[Fishrrman]

Miami is an "international city." It is essentially a financial and business center for multinationals doing business in Latin America. Like New York, it is "post-cultural."

We are moving into a new world folks, whether you like it or not.

Clemenza, your points are well taken.

But the ultimate question is: can America - and the traditions and principles upon which it was founded - SURVIVE in your "new world"?

I, for one, don't think that will be possible.

I believe that - at some [probably distant] point in the future - it will be recognized that non-Euro immigration into Euro cultures doomed those cultures that welcomed such immigrants, who eventually replaced the Euro/Chistian/Western cultures with their own.

Call me a xenophone if you wish (I will wear that moniker with pride), but I think we have been digging our own graves....

- John

[Clemenza]

Good points.

Remember, however, that the LATIN aspect of Latin American culture is as European as the Anglo in Anglo American culture. Most of my colleagues when I worked down in Miami (and in Panama, at least in management) were of European descent.

Be thankful that we are not surrounded by the Islamic world.