The Cuban-American community has been successful in the United States for a great number of reasons; based on both their efforts and the efforts of the United States. For starters when Cubans migrated to The United States between the years of 1959-1979 a large number of them were highly educated, wealthy and had some political power. Alongside of all that they also had knowledge of the English language so communicating would not be an issue once in the U.S. They were also “white” looking Cubans that first migrated, which would have made life in the United States at the time a whole lot easier. The Cuban-American people began arriving to Miami at a time when the city was on the verge of expanding and growing. However these were not the only
