I'm here on the streets of West Bromwich to ask residents here a pressing cultural question: Do they identify more as Brummies or Yam Yams and which of their respective areas they feel more attached to. Let's hear what they have to say about their identity and regional pride.
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00:00I think it's I think it's more like a Birmingham area now because it's got a
00:03bit more people coming in into West Brom because of the college and stuff like
00:07that. So the students coming into West Brom so I think it's more a bit like
00:13more like Birmingham but on a smaller scale and because of the new shops
00:16round the back so yeah it's like becoming like Birmingham. We don't need to go to
00:20Birmingham to be fair. To be honest with you, I don't know Birmingham that well.
00:24I don't really go to Birmingham. I've been living around here about nine years so to
00:29me it's every you say every day change and nothing changes so basically like I
00:35say I can't really answer that question because I don't know Birmingham at all.
00:38I think what it is a still black country just so we get more a lot of mixed
00:46nationalities now which is good. It could be a mixture of both because as you said
00:54the transportation links from Birmingham to West Bromwich they are
00:58more prevalent now. People are able to move from one area to the next so I
01:03wouldn't say that it is predominantly a black country suburb but also there's a
01:12good mixture of multiculturalism that is here now so and I think that it's
01:17because of the the good transportation system that is now put in place that
01:22people are able to travel from Birmingham to West Bromwich and then
01:26they will see okay this is a nice area because I'm a living example of that. I
01:31traveled to West Bromwich a few times. I think so that that opinion is coming in
01:36make a point because for the economic view people moving now more Birmingham
01:42like boys before to go Maryhill but now people try to go Birmingham because
01:47there was a lot of opportunity to go Birmingham to find some stuff maybe in
01:52Maryhill cannot find in economic purpose makes sense makes sense for that way
01:56yeah people try to move now yeah