Birmingham may be a city diverse in culture, but hopefully there is also something unifying the people living here. The term Brummie encompasses far more than just the geographical location, so I'm here in Birmingham to find out the rites of passage to becoming a bonafide Brummie.
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00:00What does it take to be a Brummie? Well I suppose you've got to be born in the area
00:04first of all, live in the area, be familiar with it. So I'm not from here
00:11so my observations are actually I find Brummies pretty friendly, pretty direct
00:17and friendly. That's what I found so far. Okay well the first thing I'd say about
00:22Birmingham is there are no rights of passage. Birmingham is a very welcoming
00:26city, just about anybody can arrive here and you're made to feel welcome. That to
00:31me is one of the strengths of the city, its diversity and that in the main it's
00:36comfortable with that diversity. Not everybody is, but the vast majority of
00:39people here are. It's a great city, it doesn't sing its praises, it's laid back
00:45about its great history, doesn't always appreciate that and I think
00:50that's why the rest of the country is comfortable about
00:55ignoring Birmingham pretty much. Great city. I think it's got to be the
01:00accent hasn't it, so you can identify a Brummie fairly easily from the way that
01:05they talk, the way they speak and the way that they sort of describe things and
01:09use unique words to explain how things work in a Brummie way. I think
01:14that's probably the most easy way to identify someone as from
01:19Birmingham and the way that you know that that's where we're from
01:22I'd say, if they might. I think people around here are quite open and are quite nice so
01:29like people are nice, so like not everyone is just closed down. Let's say
01:34you needed to answer, let's say you wanted to ask a question to someone,
01:38people are quite open and friendly. Rather than if you go to London or
01:43Manchester, people are a bit closed down, you know what I mean, yeah from my
01:47experience. Brummies, when they're talking about their mum, it's always M-O-M mum
01:55whereas everywhere else it's M-U-M mum.