Hotel Babylon and Ethnicity

• The ethnicities are easily distinguishable because of the way they are separate to each other, like in the last scene of the video when they are eating.
• This scene also helps us tell that the different ethnic backgrounds have different interests, personalities, attitudes and behaviours. The fist two groups we see are being loud, talking in their own language etc. and then the camera pans to two black people who are sitting quietly and praying.
• Their ethnicity is shown as important in the way it disrupts their job and the way they stick together.
• The white british people are shown as the more powerful people in this clip, the police officers and the man from the immigration agency are white and they take away a black man by force.
• The other characters try to help the characters in danger by warning them that the immigration officer is in the building.
• This clip shows that the dominating ethnicity in a country has more power than those from other ethnic backgrounds. some use that power to help and some use it to control with authority.