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Old 09-20-2009, 07:19 PM
 
Location: MIA
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Oh, and car dealers. I do agree with you on that one.
The SUBWAY across the street from FIU. They couldn't manage a sentence of English, Moderator cut: Flaming.

The same thing goes for any restaurant on 8th street, most on Bird Rd, and most gas stations in the Westchester/Sweetwater/West Miami/Doral areas....


I could go on and on and on..............

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Old 09-20-2009, 07:27 PM
 
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That's not true. When I went to the used car lot at Maroone on Le Jeune Rd., they could not find an English speaking car salesman, and me and my girlfriend had to settle with a guy who spoke broken English. That was about a year ago.

I could name off 1,000 experiences exactly like that one in Miami...
Well, you need a college degree to sell cars, just good sales skills and like 99.9% of the customers in that area are Spanish speaking, so no need to hire an English Speaking one. What matters is the CASH.

You Cuba Libre really lived up to your name. It seems you never left the low income Spanish neighborhoods and on top of that got a job sending packages to Cuba? you must be kidding, which is quite possible with you.
 
Old 09-20-2009, 07:34 PM
 
Location: MIA
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Well, you need a college degree to sell cars, just good sales skills and like 99.9% of the customers in that area are Spanish speaking, so no need to hire an English Speaking one. What matters is the CASH.
How do we break the cycle of Spanish? Education? English classes? Even uppity Brickell Hispanics despise English. Moderator cut: Flaming

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You Cuba Libre really lived up to your name. It seems you never left the low income Spanish neighborhoods and on top of that got a job sending packages to Cuba? you must be kidding, which is quite possible with you.
FIU, my alma mater, is located right in the middle of the giant barrio otherwise known as West Dade....

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Old 09-20-2009, 08:14 PM
 
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How do we break the cycle of Spanish? Education? English classes? Even uppity Brickell Hispanics despise English. All that drug and sweat shop money from back home, why would they need English?



FIU, my alma mater, is located right in the middle of the giant barrio otherwise known as West Dade....
Now that I remember I have been in that particular dealer a couple of times (it's on 8 st and 42 ave) and people there do speak English there.

I don't know what to tell you Cuba Libre, it seems you lived in a parallel Spanish Universe and your experiences don't match mine.
 
Old 09-20-2009, 08:42 PM
 
Location: Miami North (Orlando)
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Everywhere except for Hector's underground cafeteria in Hialeah. Miami is best described as "bilingual" with English being necessary for any kind of success, just like anywhere else in the US. Miami isn't it's own nation and for anyone to suggest that is just as unpatriotic as the Hispanics who put the flags of their home countries on their cars. Knowing Spanish helps more than most places, but knowing English is key.

Dude, my wife works with the public. She has met hispanics that have lived in Orlando for ten and fifteen years and STILL dont know English. For many (even though I dont like it) dont have to learn English to get by.
 
Old 09-20-2009, 11:41 PM
 
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Miami is best described as "bilingual" with English being necessary for any kind of success, just like anywhere else in the US. Miami isn't it's own nation and for anyone to suggest that is just as unpatriotic as the Hispanics who put the flags of their home countries on their cars. Knowing Spanish helps more than most places, but knowing English is key.
Bingo.

Isolated incidents of dealing with broken English in Latin American Cafeteria or at a gas station are believable, but this "West Dade is a barrio and no one speaks English there" idea is rubbish. Either that or the entirety of Southwest Miami is in a plot to trick cuba libre into thinking that they don't speak English. Even the Anglos must be in on it!
 
Old 09-21-2009, 04:53 AM
 
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Whoever thinks Miami or South Florida needs to expand the legal legitimacy of Spanish and Latin culture, we need only look at the failures of Latin-dominated cities like Palermo, Bogota, and Guadalajara and their world class levels of crime, corruption, and poverty.

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Palermo, Sicily?
 
Old 09-21-2009, 05:08 AM
 
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There's no need to lean English in Miami. I think they should, but from a hispanic's point of view, why should they? Everywhere they go they hear spanish and others are speakin in spanish. where in Miami do you HAVE TO know English?
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You need English because in Miami most serious jobs require both languages. But if you work in Almacenes El Español "We Send Packets and Glasses to Cuba" you don't need English to work there.

Recently they hired a Cuban raised in Chicago that couldn't speak any Spanish and they had to fire him, even considering that his "abuela" (grandmother) is related to the owner. The poor guy could barely say two words in Spanish and his English was perfunctory. He studied Home Economics at FAU and got a D average. He tried to "re-learn" Spanish by resorting to the services of a "Mesmerizer", a Cuban quack doctor, but the results were atrocious. He ended hating everything related to his race and culture, he even changed his last name from Rodriguez to Vishinky.

He even dyed his hair red, but the results are not good because his hair is woolly. They call him "Red Vishinky" in the hood and "Krazy Guayabuo" in Cuban town.

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Old 09-21-2009, 05:25 AM
 
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That's not true. When I went to the used car lot at Maroone on Le Jeune Rd., they could not find an English speaking car salesman, and me and my girlfriend had to settle with a guy who spoke broken English. That was about a year ago.

I could name off 1,000 experiences exactly like that one in Miami...
So drive 35 miles north to Coconut Creek or Coral Springs and you will find plenty of English speaking car salesmen ..... jesus christ get over it .. we have beaten this issue to death .
 
Old 09-21-2009, 05:27 AM
 
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Whoever thinks Miami or South Florida needs to expand the legal legitimacy of Spanish and Latin culture, we need only look at the failures of Latin-dominated cities like Palermo, Bogota, and Guadalajara and their world class levels of crime, corruption, and poverty.

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Palermo, Sicily?

I asked my self the same question also .... WTF ??
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