What kind of hispanics live in Miami? (movies, winter)

[flyers29]

Originally Posted by doggiebus

Like Rock said you pretty much have every hispanic background represented here in Miami.

Though not too many Mexicans outside of the laborers working on the farms. I think that makes a big difference when comparing to other places in the country.

[Rock Newman]

Originally Posted by flyers29

Though not too many Mexicans outside of the laborers working on the farms. I think that makes a big difference when comparing to other places in the country.

Not all true ... you have a growing number of affluent white Mexicans from Mexico City who are purchasing expensive homes and condos in Coral Gables , Aventura , Brickell and Key Biscayne ... very elitist "white " Mexicans that include many Mexican telenovela ( soap opera stars ) and singers ... the Univision and Televisa crowd ... I go to Mexico City often and Miami has become their sort of Latin Hollywood and a chic place to purchase property .

[WINTERFRONT]

Originally Posted by Rock Newman

Not all true ... you have a growing number of affluent white Mexicans from Mexico City who are purchasing expensive homes and condos in Coral Gables , Aventura , Brickell and Key Biscayne ... very elitist "white " Mexicans that include many Mexican telenovela ( soap opera stars ) and singers ... the Univision and Televisa crowd ... I go to Mexico City often and Miami has become their sort of Latin Hollywood and a chic place to purchase property .

But's it's been like that since the mid 90's. Do you remember Thalia?? She used to live at a luxurious apartment in Souchy Beachy.

Even the great majority of our Mexican "neighbors", here in the Greater Miami Dade Area, tend to look very different from the ones u see in Cali or Homestead.

[flyers29]

Originally Posted by Rock Newman

Not all true ... you have a growing number of affluent white Mexicans from Mexico City who are purchasing expensive homes and condos in Coral Gables , Aventura , Brickell and Key Biscayne ... very elitist "white " Mexicans that include many Mexican telenovela ( soap opera stars ) and singers ... the Univision and Televisa crowd ... I go to Mexico City often and Miami has become their sort of Latin Hollywood and a chic place to purchase property .

This is true, but you don't see as many below the wealthy class...and that makes a difference when comparing Miami to the rest of the country.

[Marlin331]

Originally Posted by Chewie_77

The old timer white Cuban's of the 50's, 60's and 70's are starting to dwindle and many of their offspring have left Miami for good. Now there's mostly newer Cubans as well as a lot of South and Central Americans.

This is true. Miami's Latin population has really gotten diverse since 1980. This has been increasingly evident to me in the last 5-10 years or so.

There are still plenty of "old-timer" Cubans (who have lived in this country for 30-50 years) and their American-born children, however, in Coral Gables, West Miami, Kendall, Coral Way/The Roads, South Miami, Pinecrest, and Miami Lakes.

Though Miami-Dade County is about 60% "Hispanic," less than half are Cuban or Cuban-American and probably only about half of which are "old-timers" and their kids.

[MiamiRob]

last Census estimates put Cubans in Miami Dade county at around 800,000 or so. Mexicans are 40,000 or so are as stated above they tend to be the white elites of Mexico not the mestizo darker kind you find in Texas or California.

[Shoegal1075]

Originally Posted by Rock Newman

Not all true ... you have a growing number of affluent white Mexicans from Mexico City who are purchasing expensive homes and condos in Coral Gables , Aventura , Brickell and Key Biscayne ... very elitist "white " Mexicans that include many Mexican telenovela ( soap opera stars ) and singers ... the Univision and Televisa crowd ... I go to Mexico City often and Miami has become their sort of Latin Hollywood and a chic place to purchase property .

I think when he is mentioning "Mexicans" - he is speaking more about the type of Mexican you imagin when someone says "I'm Mexican" - I don't imagine Luis Miguel or Thalia - I imagine more of a Lou Diamon Phillips with a pancho - I know it is not altogether accurate but, it is still what I think of - being from NY the Mexicans don't even look like Mexicans in Cali or Texas - they look very indian looking - ethnic looking so to speak - nothing at all wrong with it - this is just the image I get in my head - just like when I think of Puerto Ricans I think of Marc Anthony or J-Lo -while they have money and all that life can offer but most of their family is probably on the louder side at gatherings - this is certainly a fact of Marc Anthony's family who still had an apartment in a housing project in Spanish Harlem! When I think of Dominican's I think of Jose Reyes or Big Papi - but Dominicans too have really light complected people - you just never can tell! Colombians to me are the most like the Carribean Hispanics - culture, color and food wise - there is even a place in Colombia that the accent is very, very similar to that of Dominicans. (Princess, maybe you can help me out with that one, I'm not sure if it is Barranquilla or Medellin or neither). Argentineans, Uruguayans and Chileans are TO ME the most alike in South America. They are for the most part white (not always, as is the case of my husban, his complexion is much more like Johan Santana, which is not dark but for Argentina, he might as well be black). They don't typically eat what one may consider spanish food (rice & beans). I guess this is because a large portion of them are 2nd and 3rd generation Italians and Germans. I don't know where I would place Venezuelans, I guess they're somewhere in the middle. Equa's and Peruv very similar cultures to one another and that of Colombia but their look is different - It is rare to mistake a peruvian for a Colombian - This is my take - this is from someone coming from NY where almost everyone I grew up with was hispanic from everywhere. I will agree with Rock that we (Hispanics) do all hold eachother in a certain regard. I don't know why that is but it is fact. They way that Cubans are spoken about here is the same way Puerto Ricans were spoken about in NY - sucks but it is true!

[bamba_boy]

[quote=Chelsa1075;15699575]I think when he is mentioning "Mexicans" - he is speaking more about the type of Mexican you imagin when someone says "I'm Mexican" - I don't imagine Luis Miguel or Thalia - I imagine more of a Lou Diamon Phillips with a pancho - I know it is not altogether accurate but, it is still what I think of - being from NY the Mexicans don't even look like Mexicans in Cali or Texas - they look very indian looking -]

Man, you are sooo wrong! Lou Diamond Phillips isn't even MEXICAN!!! You're stereotypic Indio-Mexican is an American Navy brat and product of a marriage of a white sailor and a Phillipina woman. Born at Subic, Luzon I.

[WINTERFRONT]

Originally Posted by Chelsa1075

They are for the most part white (not always, as is the case of my husban, his complexion is much more like Johan Santana, which is not dark but for Argentina, he might as well be black).

Johan Santana IS black

[SoCal35]

[quote=bamba_boy;15701549]

Originally Posted by Chelsa1075

I think when he is mentioning "Mexicans" - he is speaking more about the type of Mexican you imagin when someone says "I'm Mexican" - I don't imagine Luis Miguel or Thalia - I imagine more of a Lou Diamon Phillips with a pancho - I know it is not altogether accurate but, it is still what I think of - being from NY the Mexicans don't even look like Mexicans in Cali or Texas - they look very indian looking -]

Man, you are sooo wrong! Lou Diamond Phillips isn't even MEXICAN!!! You're stereotypic Indio-Mexican is an American Navy brat and product of a marriage of a white sailor and a Phillipina woman. Born at Subic, Luzon I.

Yes, and I might add that Lou's ancestry roughly breaks down as follows:

Father: 3/4's Scotts-Irish; 1/4 Native American;

Mother: Filipina including a mix of Spanish (as in Spain), Chinese, and Japanese ancestry.