How American is Miami? (Miami Beach, Miramar: to live in, shops, safety)

[boxus]

Originally Posted by MiamiResident

American is anyone from Argentina all the way up to Greenland.

When someone mentions "American", they are meaning the demonym for someone from the USA; no other country in the world uses the demonym "American" other the the USA. This is pretty well universal, you may disagree, but it is what it is, I doubt anyone is going to change billions of people's minds on this, besides the fact it is rather absurd to refer yourself from a continent, rather than a country.

Are people from North and South America besides the USA really that ashamed to say what country they are from?

[boxus]

Originally Posted by T.Winter2001

I am white born AMERICAN MAN.
All the Haters here are Latino immigrants or 2nd gen Latino immigrants so they cannot accept any kind of criticisms about the fact that Miami is a 3rd WORLD CITY in a 1st WORLD COUNTRY.

Disagree, Miami is not even close to a third world city, I guess you have not got out much in the world.

[boxus]

Originally Posted by Miserere

Miami is not diverse at all, NY is diverse. I mean, being confronted by those people that live there is quite excruciating. First time I visited the city, the TWA Terminal was flooded by fat and screaming people, some of them spoke a Italian dialect I could not understand. Then you have those people with strange hairdressings, hats and fisheyes, lots of them...then lots of creepos asking from money, from people dressed as if they were in the 50's asking for money for any cause, sects, you name it.

Blacks there are quite apalling, coming from Europe and seeing a 300 pound black pushing carts or hanging around is quite intimidating, plus Asians...

Miami is or was a pleasant town.

How is Miami not diverse? What to you would make a place diverse? Please provide objective measurements for what makes a place diverse.

[deboinair]

Originally Posted by boxus

How is Miami not diverse? What to you would make a place diverse? Please provide objective measurements for what makes a place diverse.

I guess you don't know the meaning of diverse. Diversity is having more than one predominant race. Miami is a Hispanic city. When you go in stores and nobody speaks English, that is not diversity. Go to Doral and go to Miramar. If you can't see the difference than I can't help you my friend.

[Felix C]

Diversity is more than one culture as Hispanic is not a race. You would be in error to believe Cuban is the same as Peruvian as Brazilian,etc.

[bale002]

I agree that Miami is not diverse compared to New York, for example.

However, it is still very early days in the history of Miami. Give it time. Even now, where I live, I see regularly Japanese, Arabs, Chinese, Europeans from several different countries, non-Hispanic Caribbeans and South Americans, etc. And as it stands, some people here give short shrift to Haitian and African Americans who are proportionally present in Miami-Dade's main institutions and Creole is also a semi-official language.

In any case, I expect that Miami for a very long time will have a special relationship with Hispanic Latin America and native Spanish-speakers, but at the same time its demographic make-up will continue to diversify hand-in-hand with its economic relationships with Asia and Africa, which is one of the County's pro-active economic policies, believe it or not.

And they will all speak English, in conjunction with other languages, similar to New York.

Finally, worth repeating, its source of financing for major infrastructure projects will continue to be New York and Washington, private and public, as it has been since year one, so still plenty of old-fashioned gringos pulling the strings too.

We are all in this together.

[MiamiResident]

Originally Posted by boxus

When someone mentions "American", they are meaning the demonym for someone from the USA; no other country in the world uses the demonym "American" other the the USA. This is pretty well universal, you may disagree, but it is what it is, I doubt anyone is going to change billions of people's minds on this, besides the fact it is rather absurd to refer yourself from a continent, rather than a country.

Are people from North and South America besides the USA really that ashamed to say what country they are from?

No, I think we are lazy to say U.S. American or U.S. Nationals.

American is anyone from the continent.

[FlyMIA]

Originally Posted by boxus

Disagree, Miami is not even close to a third world city, I guess you have not got out much in the world.

Just ignore that guy, he clearly has some other problems.

[Felix C]

Originally Posted by MiamiResident

No, I think we are lazy to say U.S. American or U.S. Nationals.

American is anyone from the continent.

I always say American because that is part of the name. If someone attempts to correct me, as some folk from South America do, then I state the only America that matters. That suffices because there really is no other answer. I mean I,they,we are here in the USA and not in their country.

[Fire and Ice]

Originally Posted by TooLoud

Haha, oh wow. Not sure if extremely sarcastic or just really dumb.

Why just one or the other? I was going for both.