Representation Of Ethnicity In Hotel Babylon clip.

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The first ethnicity we see in the scene is black people,the first character that we are introduced to is Benjamin, he looks very smart in his suit and tie and seems to be helpful and slightly reserved when he spots someone from his past, instantly we he seems to spot him he tries to walk away but fears it's to late and he has spotted him, this makes me think that Benjamin didn't want to be spotted by the other character.  From the dialogue we hear that Benjamin is very anxious and wants to split of from the conversation as he Say's that he must get back to the desk, the other character looks very informal as he is only wearing swimming shorts and has his hair in dreadlocks and stereotypical hairstyle for black people. The language that the other character uses is very much more relaxed and has lots of slang in it, in this instant we can see that the two black character's are binary opposites, though we can pick up that Benjamin used to be more like the other character but he has seemed to grow up and get a good job, unlike the other black character who still seems to think that Benjamin hasn't changed in 7 years. Benjamin is very on edge when he is with the other character like he isn't really proud of what he did in the past but doesn't want to be seen as weak to the other character because he still cares what he thinks, and he still wants to be respected by him. The music in the background has a very light beat which is very audible and makes the confrontation with Benjamin seem a bit more tense.


In the next scene we see two ethnicity portrayed, Japanese and European  people. 
We see two maids going into a customer's bedroom, the older of the two women seems to have done a striptease for the old Japanese man before as see explains how Mr Matsui pays more when there are more people stripping for him.
The cleaning staff  being European and female is also a stereotype, saying that because they chose to come to Britain the qualifications mean less so they have to except the more menial jobs.
As the camera enters the room we can see the Japanese man sitting on his bed ready for the maids, he doesn't talk at all except for saying "ho" we seems to say because he is Japanese he English isn't very good, the scene also works well as it plays off the stereotype that Japanese men are perverts. 
Mr Matsui is a overweight old Japanese man that wears glasses ,this is also a very stereotypical view of a Japanese man and if we look carefully in the shot we can see that his room is very tidy and the money is in two very neat piles this plays off another stereotype that Japanese people are very clean this isn't a bad stereotype but it's a stereotype non the less.
We can see by now that the two maids are being paid to strip for the man, this scene becomes more intense as the music comes on, a funky song with a very strong bass line for dancing to, by this time one of the maids has taken off her uniform and we can see that she is very lingerie specific for the task as it isn't your everyday underwear, it gives us another stereotype that because the women are in low paid jobs that they would do anything for money.


In the next scene we can see an Asian assistant, she enters the room quite cautiously, she is very polite and cooperative with the demands of 'Mr Taylor'. Mr Taylor is portrayed as a very angry and rude man, this is a age old stereotype of Old British men, not very nice to others and not being considerate enough to thank the person who just helped them.
The assistant in the scene doesn't like Mr Taylor as she comments on how may time that he has ran out of toilet paper, she knows that see has to be civil to the man but doesn't think that he deserves the respect that he is given.


In the final scene we are introduced to the cooking staff, we are told be for that the Italian chief has been working his way round all the kitchen staff and has slept with a co workers wife and made her leave him and move in with the Italian chief.
When we first see both chief's together we can see that they are wearing completely binary colours , black and white, this can be interpreted in a variety of ways like Th Italian chief is evil because he is wearing black and he has wronged the chief in white, it can also be seen as yin and yang how we need both for balance.
There are many stereotypes in this scene, like the Italian chief is portrayed as sneaky and a womaniser, and thinks more of himself because he is Italian. The English man is very large and fat, he also has a red face this is a stereotype of English males that the series uses to show us why the English chiefs wife had left him for a Italian guy. in the scene the Italian chief acts like everything is alright between him and the English chief but when the management staff leave we see there true colours and see another stereotype of how both Italian and English people can be very hot headed and willing to fight.


the characters to racist because it plays off our already present prejudices to enforce there story lines .