Man: Well, I think of myself as British.
Woman: I think of myself as an Italian.
Man: A citizen of the world.
Man: I identify as a Londoner. I don't think I can really lay claim to anything outside M25.
Man:
First man: I identify myself as British.
Woman: I think of myself as an Italian.
Second man: A citizen of the world.
Third man: I identify as a Londoner. I don't think I can really lay claim to anything outside the M25.
Fourth man: I would say I'm a British Asian.
Fifth man: White English, British.
Mike Kenny: In London, people tend to identify more-- more confidently with being British. And with-- with the idea of a multicultural identity. Now, that's partly because the population of-- of London is made up, to a considerable degree, of people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and it's also because there is a disproportionately large number of young people, who, of course, live and work in London.
Sixth man: Yeah, English city actually.
Fifth man: No; mixed race, multicultural.
Woman: London is a cosmopolitan city; it's the city of the world.
First man: I think it's definitely mixed-cultural, rather than just English.
Mike Kenny: Undoubtedly there's been a-- there is a stigma associated with saying you are proud to be English. I think certainly around the time of the nineteen-nineties (1990s). Actually, we've begun to see a wider group of people, of broader cross section (*this sentence isn't grammatical, but it's what he said*) of society that has begun to identify with what it means to be English, and that feels that their English identity is more important to them.
People who live outside places like London feel that some of the wealth, some of the power, is hoarded in London and the South East, and this may be part of the story of why people are beginning to associate with a-- with an identity of being English, which is many ways about being opposed to the way things currently are.
