memorial day a miami

[nicoars82]

Salut a tous, pour les personne qui sont sur place pourriez vous me dire a quoi correspond le memorial day Weekend, et pourquoi y'a tant d'affro americain a miami pour ce weekend et pourquoi ils agissent .... bizarement ??? Puisque j'en avai parlé a ma copine, et elle m'a dit que c'est un weekend ou les mec viennent avec leur plus "belles" voiture, que le fille se dénudent et bouge leur booooty trés facilement...alors si vous avez des infos ca m'aiderai a mieux comprendre...
pour ceux qui n'ont jamais entendu parlé allé voir sur youtube y'a pas mal de video dont pas mal sont interdite au moin de 18 ans

[Laurence]

Le Memorial Day est un jour de congé officiel aux Etats-Unis (c'est le dernier lundi du mois de mai). Il a été fêté la première fois durant la guerre de sécession pour rendre hommage à toutes les personnes qui en furent victime. Depuis la première guerre mondiale, cet évènement est fêté pour rendre hommage à toutes les victimes militaires.

A Miami, pendant ce week-end, il y a effectivement une grande partie de la communauté afro-américaine (qui vient de partout : Atlanta, Caroline, Floride) qui se déplace pour faire la fête pendant trois jours. C'est très branché rap, voitures, ... Bref, week-end où l'ambiance à South Beach est plutôt chaude.

[stephanie]

perso l'annee derniere j'avais franchement pas aime
ils son un peu dingue quand meme, ils roulaient n'importe comment, s'arretent tout a coup si il y a des jolies nanas sur la route; qui sont assez denudee et hot hot hot .....
un peu trop chaud pour moi.
et le truc que j'avais vraiment pas apprecie, c'est que la rue est degueulasse apres, pleine de verres, de bouteilles, de papiers... et meme des cd .... ???
et ca je trouve pas ca cool

[Tristan]

Alors le petit topo pour ce qui se passe à Miami lors du Memorial Day weekend c'est ce qu'on appelle le Urban Beach et ca existe depuis 1999. Voilà un petit historique en anglais car j'ai la flemme de traduire.

What exactly is the Urban Beach Week?
The Urban Beach Week is the largest Urban Festival in the world that caters toward the Hip Hop Generation from 23 and over. Around 300,000-350,000 participants make the annual trek to South Beach for 4 days full of fun, food, festivities, entertainment, music and more.

How Did It All Start?
Urban Beach Week started back 8 years ago as a small urban fashion show for a few thousand people interested in something different for Memorial Day Weekend in Miami.

In 1999, there was a a smaller crowd but little did people know it was the start of something that was going to be big in the future.

A lot of urban clothing companies wanted a place where they could show off their new fashions. To model their clothes, those fashion companies brought in entertainers, actors and models to put a spotlight on their fashion. There were fashion shows every day all day. The response was extremelly positive and very successfull.

It was actually called Urban Fashion Week in the beginning.

With the warm weather, beautiful scenery, exotic location and large beaches, the event became a new hot spot for other to look towards for vacations and especially Memorial Day Weekend.

Soon after, recording artist and record labels and other entertainers begin to generate the idea that instead of using the same places such as New York and California to shoot videos, Miami could be the focal point.

For the first time, dozens of music videos begin shooting in Miami and brought notice to even more people. People wanted to live and feel what it was like as if they were in a video.

With the success of the very first Memorial Day Weekend word begin to spread to people all over the internet, the Black Beach Week Newsletters and word of mouth that Miami was the place to go for May.

The very next year in 2000 over 250,000 people shocked Miami when people arrived for an all out party.

Since then, the event has grown and generated plenty of events such as the Celebrity Basketball Game, reggae festival, vendor area, shopping district, pool parties and has become the ultimate beach party for the Hip Hop culture. Last year was a record setting date as over 350,000 people witnessed the event first hand.

This year between 3O0,000 - 400,000 people will attend.

What happens at the event?
The actual event occurs on three streets along the popular South Beach Art Deco District. The hotels, clubs, shops,concerts and etc. all take place in one area so there isn't a need to drive anywhere to get to your destination. There are taxis within distance who can take you to any short distance areas.

[nicoars82]

Merci a tous pour l'explication
ca donne moyennement envie je pense que se weekend quand je serai a miami sera dédié a une bonne sieste...