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

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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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