Thread: Miami - Third World Country

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An editors response to the comment by Colorado Senator about Miami being a third world country. I don't know where the writer frequents but no matter where you go they don't speak English in public. It doesn't matter how old the person is, they just don't want to speak English. Let's face it if you live in Miami Dade you see it every day and I don't mean in Hialeah where the majority speak Spanish or in Little Havana. I have stopped buying groceries in Miami and go to a neighboring city. In Miami they have all kinds of Hispanic products with Spanish only among name brand products. Then some of the shoppers block the aisle speaking or almost yelling in Spanish. and look at you funny when you say excuse me because you want to get through. If you go to a shopping mall it is even worse. I went to Aventura Mall in north east Miami Dade County where it is not predominantly Hispanic as the south part of the county is. I could count on both hands the number of people who spoke English. Now that is sad.
There are stores with Spanish written on the windows or signs are in Spanish and you think that you are in another country. Drive down the Palmetto Expressway west bound and you see Billboards in Spanish.

I'm a "legal" immigrant from the Netherlands and I became this month a US Resident, with other words I received my Greencard. Next year I will apply for US citizenship and I'm proud of it. I live in suburban Miami, Kendall. Miami is a nice city where the sun always shines with allot of problems like no affordable housing, terrible traffic, a corrupted local government, a shrinking middle class, hard working but underpaid teachers (My wife is a US citizens and a proud teacher), bad public schools, hospitals where the majority of it's patients are illegal immigrants, arrogant cubans who don't care about the american culture at all than their banana island what is a mess, it's full legal or illegal south americans who are the poor and being called "garbage" in their own nation are here with a terrible mentality who can't or don't want to speak English, work hard for lower wages, try to rip you off when they try to sell you something and can't drive on the roads/highways by thinking they are home. YES, TOM TANCREDO IS CORRECT, MIAMI IS A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, ASK THE SOUTH AMERICANS IN LATIN AMERICA THEMSELF AND YOU HEAR OR READ THE SAME.

Welcome Nicholas. I agree with you 100%.

I thought Texas was bad (and we're quickly getting there) but Miami sounds terrible. I feel for you.

Welcome Nicholas_USA and good luck to you in obtaining your citizenship.
And thank you for the detailed description of Miami. Nothing like hearing from people who actually live there.
Living in southern CA I understand how areas no longer look like the U. S.

I spoke to my Puerto Rican neighbor and he agrees that Miami is a third world country. His reasons were the same as others had mentioned in this post.

The dumb part of the whole story why Miami is a third world country is because Americans and the Government of the US allowed them, legal and illegal immigrants from poor nations, to live here without pushing them to integrate into the society, giving them bilingual education while everything is translated in Spanish or Creole at public and government buildings. Results are devastating for Miami. they feel so comfy by speaking their own language, meanwhile their own old habbits are coming above, that is Siesta time, Fiesta time 24 hours, I love to party but 24 hours? come on I need to work too and again the bad habbits of greed, corruption within their own community. After huricane andrew in 1992 English Americans sold their land to them and they just left. They give up everything to them and this is Miami now. Now if you don't have a job and you're looking for one in Miami, and you don't speak Spanish or Creole, you have a problem. What happen to "equal opportunities for all"? Look freedom is great, but there has to be rules to have the so called equal opportunities for all here in the United States of America. Oh sorry, Miami is another country. I wonder when it will create it's own flag, one thing I know it will be a banana flag.


This is one of the best quotes I have read and what I received from my friends at work at the bank. It's from President Theodore Roosevelt, and I'm proud he is an American from Dutch descend, . I'm sure some of you know it:

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Did the last one out take the flag? Or can I expect to see it
burned & trampled on CNN?

You never know, this is the land of opportunities where the impossible can become possible.

There is no need for them to learn English is correct as they are being catered to. As for the Kreyol speaking Haitians many of them learn and speak English. They assimulate much more than the Hispanics. In fact the ones I went to university with were angry about the Hispanics not learning English as their families did.