Hi I'm Joel and I'm Lia and I'm Tom and this video is all about different
communities in London
so we get a lot of comments from you lot asking about what are
the different communities in London lots of you are looking to move to London and
while it's important to integrate into the culture here in the UK I think it's
also really important to have a community that you belong to because
London can be a really lonely place to live
so London is like a super
multicultural City so there are so many communities right around in London
ok who wants to talk about the first community in London?
okay I want to go with the first one because I find this one the most
fascinating okay and that's the Korean community
ah amazing
I only just
really explored or found out about the Korean community and it's based in a
little kind of area just almost on the outskirts of South West London in New
Malden and it's like little Korea and it's like allegedly it's 20,000 Koreans that
live there and it's this whole community where there's
Korean signage shops it's just it's amazing yeah
that's so awesome yeah I used live
in Raynes Park which is just one stop away from New Malden so I walk
there occasionally um it's just full of Koreans
so is there a Korean supermarket yeah that's
so good yeah so I led you the reason
I researched the reason that you know the
original Korean embassy was based in New Malden which is why a lot of people kind of went
there in the seventies and eighties
yeah because it is an odd place - yeah yes
it's a really random place why would you ever go to New Malden?
and most embassies are usually in very flashy areas and New Malden is just not flashy
but I think it's moved now into central London
and then allegedly the the Samsung headquarters of Europe yeah was
originally based there as well so I mean two great reasons if you're Korean
I really wanna go there
allegedly there's an amazing that Korean fried chicken and
beer place so
fried chicken and beer?
I mean if you're not busy
is that Korean? it sounds American
it's like Korean fried chicken and Korean beer
oh yeah
is there an American community in London?
because I worked with students from NYU but I didn't know if
I was just sort of
in this spot where I was like oh
there's loads of Americans here whether there's
actually a hub for Americans in London I don't think there is
and I think that's because
they speak English you find it easier to integrate with British people whereas I
think one of the big reasons for people sticking with communities from the
country that they're from is the language that's a huge part of why
yeah there
was an American School in St John's Wood so I think whether you've got like
schools and institution that people kind of congregate and I know that there's like an
American football teams based around there as well so maybe there was or is
and same with churches like there seems to be lots of Greek Orthodox churches up in
North London and that's where a lot of my family live that a Greek it tends to
be where there's already stuff to do with that culture or that language or
community but I actually went to a meetup for Greeks it was called London
Greek artists okay and I actually really didn't have a great time unfortunately I
was the only sort of English born Greek there and I felt not Greek enough to be
there I guess that's also the generational thing like if you are a few
generations in
yeah
you're the second or third generation you feel like a local
Londoner you don't feel so Greek
so it's, how does your identity form within you?
like it you do you feel Greek or do you feel London?
it's really hard because like
with my Greek family they would be like no she's English
but like with my English friends I like to think oh I'm the Greek one
but i'm so not
so it's really hard
identity problem
around where I live yeah there's
a lot of like Greek Cypriot businesses so the hairdresser I go is such a great
barber I love going in there and hearing like London Greek Radio
all that kind of stuff
the fish-and-chip shop is owned by Greek people
yeah but they
tend to be from like my camden up
yeah you'll find Greeks
yeah will will find them
you can't get rid of them
i'm with one
where I used to live in Clerkenwell was a huge Italian community I think it used to be
a lot more Italian back in the day yeah it used to be known as like Little Italy
but whenever I'd walk through Clerkenwell there's like a massive Italian
church there called St Peters and next to it that's like a Italian delicatessen
and like whatever the Italian version is
shops and everything and it's just
really lovely
I remember on I want to say Sunday because it was the church finishing
but it might not have been Sunday but anyway um all the Italians sort of
being pushed out onto the street as they're leaving church and like it just
looked like a really lovely community of everyone just chatting Italian and like
going to the shop and the cafe afterwards
that's just it's just really nice if you
did you really wanna be Italian yeah I did and
I'm not sure what my heritage is it
it could actually be Italian my family just aren't sure because my family from like
Romany gypsies which means we could be from anywhere
Going on from that institution so
there's le lissage francais which is a school in Kensington mmm yeah I've
heard that there is a big French committee that's kind of built up
around that school because a lot of the people that are from France want
their kids to go there and to speak French every day but also kind of live
within a bilingual sorry grow up in a bilingual way and amazingly so
there is an MP well so yeah an elected representative of the French parliament
in London so all the French people that have moved abroad they get to vote for a
representative to represent them in the French parliament or whatever and
there's one based in London so anyone like a French person who lives in Paris
yeah sorry a French person that lives in London can vote for a representative
amazing that's a really cool perk of having
your community yeah
so you can live in London you can but you can vote yeah
have your own little French MP
a Frempy
a frempy - a French MP
one of my favourite things in London is the way you
could kind of you can get on the bus and you can go through loads of different
communities so and there's a bus called the 253
and you can get on at
Euston and it goes to packing centering it goes through some amazing communities
I can go through Camden in this but it's like hipsters and what sort of rockers
and stuff and then you go through Holloway and then it goes on and then
you get to Stamford Hill and Stanford Hill is the most amazing place
with a
hasidic Jewish community yeah where everyone is traditionally dressed it just
feels like a totally different world yes I went up there for a job and I had to
sort of like do a double-take and it's really stark like you you're going down
one road and then suddenly you turn and you're like wow I'm in a totally different
London this is yeah you know it's kind of like the traditional word of ghetto
meaning like a separated community right
yeah it's really only people from that
community yeah it's amazing and it's amazing that until this point still it's
really strong since things get diluted so early and like people often get priced
out of areas and you hear of them not being able to sort of stay near what
they want to be near yeah but there's also a really huge sort of Caribbean
influence going on in Brixton
you know when you get out at Brixton and you've got so
much sort of like Jamaican Caribbean yeah vibes even just like the music
that's playing when you come out of the station it's electric it's so cool
yeah like we we're saying pockets of London
with these communities really exciting
and definitely worth exploring when you're here yeah with that Caribbean
culture is it's the one I think about most when I think about like a
multicultural London I think about like yeah Brixton and that kind of area of
multicultural sort of Caribbean and then also at Notting Hill
I mean the Notting HIll carnival yeah there isn't a bigger representation of like
multicultural London yeah it's amazing yeah if you guys
do you ever go ?
yes sometimes it can be
like chaos it can also be really fun yeah yeah yeah it's not my sort of thing
crowds but I
like watching like videos and on telly I like watching the recap of it oh that
looks nice again Notting Hill that was a very traditional Caribbean community
that has development we see now it's changed it's become very people even priced out
so yeah
I think these communities are being pushed
further and further out because I know that I watched a documentary about
cockneys who are like people that are born in London who usually were in East
London but now they're being priced out and pushed futher out so now you don't
really find that many cockneys in London they've sort of moved over to Essex and
they sort of reside over there now and then that's changing their accent and their
identity and then so they're just sort of fading out so it is sad about gentrification
but yeah but then
it's kind of just evolving things so like let's say Brick Lane for example
which is now a largely Bangladeshi area with also hipsters as well yeah
but that was traditionally a Jewish area so a lot of the Jewish early settlers then
left there and went off to Stanford Hill and Golders Green and then the Bangladeshi
community moved in so yeah these areas just evolve no one really owns that area it's just like
on Brick Lane you've also got
got signs written in Bengali so it's like you've got little Bangla town
on Brick Lane and loads and loads and loads of restaurants which is like it is
literally like five steps later and you're in a different place yeah it's mental
amazing it's amazing photo if you took capture like Brick Lane and then the
translation in Bengali
yeah that's what I think is really nice though Brick Lane is that
you've got all those cultures in one place whereas I'm not a fan necessarily
of communities that are purely one section of society even if it's just
cockney or whatever it is I like when people sort of integrate the cultures
all together I think there's a lot of yeah a lot of integration
yeah it's one of the great things is yeah do have that fluid movement of people
yeah in fact if you're
into sort of food who isn't
there's an amazing market on a Saturday and
Sunday and it's on Brick Lane and it's got everything's got like Malaysian food
and and like just every sort of like Caribbean food every sort of genre of
food all under one sort of Street Market it's really nice try the Malaysian
pancakes I've not been to Malaysia but I know what they taste like
and on that note guys I think we'll leave it there because you've already
got so much on London communities this is gonna be in part one we think yeah
yeah, there could a part two I suspect yea if you're up for it?
definitely I love talking about London
excellent
and don't forget to let us know down in the comments what community you're from
and if you've experienced that coming to London we'd love to hear your thoughts
we also found a video over on Tom's channel that's right yeah we looked at
London accents right so the different variations and these guys are amazing
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