How Miami Basically Turned Into Latin America

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

I guess GTA6 default settings be in Spanish 😂

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

This needs Spanish subtitles.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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