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What? This is totalnonsense and a lazy stereotype from somebody who has probably never evenvisited the area.
Brixton, like anywhere inLondon, is a perfectly safe area to visit – so long as you exercise the usualcaution of being in a large world city – i.e. don't flash valuables and avoidwandering around drunk, or late at night down dark unlit streets.
In fact, Brixton is A LOT saferthan it once was – and in certain parts is becoming decidedly gentrified – withBritish young professionals and relatively well off European expats moving inalongside the older established Afro-Caribbean and white working classcommunity. Personally it's one of the most exciting and vibrant parts of Londonand a must see area for any visitor who wants to get a bit beyond the usualitinerary of tourist traps in the city centre. It's similar to Harlem in NewYork if you're familiar with that area.
I think part of its bad rapfrom the rest of the country and "middle England" comes with the factthat it has been the flashpoint of major urban riots (1981, 1985 and mostrecently 2011) but when these are not happening it's not a dangerous area andis completely safe for visitors.
Also it's known as thespiritual home of black Britain (again, kind of like a British Harlem). There'sstill a lot of casual racism in this country – because lots of black peoplelive there people assume it's super dangerous. In fact modern Brixton has manyother communities besides the black community – in fact it's one of London's (andpossibly the world's) most multicultural neighbourhoods.
Brixton market particularlyis a must visit for foodies – hundred of pop up restaurants serving amazingfood at v low prices. J
What? This is totalnonsense and a lazy stereotype from somebody who has probably never evenvisited the area.
Brixton, like anywhere inLondon, is a perfectly safe area to visit – so long as you exercise the usualcaution of being in a large world city – i.e. don't flash valuables and avoidwandering around drunk, or late at night down dark unlit streets.
In fact, Brixton is A LOT saferthan it once was – and in certain parts is becoming decidedly gentrified – withBritish young professionals and relatively well off European expats moving inalongside the older established Afro-Caribbean and white working classcommunity. Personally it's one of the most exciting and vibrant parts of Londonand a must see area for any visitor who wants to get a bit beyond the usualitinerary of tourist traps in the city centre. It's similar to Harlem in NewYork if you're familiar with that area.
I think part of its bad rapfrom the rest of the country and "middle England" comes with the factthat it has been the flashpoint of major urban riots (1981, 1985 and mostrecently 2011) but when these are not happening it's not a dangerous area andis completely safe for visitors.
Also it's known as thespiritual home of black Britain (again, kind of like a British Harlem). There'sstill a lot of casual racism in this country – because lots of black peoplelive there people assume it's super dangerous. In fact modern Brixton has manyother communities besides the black community – in fact it's one of London's (andpossibly the world's) most multicultural neighbourhoods.
Brixton market particularlyis a must visit for foodies – hundred of pop up restaurants serving amazingfood at v low prices. J
As Brixton is in south London however they speak it is going to be a 'south London accent' of course like anywhere else in London there is a mix of people from across the globe and therefore there will be many accents present. I haven't been for a few years, does anybody know if that guy with the sound system is still hanging around the entrance to the underground playing reggae music?
Random Girl, I don't think there is such a thing as a "south London accent". Brixton, like most multicultural areas in London, has literally dozens of languages and hundreds of dialects and accents.
But to try and answer your question, I think anyone born and raised in Brixton in the last 30 years, who was schooled there and lived there for most of their life, would have the standard, working-class, inner London accent/dialect. This is sometimes called "Jafaican" (i.e. fake Jamaican)... because it's a mix of the traditional Cockney accent/dialect of London, Jamaican Patois of the early 1950s immigrants and other influences too.
Some other people - particularly older people - will have a the standard Cockney accent of London.
Probably only a trained linguist or someone who'd grown up all their lives in London and was particularly sensitive to it would be able to distinguish it from the accent of other areas, such as Hackney (east London), or Brent (west London). People move around too much within London for distinct accent to develop.
Of course, many British people born and living in and around Brixton may have a more neutral middle-class Estuary accent, or even a posh accent. Remember that accent/dialect in Britain are a matter of social class as well as geography. That's even more true of London as it's so socially mixed.
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