Richard Ramírez, one of humanity's most dangerous serial killers, was of Mexican origin.

[@Armando.Sepulveda]

Hardly any Mexicans living in Miami, the rich maybe but not the average Mexicans

[@vanessa0111]

Rich Mexicans would rather live in LA of course

[@danielfrancella5219]

I think it's a good idea to know a little Spanish. I have been learning Spanish for 2.5 years. I know enough to get by. I grew up in Frederick , MD. It's a city of about 80K 45 miles north of D.C and 45 miles west of Baltimore. It used to be a rural mainly white community. Now it's pretty diverse. You hear so many different languages. The West End of the city is primarily Spanish speaking. When I go out to eat out there , I get to test my Spanish speaking skills.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Because of all the immigrants going to Florida, in 1982, the United States Border Patrol set up a roadblock and inspection point just south of Florida City. The people of the Keys viewed this as the government effectively viewing them as another nation, and the Key West City Council claimed the roadblock hurt their tourism industry. In response, Mayor Dennis Wardlow and the council declared Key West's independence as the Conch Republic in April of that year. As part of the protest, Mayor Wardlow immediately declared war against the US by symbolically breaking a loaf of stale Cuban bread over the head of a man dressed in a naval uniform, quickly surrendered after one minute, and applied for one billion dollars in foreign aid. Two invasions happened in 1995. In September, it was reported that the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion of the Army Reserve conducted conduct a training exercise simulating an invasion of a foreign island. However, Key West officials weren't notified. Thus, they mobilized, sending a schooner and attacked a Coast Guard cutter with water balloons, conch fritters, and stale Cuban bread. During the government shutdown at the end of that year, Dry Tortugas was closed. The Conch Republic wanted it to remain open, so in protest, they sent a flotilla of Conch Navy, civilian, and fire department boats. And in 2006, the Conch Republic annexed the Seven Mile Bridge because the US claimed it wasn't US territory under "wet feet, dry feet".

[@mattc9875]

It was a 1-minute symbolic secession, which is still represented by the motto "where other failed, we succeeded" still shown on the Florida keys flag

[@loumcast]

The Cuban influx into Miami-Dade county turned the greater Miami area from a sleepy retiree heaven into a vibrant, cosmopolitan and world re-known international city.

[@loumcast]

@@carymarshallfelton9188 I hate to contradict you, but I know what I'm talking about, cocaine did not built-up Miami, immigrants did.

[@ESCAGEDOWOODWORKING]

@@carymarshallfelton9188 The Population of Miami in 1950 was 249,276, and the county 495,084. All things considered, not too small, but what Hispanics created economically in Miami, is beyond trying to minimize. I mean one can try, but the numbers are the numbers. And yes, let us not forget there was a history prior, which many are unaware of and should be.

[@WHYOSHO]

Can’t forget about the Haitian and African American urban influences. The music, the slang, the cars, etc.

[@TruthPapi]

When people outside of Miami think of Miami it’s an image of Tony Montana. Now it’s insurance fraud, money laundering, scammers, government corruption, only fans, Miami coin 😆 blah blah and in between you have rich foreigners and angry minimum wage survivors. Don’t @ me this is 📠

[@Earthlybeing396]

@@WHYOSHOthere’s a very small almost unnoticeable amount of influence from those groups in Miami

[@eduardouribe800]

Caracas, Medellín Cartagena Barranquilla are only 2 hours away by plane. Miami is just an extension of Latin America

[@juniorcruz3866]

Bro Havana is 48 mins away only. Cubans 🇨🇺 are the largest influence in Miami and Florida.

[@joselassalle4958]

​@@juniorcruz3866Cuba 🇨🇺; tan cerca y tan lejos!

[@lmlm_]

5:23 I don’t know where you got this stat but by 1990 Miami was 62% hispanic/latino according to the US Census. Much more than 26%.

[@DariusJones05]

Went to visit the UM campus and check out the area because I wanted to move there. There was a subtle hostility because I didn’t speak Spanish. I remember trying to grab Wendy’s one night and the lady flat out told me “no English. Go” 😂 like wtf. The art distract was nice, music and food amazing, but damn I realized I couldn’t live there

[@allydr90]

Everyone that moves to Miami that doesn't speak Spanish has a traumatic story where they realized they had to learn Spanish to survive.

[@veronicalagor4771]

Yeah. Realizing I either have to really invest in learning Spanish or leave. It's a massive culture shock, growing up in central Florida. Like I always grew up around Spanish, but people still overwhelmingly use English there.

[@DariusJones05]

@@allydr90 for me it wasn’t that I’d have to learn, I guess it was more the hostility near coral gables and near the old Wyndham walls. We went to this restaurant on the Havana strip and the food was bomb. Waitress was nice, but the regulars kinda glared like wtf was I doing there 😂. Still had a good time, but realized it probably wasn’t an easy move just to go to school there

[@HermitKing731]

@@allydr90 And the latinos dont have to learn english? They can just live in america because their countries of origin are way to poor to live in and act like they own the place.

[@HermitKing731]

@@DariusJones05 "What is this American doing in America? Go back to your.....uuuuh."

[@BG-ej5fy]

I’m from Puerto Rico and the Orlando Area in FL has more puertoricans than the PR metro area. In average there are 26 flights per day from PR to Orlando.

[@joselassalle4958]

No way! You're exaggerating. The population of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 is about 3.5 million.

[@jaydynstockdale8717]

lol I’m literally going from MCO to SJU while seeing this 😂😂

[@BG-ej5fy]

@@jaydynstockdale8717 lol

[@huracan3207]

​​@@BG-ej5fy you say the metro but west coast Puerto Rico we are asked to speak English. Rincon has mostly mainland Americans living there.

[@BG-ej5fy]

@@carymarshallfelton9188 I live in PR but used to work in Miami and Orlando. Love both but Orlando was more Family friendly. I love Orlando area.

[@mikeshafer]

If Trump gets re-elected he should declare English the national language of the US. Enough of people living here not able to talk to Americans. If I move to Germany, I will learn German. It's just common sense.

[@monstracrazy0194]

Agree

[@viceralman8450]

America is the land of the free you can speak whatever you want.

[@xoxxobob61]

Can TRUMP get MELANIA to speak ENGLISH too?

[@viceralman8450]

@resolutionaechived Nope I speak both English and Spanish, first amendment gives anyone the right to speak any language in the USA.

[@Otterstone]

@@viceralman8450: Having a national language doesn't mean you can't speak any other language...

[@Dingleberry69420]

Cubans hate immigrants but the Cubans were the first to be given handouts 😂, free money, green cards and even papers.

[@Paul-kt1nx]

Great video although the part about Spain was a bit misleading. Miami was settled after Florida joined the Union and even then it served as an output for the army’s campaigns against the Seminoles, as well as a small village mostly populated by Bahamian fishermen. By the time Henry Flagler extended the FEC railroad and the city was incorporated, the Spanish American War was already over. I’d say Bahamians and Ohioans had a significantly larger influence on the early developments in Miami than Spaniards.

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

Nevermind St. Augustine, though.

[@fldon2306]

"Paul" is commenting on MIAMI, the focus of the video.Miami. @@pablodelsegundo9502

[@fldon2306]

Fort Dallas was right on the Miami river, now next to the James L Knight Center and the Mini-Mover station on the North side of the river.

[@GreoGreo]

Even the name of the state is in Spanish 😂😂

[@mth1368]

Colonial Florida when sold to the US in 1819 had 8,000 people almost all of whom were not from Spain. In 1830 it was 34,000 mostly white settlers. Stop trying to act like the US stole Florida from Miami Cubans or even spain. Spain considered it a useless backwater. You lot weren't here at all, and Miami was a large city in 1960 before the Cuban invasion. @@pablodelsegundo9502

[@HombreWithAnOmbre]

I love miami. The diversity there left me awestruck when I first visited. Not to mention the infrastructure and beaches. It's a wild and beautiful place ❤

[@milliedragon4418]

I have an uncle that lives in Miami, you have to know Spanish there. Because there's so many Spanish speakers. Even his wife is Latin American.

[@anonymoususer8895]

There’s no Spanish speakers there. And your uncle lives in Canada. That’s where Spanish speakers are.

[@spookstories823]

@@anonymoususer8895womp womp

[@martinparababire-mrrx-3448]

​@@anonymoususer8895wut

[@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061]

What horror!

[@PacificRoute]

@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061what horror , Learn another language 🙉😵🙈

[@Sergio1Rodrigues]

the higher classes of Brazil, for example, find Florida the apex of consumerist desire, many keeping houses there. Once a justice complained his salary was very low because he could barely afford to go to Miami to buy new suits

[@dsxa918]

This was one of Spain's longest held territories north of Mexico if I understand this correctly

[@noelyanes2455]

Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam

[@atmosphereoasis9564]

The invasion is returning back. After hundreds of years

[@jeffreywolfe1]

Native Manhattanite, born in 1963, married a Brazilian woman in 2015 in NYC. We moved to Broward late '16. Now have two kids, 6 and 8. Both of us are professionals, and we travel to Brazil at least once a year. My kids will be trilingual (English, Portuguese, and Spanish) as I am proficient but not totally fluent en Espanol. We believe everyone should be comfortable in two languages, and my challenge has been to improve my Portuguese. Growing up in the Miami area, immersed in the Latin American culture here is providing my kids with an advantage they wouldn't have elsewhere. And one day my Spanish will be fluent, espero.

[@luccianodfs6711]

In 2001 when i was 5, my parents took a flight from Peru to Miami. In school there where all kinds of people from every country, lots of europeans and south americans and other hispanics. Good childhood, I consider myself Floridian though i dont live there anymore but go every once in a while for business and seeing relatives and friends. Im sure theres plenty like me.

[@SuperRip7]

hmm.

[@IllUMINATED33]

You're not a Floridan. You're an immigrant. Your family isn't from Florida. You cannot trace your lineage back to Florida, so why lie? Stop trying to be something you're not. You're of an immigrant background, you just happen to live here.

[@goodcitizen6334]

Puerto Rican Colombia here from Hollywood, FL. Traveling to other parts of the world were people do not transition between languages makes me feel like an outlier.

[@arshadali2312]

Both Tony Montana and Frank Lopez added to the dynamism and vibrancy of Miami.

[@cvhashim]

Good upstanding men, need more of those 😀

[@waverider227]

HAHAH most of Scarface was shot in LA < the Cubans in Miami drove them out and the actors were mostly Italian NOT Cuban,

[@arshadali2312]

@@waverider227 Which I can understand -- those Cubans wouldn't have been overjoyed at being portrayed as drug lords and criminals.

[@Slo-ryde]

@@waverider227regardless, it’s about them.. who were the ones facilitating the flow of dope!

[@waverider227]

@@Slo-ryde clandestinely the US govt