Race and Ethnicity essay- Hotel Babylon

In the extract of Hotel Babylon, many different races and ethnicity's were portrayed, the first of which was a young jamaican man. He was portrayed as being a party animal as a party was the first thing he spoke about after seeing his friend whom he hadn't seen for seven years. This character used language such as 'bruv' and 'man' which gave him a type of gangster image. He also has his hair in dreadlocks, this is a stereotypical Jamaican style and adds to the exotic feel of the country.

The next characters we saw were two cleaners one of which was French, they were portrayed as being of a lower class, this can be assumed from the job that they had. When they went into the room they were asked to strip to get more money, they agreed and seemed to have done it before. This can be seen as the stereotype that they are seen as prostitutes. The man who offered them the money was asian, he was seen to be very wealthy and to have a well paid job. 

The man and women who seemed to own the hotel, or were managers of some part of the hotel, were both english. They were in control of the rest of the employees at Hotel Babylon and held some sort of power over them. They were seen to be of a higher class to everyone