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Originally Posted by Crawford
Miami isn't a cultural heavyweight, and this has nothing to do with Western/Anglo bias. It just developed too late to the party to develop traditional cultural markers.
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There is significant cultural identity -- Miami is a Spanish/Hispanic/Latino/Caribbean city. With traditional cultural markers emanating from those places of origin. The fact that Miami is without question the US capital of Latin culture, in all its various forms, signifies that it is most certainly a "cultural heavyweight". There is a very easily perceived, in-your-face Spanish influence to the region. And particularly because it is in the United States, it is one of the world's most prominent Latin cities. I don't know how much more heavyweight in culutre you can get than that.
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Originally Posted by Crawford
In fact Miami is a very white city, much moreso than other leading U.S. cities. It's much whiter than NY, LA, SF, Chi, DC, Atl, Houston, Dallas, etc.
Again, Miami isn't a "brown" city, it's a white city. The whites in Coral Gables, Doral and Weston are every bit as white as on Long Island or in New Jersey. And they speak English, obviously.
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I was talking potential Anglo attitudes towards what established "culutre" is. It's not a technical caucasian-origin racial thing.
White Cubans do not consider themselves to be be 'white' American. Miami is without question a "brown" city. My father-in-law is a fair-skinned Cuban who had reddish hair as a younger man... he would NEVER say he is white, nor identify in the least as a white (i.e., Anglo) American.
Miami is sooooo much more a "brown" city than ANY of those cities you listed. It is EASILY the brownest major city in the US -- in all the forms of "brown" culutre, if we're calling it that. It is the capital of brown culture for the US.